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

value to possession of the woman. The antagonism that counts inthe sexual sphere is the antagonism between male and male becauseit is between two real (that is, phallic) beings. A racist malehierarchy heightens this antagonism and further sexualizes themale-male interactions that take place over and through women’sbodies. This sexualization occurs both in men elevated and in mendemeaned by the racist system. But the elevated male tells a lie: heclaims that he is afraid that the brute sexuality of the raciallydegraded male will be used against “his” women. In fact, he isafraid that this sexuality will be used against him. This is themeaning of the pornographic depiction of the Anglo in a Mexicanjail, his ass exposed and highlighted next to the erect rifle of aMexican policeman—this depiction published in the United States,where the power relationship in reality is precisely the opposite.Since sexual force used against the white male is recognized asforce, it need only be suggested to provoke racial hatreds— one ofthe main functions of pornography since these hatreds are highlysexualized. To make the sexual tension pleasurable, a resolution isprovided. The woman is the resolution. The sexual use of theracially degraded female, common usage, allows the male viewer,whatever his background or ethnic values, to experience the malemalesexual antagonism not as anguish but as pleasure: she can befucked by both of them, used by both of them, because she begs forit, she cannot do without it. Her usage protects—in this case—thewhite male from violation by the Mexican male. Neither maleviolates her because she cannot do without it. She is not forced; shebegs for it.The feature is called “The Art of Dominating Women. ” It consistsof four black-and-white photographs and a “case history” with anintroduction by a “D r. ” The first photograph is a full page. A whitewoman, very white skin, dark hair, gagged, her wrists boundtogether by rope, hangs suspended by her bound wrists from a lightfixture. Her legs are spread. Each ankle is tied by rope to the thighof the same leg. She is wearing sheer black tights that cover the legs