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

her life, innocence demanding ignorance, in such a way that shecannot recognize or be conscious of it. Once attacked, she isaccused, and the idea determines the immediate course of her life.Indeed, in rape or incest cases, as in battery, the so-called victim isdistinguished from other females by her provocativeness, whichaccounts for her individual victimization, which is not victimizationbecause she provoked it. There are always those billions of otherwomen who were not raped or beaten at that particular time by thatparticular man. They were passed by, which is the evidence thatconvicts her. Something in her caused the assault— her sexuality, infact—and now she m ust convince strangers not only that it wasagainst her will but also that she did not like it: an indignity beyondimagining and in the male system nearly always impossible. Shecannot comprehend what she is up against when she claims that shedid not want it. She is up against the whole world of real male beliefabout her real nature, expressed most purely in pornography.But still, there is another idea, closer to the surface and in thatsense more superficial, that women are inhibited or have a low sexdrive or do not want or need sex. Perhaps this is a recognition,however perverse, that no one could possibly like and want whatmen do to women. This idea, also articulated as a universal truth,appears to contradict the idea that women are by nature whoreswho beg for it, want it, demand it. But in fact, it is the perfectcomplement. T he whore provokes because she wants to be forced(sex intrinsically defined as conquest). How does one have sex withthe real woman who so often expresses reluctance, aversion,boredom, refusal, disdain, or a desire to go back to school instead,especially if she is one’s wife, the woman over whom one has legalconjugal rights? O ne forces her. T he system is foolproof. T hewoman who does want it wants force. She expresses this desire forforce by resisting which provokes force which is what she wants.T he woman who does not want it must be forced. Once the womanwho does not want it has been forced, she is indistinguishable fromthe woman who resisted because she did want it. Male supremacy isdizzying in its unrelenting circularity.Kinsey is the sexual philosopher who claimed to quantify andthus accurately describe actual sexual behavior. He and his