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

change. Dachau brought into the bedroom and celebrated, everyvile prison or dungeon brought into the bedroom and celebrated,police torture and thug mentality brought into the bedroom andcelebrated— men reveal themselves and all that matters to them inthese depictions of real history, plasticized and rarefied, representedas the common erotic stuff of male desire. And the pictures andstories lead right back to history— to peoples enslaved, maimed,murdered—because they show that, for men, the history of atrocitythey pretend to mourn is coherent and utterly intentional if oneviews it as rooted in male sexual obsession. Pornography revealsthat slavery, bondage, m urder, and maiming have been actssuffused with pleasure for those who committed them or whovicariously experienced the power expressed in them. Pornographyreveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing,hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in theprivacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutalityof male history. T he private world of sexual dominance that mendemand as their right and their freedom is the m irror image of thepublic world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and selfrighteouslydeplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that onefinds the meaning of male history.