The Frenzy of the Visible (was Re: sex 'n' the flag 'n' stuff...)

digloria at mindspring.com digloria at mindspring.com
Thu Mar 25 04:41:07 PST 1999


yoshie asks


> What of the prevalence of Money Shots, which
>capture cocks ejaculating outside female bodies, so male consumers may be
>sure that they got their money's worth--the 'climactic' moment of male
>sexual melodrama. Now, at least two problems arise: (1) how do straight
>guys relate to cocks in the picture?; and (2) how do porn producers
>visualize and male porn consumers confirm the 'climactic' moment of female
>sexuality? What do porn producers/consumers do with the probability that
>female pleasures and orgasms evade the visual codes of pornographic
>representation?

i'd say that money shots are about about making it real, about filling her lack in response to the anxiety that this invokes and provokes, about reinscribing where it's *really* at, and about legitimating homoerotic desire for het men (i.e., it's okay to look at, admire, desire another man's cock as long as it's being used to reassert power over a woman/women.)

i'm not up on the lit here, and certainly not a systematic viewer of porn fliks, so maybe you know more yoshie, but it seems to me that, in het oriented porn, there is a 'cum for me baby' theme more prominent in fliks because of the aural dimension. it's still about mastery, about asserting authority and controlling her orgasm--possesing it.

indecently yours, kelley "The rest obsequate[d]"



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