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

underlined and given new significance: Simone’s orgasms afterMarcelle’s death wereincomparably more violent than before. These orgasms were asdifferent from normal climaxes as, say, the m irth of savageAfricans from that of Occidentals. In fact, though the savagesmay sometimes laugh as moderately as whites, they also havelong-lasting jags, with all parts of the body in violent release,and they go whirling willy-nilly, flailing their arms aboutwildly, shaking their bellies, necks, and chests, and chortlingand gulping horribly. 44This wild laughter is then again paralleled to Simone’s violentorgasms. T he escape with the crew of Negroes promises moresavage sexual experiences. T he promise is that more force will leadto more death that will be more exciting because the light/darksymbolism— suggested in an all-white environment by Simone andMarcelle (Simone dark, Marcelle blond, Simone dressed in blackstockings, Marcelle in white, and so forth)—will provide thecontext for conquest. In an all-white context, Marcelle was the pale,frail submissive who denied her harlot nature, which provokedSimone to express hers. In an all-white context and also in a whitesupremacistcontext, the dark one is the dangerous one. But in thewhite-supremacist context, the white one will win, the dark onewill be conquered: Simone is white, not black; she is the winner.T he challenge of savage sexuality in a black crew in service to awealthy English aristocrat provides a new context for conquest.Force leading to sex which inevitably means death takes on a newdimension, suggests to the colonializing sexual mentality wilder andwilder sexual possibilities. Conquest, the subterranean theme ofboth rape and romance, is carried in pornography, at some point ofsatiation, inevitably into the racial realm. T he death of one’s ownracial kind is not quite enough, and so the romanticization of deathwhich obscures the meaning of force permits the romanticization ofracial conquest and racial murder. Force, once perhaps abhorrent tothe intellectual in the realm of race, now has an entirely sexualsignificance which permits its expansion into race without challeng­