These complications cast aside, the man retreats to his room to be alone with his porn, enwrapped within its fantasies of “pure sex,” which is purely one-sided sex, unsullied by the presence of a self-willed, sensitive other. Sex with an object is so simple: there is no call for care or empathy or tenderness, no expectation of mutuality, no need for emotional connection or intimacy. An object resists nothing, so the man can do whatever he wants to it. As a partner, an object demands nothing of the man who uses it, so he can be wholly selfish in his pleasures. In the pornosexual mating of man and object, an object takes the place of a partner. It exists to serve a purpose and the pornographic image’s purpose is to provoke (male) sexual excitement, thereby to facilitate (male) sexual pleasure. Even when it does not eroticize violence and even when no woman or girl is wounded in its production, pornography degrades sexuality by diminishing sex from a meeting of persons to an encounter between a man – for men make up the larger part of porn’s audience – and an image. Gentlemen Prefer Porn/Dolls: A Spinifex Double Featureīy aurora linnea A Tokyo man amongst his dolls
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