Archive for December, 2007

Patriarchal Pornography Done Messed up the Cake!

Ariela Haro von Mogel December 4th, 2007

Men, in pretty much all societies, are handed “all things sexual” on a silver platter, while women have to use their imaginations and come up with their own corny sex fantasies. Heterosexual men are given a disgusting plethora of pornography to which they have relatively free access to. They can visit prostitutes of the opposite gender who are there expressly for them. They visit strip clubs when their heart so desires. And, if that wasn’t enough, they can see women personified as sex incarnate everywhere in our culture – from television, movies, books, and advertisements. Women, on the other hand, are given the damn crumbs of the cake where it concerns their sexual fantasies. We don’t have sexual fantasies or desires, because we are the sexual fantasies and the desired. Continue Reading »