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

getting it up for the hot-blooded senorita, but he’s a mite greedy.Finally, he O D ’s on lust (and tequila). ” T he boyfriend "has had towatch and now he’s a little greedy himself. ” T he moral of the storyis that “[a] spell in jail doesn’t seem such a terrible fate after all. ”Everyone’s skin is approximately the same color, a light brown.Consuela and the policeman have black hair. T he policeman has ablack mustache. T he boyfriend has lighter hair, still brown, and hetoo has a mustache with stubble making a dark, shadowy beard.Consuela’s lips are painted a glossy pinkish red, her nails are aduller red, her vulva is pink. She wears a bright red flower behindone ear. Consuela’s facial expressions indicate rapture, except in thephotograph in which she is being fucked in the ass by thepoliceman— there her expression indicates pain and rapture. H erboyfriend’s expressions indicate rapture. T he policeman’s face ishard and indifferent. One never sees his eyes. They are alwayseither blocked by the visor on his policeman’s cap, which he wearsthroughout, or they are closed. Consuela is “the hot-bloodedsenorita, ” the ethnic slur cast so as to be both specific (she isMexican) and evocative (she is the hot-blooded Latin or Hispanicwoman, the hot woman of the south, Carmen Miranda or D. H .Lawrence’s mythic Etruscan female). She is the woman sexed bythe climate. T he color of her skin signals the climate. T he climatesignals the color of her skin. T he text refers to “Siesta tim e” and“the sticky heat” and the cockroaches in the cell, so that the heat ofthe climate is part of the sexual imagery. T he heat of the climateheats the blood of “the hot-blooded senorita, ” heats her skin, heatsher sex. She happily offers herself to the policeman because shem ust be fucked by her boyfriend. In the Anglo-Amerikan sexuallexicon, the Latin or Hispanic woman is the woman who cannot dowithout it. She begs for it. W ith Mexicans and Puerto Ricansamong the poorest of the poor in the United States and withMexicans particularly despised and exploited as aliens, the photographshave a cruel immediacy. T he depiction of “the hot-bloodedsenorita” who is willing to do anything— even to submit sexually toone of her own kind— in order to be fucked by her Anglo boyfriendembodies an imperial malice. She is used by the Mexican policeman