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Good News, Everyone!

No, really.  It looks like the DSM-5 is finally going to break out paraphilia disorders (that would be us, folks) by whether or not they are consensual and harmful.  Short of going on live television and admitting that the entire DSM is a joke, that’s about as good an outcome for sexual freedom as could have been expected.

At the same time, there’s a study out that’s finally putting some serious pressure on the absurd logic of our sex offender registries, which treat public urination as equivalent to rape, etc.

I would like to think that both of these things signal trends towards more sexual tolerance, perhaps in the periphery of gay marriage’s recent momentum.

1 May 2013 • politics rape research futurama

Not just Egypt; the UK has played this game, too.  But not with white ladies, of course. prettynaughtythings: Apparently in Egypt you can’t be raped unless you are a virgin. Really?!?! Really!?!? And the woman interviewed said she submitted to the test on threat of electrocution. Never mind that some of these women could have been married. The very suggestion that only virgins or women who meet some kind of moral purity test can be raped is utterly vile and inhumanly disgusting. Out with one broken, corrupt regime and in with a new one. …a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice. “The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,” the general said… The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn’t later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities. “We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” the general said. “None of them were (virgins).”  (via Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters - CNN.com)

Not just Egypt; the UK has played this game, too.  But not with white ladies, of course.

prettynaughtythings:

Apparently in Egypt you can’t be raped unless you are a virgin. Really?!?! Really!?!? And the woman interviewed said she submitted to the test on threat of electrocution. Never mind that some of these women could have been married. The very suggestion that only virgins or women who meet some kind of moral purity test can be raped is utterly vile and inhumanly disgusting.

Out with one broken, corrupt regime and in with a new one.

…a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.

“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,” the general said…

The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn’t later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.

“We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” the general said. “None of them were (virgins).”

 (via Egyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters - CNN.com)

1 November 2011 • reblog: prettynaughtythings • 2010s egypt politics race rape torture virginity sculpture female

Daisy gets the brutality down succinctly.  (Note the nun: everything is better with nuns.) daisysub: Pirates? Pirates. After the captain has finished deflowering the prisoners, they’re handed over to the crew, who quickly [find] the most efficient way to get their cocks in. erectus: Four girls, eight guys.  Assembly line efficiency!

Daisy gets the brutality down succinctly.  (Note the nun: everything is better with nuns.)

daisysub:

Pirates? Pirates.

After the captain has finished deflowering the prisoners, they’re handed over to the crew, who quickly [find] the most efficient way to get their cocks in.

erectus:

Four girls, eight guys.  Assembly line efficiency!

3 October 2011 • reblog: erectus • pencil pirates rape spit-roast bondage nun stockings ponytail 2000s virginity

When the pirate genre meets BDSM porn, it tends to be very dark and harsh.  Whips, rape, torture. Also, as is the case with any narrow sub-genre of porn, it tends to be M/f.  Whereas in the last image we saw a bunch of pirate ladies…

When the pirate genre meets BDSM porn, it tends to be very dark and harsh.  Whips, rape, torture.

Also, as is the case with any narrow sub-genre of porn, it tends to be M/f.  Whereas in the last image we saw a bunch of pirate ladies…

12 July 2010 • collage pirate Mf naked sub female sub rape torture whipping whip weapons sword pencil painting pen and ink color ink comic crying collar chain rope bondage coffle CMNF soft media pubic hair

What MayMay said.  Here’s a few pictures of submissive penetrations. malesubmissionart: ….Although many people might have a knee-jerk reaction and assume that this man is attacking the woman, my first instinct is to believe that she is controlling him, moving him toward and away from her in motions she enjoys. The thought of being made to move for the pleasure of a partner is intensely arousing to me, and this image instantly triggers that arousal. Sadly, rape culture reactions overwhelm almost all public discourse about pornography. Heteronormative, pornographic depictions of sex are likely to trigger simple feelings of arousal. The leap to rape culture isn’t one that happens because of pornography but because of reactions to it, perhaps even more precisely to the specific overabundance of hegemonically skewed representations of what sex can be like. The crux of the matter is that intentionality does not follow from appearance. Especially in sex, people should be free to be what they feel, not what they look like. -maymay Update (July 28th, 2009): Sociorehab, the creator of this image, wrote in to me to say this: That’s our picture and I wanted to let you know that the assumptions you made were correct. I wasn’t in control. Her hand on my neck squeezed, pulled and pushed as she pleased. I could only give what she let me give. Thanks for letting us know, and thanks again for creating and sharing a beautiful picture. :) chagrin: (via biandbi, sociorehab)

What MayMay said.  Here’s a few pictures of submissive penetrations.

malesubmissionart:

….Although many people might have a knee-jerk reaction and assume that this man is attacking the woman, my first instinct is to believe that she is controlling him, moving him toward and away from her in motions she enjoys. The thought of being made to move for the pleasure of a partner is intensely arousing to me, and this image instantly triggers that arousal.

Sadly, rape culture reactions overwhelm almost all public discourse about pornography. Heteronormative, pornographic depictions of sex are likely to trigger simple feelings of arousal. The leap to rape culture isn’t one that happens because of pornography but because of reactions to it, perhaps even more precisely to the specific overabundance of hegemonically skewed representations of what sex can be like.

