King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes;Stephanie Benson

Author:Virginie Despentes;Stephanie Benson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Science, French, General, Gender Studies, Authors, Biography & Autobiography, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism
ISBN: 9781558616578
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

This particular image of the prostitute that we so love to display-stripped of all her rights, deprived of her independence and her capacity to decide-has several functions. Above all, to show heterosexual men who quite fancy a whore how low they will have to stoop. They too are thus brought back toward marriage, toward the family unit: everyone back home. It's also a way of reminding men that their sexuality is necessarily monstrous, that it creates victims and destroys lives. Because masculine sexuality must remain criminalized, dangerous, antisocial, and threatening. This is not an inherent truth, it's a cultural construction. When whores are prevented from working in decent conditions, women are not the only ones being targeted, men's sexuality is also being controlled. Having a relaxed heterosexual fuck when they feel like it mustn't be too easy or pleasant. Their sexuality must remain a problem. Another double bind: in our cities all images arouse desire, but its consummation must remain problematic, guilt-inducing.

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