Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

the poisonous materials which are used in many lasers and in laserassociatedequipment. These potential dangers have to be balancedagainst the benefits to be gained from the use of lasers. ” 18 Mr.Ready, like the U . S. Navy in its report on the hazards of lasers, didnot anticipate Playboy. Perhaps in science and warfare one mustbalance dangers against benefits, but in pornography there is noviable argument against whatever works in exciting the male. Theimportance of pornography to the human male is counted in gold;danger to the female is counted in feathers. After all, the use of laserbeams to restrain and then apparently penetrate a woman is “arefreshing break from the home-grown variety” of pornography,and once the mechanic sees the photographs, “our car will—inexplicably—run that much better. ” Should one—inexplicably—argue that the use of the laser was both hazardous and gratuitous—and therefore too dangerous to be warranted—one would be wrong.It was only hazardous. It was not gratuitous.The laser beams promise burning. The taste of some Germanshas indeed run to the technological: ovens in which masses of Jewswere exterminated. There was no laser in Hitler’s time, but he andhis men pioneered the field of technologically proficient massextermination. The ethnic or racial identity of the model in thiscontext becomes clear: she is a Jewish physical type. A racial as wellas a sexual stereotype is exploited: she walks willingly into the oven.The technological dimension, according to the text, distinguishesthe photographs as German; the technological dimension distinguishedthe German slaughter of the Jews from all other massslaughters of the Jews. The technology used to kill is what made thenumbers possible. The ambition of the Germans to exterminate theJews was realized to such a staggering extent because of acommitment on the part of the Germans to a technology ofextermination. The mention of the Porsche—apparently gratuitous—which“inexplicably” functions better, conjures up theGerman transport of the Jew s. * She is the Jew, the willing victim:* Ferdinand Porsche and his son Ferry developed assorted tanks for Hitleras well as a champion racing car and the Volkswagen. The Porsches workedfor Krupp.