The crux of the matter is that intentionality does not follow from appearance. Especially in sex, people should be free to be what they feel, not what they look like.

-maymay

Update (July 28th, 2009): Sociorehab, the creator of this image, wrote in to me to say this:

That’s our picture and I wanted to let you know that the assumptions you made were correct. I wasn’t in control. Her hand on my neck squeezed, pulled and pushed as she pleased. I could only give what she let me give.

Thanks for letting us know, and thanks again for creating and sharing a beautiful picture. :)

chagrin:

(via biandbi, sociorehab)

3 July 2010 • ambiguity rape Fm vaginal sex breasts choking male sub naked sub nude submissive penetration photo 2000s

The “slave auction” scene from The Sheik, transmuted into a gambling scene.

The movie was enormously successful with women, but the story had been sliced up by the censors in some revealing ways.  First, the rape was gone, and a lot of the sheik’s brutality is gone, too.  Secondly, in order to get around anti-miscegenation laws, the sheik turns out to be secretly white(!)  Once again, the racial dynamics of Orientalism mutate to satisfy the audiences.  It got banned anyway, in some jurisdictions, but it was still popular enough that Orientalist tropes completely jumped the shark into the realm of subversion material.  

American men absolutely hated this movie, and especially hated Valentino.  It probably served as part of the death knell for soft media in kink—and in men’s fashion more generally.  Guys in 1921 did not want to vicariously imagine themselves wearing flowing linen robes and lots of jewelry….even if that meant having Agnes Ayers at their mercy.

23 June 2010 • orientalism video 1920s slave slavery sale gambling soft media Mf censorship race rape

The Orientalist slave fantasy reached prime time in 1919, with the publication of Edith Hull’s colossal best-seller, The Sheik, which basically invented the rape/romance novel genre (Gone with the Wind wasn’t until ‘36).  In 1921, it was made into a “photoplay” starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role, and he quickly became one of the first Hollywood sex symbols, with frequent reports of women screaming and fainting in the theaters.  (The book itself had sold so many copies that reviewers claimed that 2/3 of the women in America had read it.  Surely a lie, but…) The heroine of the novel, Diana, is a straw feminist tomboy who hates men, but it’s OK, she just needed to get abducted and made into the sex slave of a dashing Arab chieftain, and she got over it.  Here she is right after being told she’s going to be raped the first time: Terror, agonising, soul-shaking terror such as she had never imagined, took hold of her. The flaming light of desire burning in his eyes turned her sick and faint. Her body throbbed with the consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her. She understood his purpose with a horror that made each separate nerve in her system shrink against the understanding that had come to her under the consuming fire of his ardent gaze, and in the fierce embrace that was drawing her shaking limbs closer and closer against the man’s own pulsating body. She writhed in his arms as he crushed her to him in a sudden access of possessive passion. His head bent slowly down to her, his eyes burned deeper, and, held immovable, she endured the first kiss she had ever received. And the touch of his scorching lips, the clasp of his arms, the close union with his warm, strong body robbed her of all strength, of all power of resistance. With a great sob her eyes closed wearily, the hot mouth pressed on hers was like a narcotic, drugging her almost into insensibility. Numbly she felt him gather her high up into his arms, his lips still clinging closely, and carry her across the tent through curtains into an adjoining room. He laid her down on soft cushions. “Do not make me wait too long,” he whispered, and left her.

The Orientalist slave fantasy reached prime time in 1919, with the publication of Edith Hull’s colossal best-seller, The Sheik, which basically invented the rape/romance novel genre (Gone with the Wind wasn’t until ‘36).  In 1921, it was made into a “photoplay” starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role, and he quickly became one of the first Hollywood sex symbols, with frequent reports of women screaming and fainting in the theaters.  (The book itself had sold so many copies that reviewers claimed that 2/3 of the women in America had read it.  Surely a lie, but…)

The heroine of the novel, Diana, is a straw feminist tomboy who hates men, but it’s OK, she just needed to get abducted and made into the sex slave of a dashing Arab chieftain, and she got over it.  Here she is right after being told she’s going to be raped the first time:

Terror, agonising, soul-shaking terror such as she had never imagined, took hold of her. The flaming light of desire burning in his eyes turned her sick and faint. Her body throbbed with the consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her. She understood his purpose with a horror that made each separate nerve in her system shrink against the understanding that had come to her under the consuming fire of his ardent gaze, and in the fierce embrace that was drawing her shaking limbs closer and closer against the man’s own pulsating body. She writhed in his arms as he crushed her to him in a sudden access of possessive passion. His head bent slowly down to her, his eyes burned deeper, and, held immovable, she endured the first kiss she had ever received. And the touch of his scorching lips, the clasp of his arms, the close union with his warm, strong body robbed her of all strength, of all power of resistance.

With a great sob her eyes closed wearily, the hot mouth pressed on hers was like a narcotic, drugging her almost into insensibility. Numbly she felt him gather her high up into his arms, his lips still clinging closely, and carry her across the tent through curtains into an adjoining room. He laid her down on soft cushions. “Do not make me wait too long,” he whispered, and left her.

23 June 2010 • 1910s books photo The sheik orientalism Mf rape male soft media