Pornography and silence: Culture's revenge against nature
Susan Griffin
Language: English
Pages: 277
ISBN: 0060116471
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First Edition Hardcover (1981) in Very Good Condition. Dust Jackst shows considerable amount of wear along the edges, some scuffing and two tears of the cover. However, the actual book is very clean & unmarked, there is only one defect in the text: page 111 has a pinhead-size tear along the bottom of the page. Spine is firm. Despite the condition of the Dust Jacket, this is a nice clean copy. The Classic 1981 highly original, daring work, covering a wide array of disparate material such as: technical manuals, gynecology texts, early theologians statements, annals of American exploration, office manuals, poetry, dreams, etc. A book that explores ritual, science, history and imagination calling upon memory and mutilation and female anger, a very moving book. Prompt shipping with a Free Delivery Confirmation.
pinups, has a series of pinups with animals: a woman smiling serenely while an anteater performs cunnilingus on her, a woman penetrated by a kangaroo, a nude woman on the back of a walrus. In a series of offset prints by Mario Tauzin, a woman, the inevitable finger in her mouth, raises her leg to a fox terrier. In a contemporary painting by Yves Milet, a cat looks on while a man makes love to a woman, as in an anonymous eighteenth-century engraving in which a dog looks on and a cat runs from
enacted). The woman who is raped is often accused of perjury in a courtroom. Her word is not believed. Moreover, part of the defense of a man accused of rape has been to accuse a woman of being a "whore," of being licentious or amoral. Even a woman who has been raped but who has not gone through a rape trial feels ashamed of what has happened to her, as if this violence against her revealed something of her own nature. act. In the same way, as the pornographer himself ritually murders his own
therefore the actual increase in rape was hidden. And alongside his data, another study can be produced which shows that in a county in Australia where pornography was introduced, sexual crimes increased significantly. But let us momentarily leave off this statistical debate and descend to another level of the mind. What is the subtext of this speech the pornographer gives us? Underneath his "reasoning," what are his reasons? Catharsis. Catharsis, he implies in a grim voice, saves us. W e r e
them can be " e l i m i n a t e d " over the telephone when they reveal their height and weight. Another applicant is rejected because her " b u s t l i n e " is not " f i r m " enough for the Playboy aesthetic. O n e agency keeps a special catalogue of the names of women with large breasts, which they call a "tit rag." A former pornographic model tells us that while she worked in these films she had to stay away from the sun to avoid tan marks, and worry about every scar and wrinkle. And it is
chauvinist mind is a body without a spirit, this dark self is also nature without a capacity for culture. T h e r e f o r e the other has a kind of passivity that the chauvinist mind supposes nature to have. A woman is docile. A black man is lazy. Neither has the ingenuity and virtue necessary to create culture. For example, Alfred Rosenberg, the official anti-Semitic ideologist of the Third Reich, tells us that the Jew went into trade because he did not want to work. For the same reason, the