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

sleep. Rod wakes to find Larry assfucking him. They shower. Theyblackmail Jules with threats of kidnapping charges and announcethat they are a team. On the way out of Jules’s office, Rod pinchesthe nipples of the secretary. She screams. Rod and Larry howl withlaughter. Larry was “the aggressor, the male member of ourunion. ” Rod was “proud to be his femme. ” At a cast party, Maryenters. Rod and Mary take a walk to his trailer. Mary undresses. Hewants her. She wants him. But again, he is soft, limp. He fallsasleep. Suddenly Larry and Mary are making love. Larry says helikes women after all. Mary says that she made Larry a man againand is sorry she had not been able to help Rod. Larry and Maryannounce they will marry. Rod feels nothing for either of them. Heis already thinking of “a young Negro lad. . . He wanted to fuckme. That was all that mattered. ” Rod admits “the truth. ” He ishomosexual. He “could only be happy loving men and being lovedby them. Who could ask for more? ” Finis.Throughout I Love a Laddie, the literal expression of male poweris in the intense, repeated use of the penis, which here resemblesthe mythical Hydra. The penis is central, whatever the act orenvironment. Degree of hardness and frequency of use signifypenile virility, nearly unlimited in the sexual scenarios described.The men in themselves or relative to each other are vehicles for thepenis. The penis is the central character in each story. Theemphasis is not so much on who does what to whom as it is on theperpetual motion of the penis, its efficacy in producing pleasure forits proud carrier and receiver. In the second vignette, Paul, thewealthy middle-aged man with the two boys, whose penile virilityis established beyond doubt, also uses a camera as if it were a penis.The camera becomes part of the sexual action. The camera is not asubstitute for the penis; rather, it is as if he had two. He chooseswhich penis to use. Taking a photograph becomes a form of sexualaction in itself, equal in significance to fucking or cocksucking,more mature in that in producing a collection of photographs, itproduces wealth.The penis causes pain, but the pain enhances the pleasure. It is asif the ability of the penis to cause pain were an intrinsic quality of