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

Lesbians are in each vignette. In the first, Dave fucks the hustlerfor pay to amuse a group of grotesque lesbians. In the second, Paulbeats the two lesbians who invade his masculine territory; and it ison sighting their boat at the end that he and the boys begin tocontemplate fucking “female assholes. ” In the third, Mary is firstcalled a lesbian by Larry, in his first heterosexual incarnation,because she would not allow him to fuck her in a past encounter.She admits her lesbian experiences to Rod and also tells him thatshe does not often allow a man to fuck her. Throughout, claims aremade, explicitly and by inference, for the superiority of male-malesex, and it is no exaggeration to say that a particular hatred oflesbians is very notable in all three vignettes. Lesbians arecharacterized as manipulators and controllers of men, invaders ofmale domain, or dangerous adversaries who can take a man from aman if so disposed.Women in general are sources of sexual arousal within thevignettes and, apparently, for the reader as well. Within thevignettes, the heterosexual use of women is invoked to seduce boys;the heterosexual presence of women (women turned out to pleasemen) is titillating; the epithets used to name women are sexual innature, insulting, degrading, violent, utterly contemptuous. Garry,the manager of the hotel, wears a negligee, but this does not makehim feminine—his penile strength is endlessly celebrated; rather,the negligee evokes the feminine in the mind of the reader. Thisevocation of the feminine is constantly exploited to emphasize bycontrast the extreme masculinity of the men who worship cock.None of the men is really portrayed as feminine, despite occasionaldisdainful references to mannerisms or descriptions of a male beingfucked “like a girl. ” Without the presence of the female, masculinitycannot be realized, even among men who exclusively want eachother; so the female is conjured up, not just to haunt or threaten,but to confirm the real superiority of the male in the mind of thereader. In an interview in the Gay Community News, gay activist andwriter Allen Young described and interpreted a photograph thathas, as part of its composition, this same sort of heterosexualreference: