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

ing, or even alerting, conscience. The acceptance of force in thesexual realm allows its extension into the racial realm because one isdealing with metaphysical sexual truths, which race does notchange and in relation to which justice is both irrelevant andridiculous. A conscience calloused with regard to force in sex isinevitably rendered insensible to racist force as well.And cruelty is an idea in practice.Antonin Artaud, Collected WorksWoman is made to submit to man and to endure eveninjustice at his hands.Jean-Jacques Rousseau, EmileAll the women who copulate to keep peace in thehouse are the victims of rape. All our grandmotherswho just “let it happen” were essentially force-fuckedall their lives.Suzanne Br0gger, Deliver Us from LoveThe idea of the woman as sexual provocateur or harlot, soconsistently postulated in pornography as the first principle of sex,is not, it will be argued, really commonplace or believed. The ideathat women do not like or need sex is stronger. Too manyheadaches over too many centuries have damaged the credibility ofboth the pornographers and like-minded philosophers of sex. Yes,the idea of the woman as sexual provocateur may rise like themythical phoenix in rape cases. It may magically manifest in incestcases, where the female who wants it is a prepubescent child. T owomen, the sudden appearance of this idea when applied tothemselves is always incredible and inexplicable, especially becausemost women encounter the power of this idea when it is they whohave been physically abused and then are accused and condemned.Before the woman is actually assaulted, the idea has set limits onher life: she is always trying to retain the status of innocent, onewho is not forced because she did not provoke it. But the idea limits