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

limited framework of male sexual values and ideas. Anais Nin triedto conform to the rules of the pornography-for-fast-money game,but dripped sensibility helplessly and foolishly. Most writers ofpornography are male. The female name on the cover of the book ispart of the package, an element of the fiction. It confirms men intheir fantasy that the eroticism of the female exists within thebounds of male sexual imperatives.How is male power served by Whip Chick? One would think thatmost of the sexual action in Whip Chick would be abhorrent to menwho presumably have everything to lose and nothing to gain by theportrayal of a woman driving her spiked heel into a man’s balls asbeing pleasurable for both male and female. But the resources ofmale power need not be thoroughly obvious to be effective. WhipChick is not a mistake.First of all, Whip Chick is not believable. The prose, the story, theaction, the dialogue, all are absurd and ridiculous. The portrayal ofmen as sexual victims is distinctly unreal, ludicrous in part becauseit scarcely has an analogue in the real world. The woman tied on thehood of the car had a symbolic reality: that valuation of women iscommonplace. Whip Chick is male fantasy, not rooted in reality, notrooted in the distribution of power as a social fact.Second, the men in Whip Chick are punished by women forfailures of masculinity: for being faggots or boys who wantMommy. Any loss of control by men over women will result in theloss of everything, all the kinds of male power that men should andmust have. The dangerous female, now called an amazon orliberated woman, is ever present, ready to take over if the male letsup in his cruelty at all. Should the purity of his fuck—its absolutemasculine integrity—be less than perfect, the bitch underneath willbecome castrator. A moment of immaturity, indecision, or gratitude(as when Chris thanks Sandra for suggesting that he intercepthis letter to Cora before it reaches her) will mean total and absolutehumiliation, not to mention penile mutilation.T hird, all the sexual action takes place in the realm of maledefinedsexuality. Cruelty is the essence of sexual action; fucking isthe most significant masculine act; the penis is the source and