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

contrast. The Anglo does more than fuck the woman; he touchesher, approaches her nipple, puts his hand on her thigh, sleepspeacefully while she—never having enough— masturbates, Comparedwith the Mexican male, he expresses a delicacy of feeling aswell as a delicacy of touch. This, indeed, is basic to racist sexualideology: the white male is the civilized male, the bearer of acivilized sexuality. T he darker male, the inferior male, has a brutesexual nature. Yet the white male is in Mexico, in a Mexican jail.T he power relationship between the two men puts the Mexican ontop: it is the white male who, without the woman present, isendangered by the brute sexuality of the Mexican. T he danger ismost clearly conveyed in the two-page photograph in which thewoman masturbates as the white male approaches her nipple; he isdown on his knees on the floor as she lies legs spread on the bed, hisass is prominently displayed, behind his ass is the sleepingpoliceman with his rifle upright beside him. T he white male, as thedelicate male, is the sexually endangered male. T he rifle is thephallic presence, near entry to the vulnerable ass of the white male.T he white male is captive; the Mexican male is captor. T hesexuality of the white male is depicted as superior in sensitivity.T he sexuality of the Mexican male is depicted as superior in termsof brute sexual force. T he racially degraded male is, in fact,consistently depicted in this fashion: his alleged sexual nature,being brute and thus bestial, is precisely what licenses violenceagainst him in a racist value system. His sexuality is a savagemasculinity, while the phallus of the white carries civilization to thedark places. This is the nexus of sex and race. If women reallyamount to nothing, are worth nothing, then the conquest of them—except for the momentary pleasure of it—means nothing, provesnothing. It is not sustaining. It cannot sustain a sense of masculinesuperiority because the conquest of nothing is nothing. But theconquest of other men, especially men with a more massive, morebrute sexuality, does amount to something. It is sustaining becausethe conquest of bigger, better cock is the ultimate conquest. Andhere one finds the bribe. T he racially degraded male collaborates inthe degradation of women— all women—because he is offered