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

sexual nature. N o woman of any other race bears this specificburden in this country. In no other woman is skin sex, cunt in andof itself—her essence, her offense. This meaning of the blackwoman's skin is revealed in the historical usage of her, even as itdeveloped from the historical usage of her. This valuation of theblack woman is real, especially vivid in urban areas where she isused as a street whore extravagantly and without conscience.Poverty forces her; but it is the sexual valuation of her skin thatpredetermines her poverty and permits the simple, righteous use ofher as a whore.How, then, does one fight racism and jerk off to it at the sametime? T he Left cannot have its whores and its politics too. T heimperial United States cannot maintain its racist system without itsblack whores, its bottom, the carnal underclass. T he sexualizationof race within a racist system is a prime purpose and consequence ofpornography. In using the black woman, pornography depicts thewhore by depicting her skin; in using the pornography, men spit onher sex and her skin. Here the relationship of sex and death couldnot be clearer: this sexual use of the black woman is the death offreedom, the death of justice, the death of equality.G e n a C o re a : Are you saying that some doctorsare now feeling that in order to preserve the birthcanal, they should do cesarean sections?Dr. H e r b e r t R atn er* . There are some doctorswho have taken that position—that this is an improvementon nature. I think that, deep down, this isthe way doctors are really thinking, although theydon’t articulate it. They somehow think they arepreserving the birth canal, not only claiming that itprotects against later pathology like cystocele andprolapse, which has never really been demonstrated—butthey also think, though they probablydon’t articulate it, they really think it’s a contributionto lovemaking.. . . Deep down, the American physicianthinks he’s doing a woman a favor in preservingher vagina for sexual activities. He can’t sew back the