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

confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the malewith sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproductionand care of the young. ” 14Men of the Right and men of the Left have an undying allegianceto prostitution as such, regardless of their theoretical relationship tomarriage. The Left sees the prostitute as the free, public woman ofsex, exciting because she flaunts it, because of her brazen availability.The Right sees in the prostitute the power of the badwoman of sex, the male’s use of her being his dirty little secret. Theold pornography industry was a right-wing industry: secret money,secret sin, secret sex, secret promiscuity, secret buying and sellingof women, secret profit, secret pleasure not only from sex but alsofrom the buying and selling. The new pornography industry is aleft-wing industry: promoted especially by the boys of the sixties assimple pleasure, lusty fun, public sex, the whore brought out of thebourgeois (sic) home into the streets for the democratic consumptionof all men; her freedom, her free sexuality, is as his whore—and shelikes it. It is her political will as well as her sexual will; it isliberation. The dirty little secret of the left-wing pornographyindustry is not sex but commerce.The new pornography industry is held, by leftist males, to beinherently radical. Sex is claimed by the Left as a leftist phenomenon;the trade in women is most of sex. The politics ofliberation are claimed as indigenous to the Left by the Left; centralto the politics of liberation is the mass-marketing of material thatdepicts women being used as whores. The pimps of pornographyare hailed by leftists as saviors and savants. Larry Flynt has beenproclaimed a savior of the counterculture, a working-class hero, andeven, in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times signed bydistinguished leftist literati, an “American Dissident” persecuted asSoviet dissidents are. Hugh Hefner is viewed as a pioneer of sexualfreedom who showed, in the words of columnist Max Lerner, “howthe legislating of sexuality could be fought, how the absurd antiplayand anti-pleasure ethic could be turned into a stylish hedonismand a lifeway which includes play and playfulness along with