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

in the larger culture, also indicates virility, especially when awoman is tied to it naked instead of draped over it wearing anevening gown. The pornographic image explicates the advertisingimage, and the advertising image echoes the pornographic image.The power of sex is ultimately defined as the power of conquest.They hunted her down, captured, tied, stuffed, and mounted her.T he excitement is precisely in the nonconsensual character of theevent. The hunt, the ropes, the guns, show that anything done toher was or will be done against her will. Here again, the valuationof conquest as being natural—of nature, of man in nature, ofnatural man—is implicit in the visual and linguistic imagery.The power of sex, in male terms, is also funereal. Deathpermeates it. The male erotic trinity—sex, violence, and death—reigns supreme. She will be or is dead. They did or will kill her.Everything that they do to or with her is violence. Especiallyevocative is the phrase “stuffed and mounted her, ” suggesting as itdoes both sexual violation and embalming.Whip Chick, a book, has as its central conceit that power defined ascruelty resides in the woman, especially the feminist woman.Called variously “amazon” and “liberated woman, ” she says “Youmale chauvinist pig” as she grinds her spiked heels into his balls.She is as dangerous as anyone can be, her malice directed at thegenitals of the male, which she threatens to tear off with her barehands. She is a fantasy, as opposed to a symbol: the powerattributed to her nowhere resonates in the real world.In Whip Chick, Scott Healy, who has a big cock and is asuperstud, fucks Mrs. Alice Waverly in a motel. She thanks him.Alice and Scott are seen at the motel by Cora Hertzell, a professorat a local college. Alice is outraged that Cora, a teacher, is at themotel. She determines to rid the town of Cora. Scott’s nephewChris has a crush on Cora, his teacher. He thinks about how shemoves like a stripper, then he masturbates. He thinks he is too oldto masturbate but his image in a mirror seems to tell him that hecannot help it. Scott comes home and makes a T V dinner. SandraWaverly, Alice’s daughter, telephones for Chris. Sandra invites