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

us want you. Maybe we will tie you to a tree and start afire around you. ’H er nam e is Jayne Stamen. She is currently in jail. In1986, she hired three men to beat up her husband. Shewanted him to know what a beating felt like. He died. Shewas charged with second-degree m urder; convicted offirst-degree m anslaughter; sentenced to eight-and-a-halfto twenty-five years. She was also convicted of criminalsolicitation: in 1984 she asked some men to kill her husbandfor her, then reneged; she was sentenced on thecriminal solicitation charge to two-and-a-third to sevenyears. T he sentences are to run consecutively. She wastortured in her m arriage by a man consum ed by actingout pornography. He tied her up when he raped her; hebroke bones; he forced anal intercourse; he beat her m ercilessly;he penetrated her vagina with objects, “his rifle,or a long-necked wine decanter, or twelve-inch artificialrubber penises. ” He shaved the hair off her pubic areabecause he wanted, in his words, to “screw a baby’s cunt. ”He slept with a rifle and kept a knife by the bed; he wouldthreaten to cut her face with the knife if she didn’t act outthe pornography, and he would use the knife again if shewasn’t showing pleasure. He called her all the names:whore, slut, cunt, bitch. “He used to jerk him self off onmy chest while I was sleeping, or I would get woke up withhim coming in my face and then he’d urinate on m e. " Shetried to escape several times. He came after her arm edwith his rifle. She became addicted to alcohol and pills.“T he papers stated that I did n ’t report [the violence] tothe police. I did have the police at my home on severaloccasions. Twice on Long Island was for the gun threats,and once in Starrett City was also for the gun. T he rest ofthe times were for the beatings and throwing me out ofthe house. A few times the police helped me get away fromhim with my clothes and the boys. I went home to my11. See Public Hearings, Minneapolis, pp. bb-()7.