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

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lower-level male wants and gets sexual intercourse. The upper-levelmale, denied what he really wants (intercourse), must fall back onsubstitutes, which accounts for the attention the upper-level malepays (relatively speaking, among males) to what women might calllovemaking— kissing, cunnilingus, fondling, and so on:T he very fact that upper level males fail to get what they wantin socio-sexual relations [this is deduced <strong>by</strong> Kinsey becausethey have lower rates of premarital and extramarital intercourse]would provide a psychologic explanation of their highdegree of erotic responsiveness to stimuli which fall short ofactual coitus. T he fact that the lower level male comes nearerhaving as much coitus as he wants would make him lesssusceptible to any stimulus except actual coitus. 53 [Italics mine]Kinsey then characterizes the coital behavior of the lower-level maleas sexual freedom. T he criteria Kinsey uses to determine sexualfreedom are quantity of sexual interactions that are coital anddegree of promiscuity (number of partners). It is a continuingtheme in Kinsey that “average frequencies of sexual outlet for thehuman male are distinctly below those which are normal amongsome other anthropoids and which would probably be normal in thehuman animal if there were no restrictions upon his sexualactivity. ” 54 Kinsey’s formulation of authentic male sexuality— hisspeculation, distinct from his stated goal of objectively describing,counting, and classifying actual sexual acts, but not acknowledgedas opinion or conjecture— is unequivocal:There seems to be no question but that the human malewould be promiscuous in his choice of sexual partnersthroughout the whole of his life if there were no socialrestrictions. This is the history of unrestrained human maleseverywhere. 55Kinsey considers women responsible for the unnatural socialrestrictions on men. He condemns social workers, women on paroleboards, mothers, schoolteachers, for controlling “moral codes,schedules for sex education, campaigns for law enforcement, and

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