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

“hunted out of society as masculine. ’” 4 T he force of the hunt, theviolence intrinsic to it, is justified by the deviance of the onehunted.And so there is a woman, tied with black rope, hands chainedtogether at the wrists above her head, her body constrained by laserbeams that crisscross in front of and behind her body. She is “anexquisite volunteer. ” And so there is a woman, her ankles manacled,laser beams appearing to penetrate her vagina. T he laser cutsas well as burns. T he laser is used in surgery. T he laser functions asa knife. Vagina means sheath. She is “an exquisite volunteer. ” Shevolunteers to be what she is, what all women are: harlot andsubmissive in one, her presence and representation an affirmationand an echo of her essence as a woman—she wants it, they all do. Indescribing the laser, one pioneer in the field said that “[l]ight hasbecome something not only to look with, but also a palpable force tobe reckoned w ith. ’” 5 Used as a sadistic weapon against a woman inpornography, a laser cannot be regarded as a palpable force or anyforce at all because force has no reality when used against ametaphysical victim: she is always “an exquisite volunteer”—expressing her own free will and/or actualizing her own true nature.She wants it, they all do.T h e scene is a Mexican jail.First photograph, two full pages: A Mexican policeman holds arifle butt in the back of a Mexican woman. T he rifle butt pushes herup against the bars of a cell. An Anglo man in the cell is holding thewoman around the waist with one hand, lifting her T -shirt to revealher breasts with the other.Second photograph, one full page: T he woman is on her knees.H er denim shorts are pulled down to her ankles. H er T -shirt israised above her breasts. H er hands are brought together as if inprayer. T he policeman is sitting, his uniform open to reveal a hairychest, balls, and semierect cock. In one hand he holds the keys tothe jail cell. W ith the other hand, he points to his penis.T hird photograph, one full page: T h e woman is supportingherself on her hands, she is on all fours except that her knees are