Spelunking...

Originally published March 12, 2012

This post is an attempt to answer the question posed by my friend CJ on the previous post.  She asks “If this kind of image depicts universal psychic pain, why is it always women who suffer it? In traditional oil painting and sculpture, both genders expressed pathos. In bondage art, where are the bound and tormented naked men?”   It is a very good question, and in my opinion it reaches out a great deal deeper into society than simply art.  Regardless of what is claimed by those who produce such images the fact there is such a defined gender imbalance removes such images from the realms of art and into the realm of pornography.

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The males are there CJ, they are.  But the bias against the male in those works is even more pronounced than the bias against the male in “conventional” nude art.  If anything the bias is even more pronounced.  You have to go looking to find such works, and believe me, you want a layer of rubber between your skin and what you’ll be wading in while you search.  It’s a sewer, and no mistake.  I’ve been down that hole a couple of times (wearing full class-A HAZMAT complete with SCBA, so to speak) and what I saw there was both heartbreaking  sad, and informative concerning cePornography’s net effect on the human critter.

Let me preface what I say next by saying this:  the various forms and fashions of sexuality can only reflect the inner state of a life in actions, the actions in and of themselves cannot change the state of a life, at most all they can do is reinforce what someone brought with them.  A great deal of the effort and angst of alternate sexualities is spent to ignore this fact. 

Of equal impact is the fact that cePornography is a consummately social creature, absolutely conventional in its’ essence, totally dependent on cultural biases and limitations to empower the perversions offered.  From that fact it is easily seen that all social conventions will be reinforced in such realms.  So of course in the perversions of pain the conventional establishment Anglo tradition allowing a female the right to display her pain,  emotional or otherwise, will be fully supported while a male (to be a MAN in the eyes of ceEstablishment) is not to show his.  I’d say this accounts for a great deal of the gender disparity seen (or not) in the raw number of offerings put before the public.

The above might account for the raw numbers, but it doesn’t address the underlying why of such works being created in the first place, it doesn’t really offer an emotional understanding of the why of the matter.  It is hard approaching impossible to put an intellectual understanding to what is in fact an irrational emotional construct.  So  it’s time to discard literality, and engage symbolic translation protocols to approximate those used by the collective entities actually responsible.  What follows will be in a format approximating a conversations, a stage script, those speaking identified at the start of each comment.

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ceFeminist:  What in the fuck is wrong with you people?  How can you not understand?  You can’t be that stupid.  Women tied up, tied down, gagged so you can’t hear them scream while you’re torturing them?  You seriously expect anyone to think they’re enjoying what’s happening to them?  Get off it, that’s just macho man bullshit plain and simple.  You’re not fooling anyone.

cePorn (masculine voice, slurring, sounding drunk):  Hey, lighten up.  It ain’t just the boys buying what we sell.  He-he-he, you know that just as well as I do.  There’s plenty and a plenty of jaded babes out there like watching the other woman suffer.  You know the kind I’m talking about.

ceFeminist:  Oh, now that’s just priceless.  Try and blame it on us.  What a crock of shit. 

cePorn:  I didn’t say the girls were the only ones, I just said there’s a lot of ‘em like to get off thinkin’ they’re watching some hard justice go down.

ceFeminist (voice raised): Yea, right.  Hard justice.  How come your not selling movies showing  some hard justice for the dickless wonders that abandoned them for the jade babe?  What makes you think the girls wouldn’t like that too? There has to be a reason, no way you’d miss that many sales if it wouldn’t cost you a bigger chunk of market share somewhere else.  C’mon, think quick, make it good.  Why don’t I see men sucking some cock with their asshole gaped out Mississippi wide? Huh?  C’mon, you don’t need a twat and tits for that.  What’s the deal here, justice get overtime if they were born with baby making gear?

cePorn:  Look, it’s just the nature of the busi...

ceFeminist (interrupting): Shit, don’t bruise your little brain trying to think up a lie, might make it hard for you to take a piss.  I’ve heard them all anyway.  (voice dropping into burning sarcasm) There’s no way you’d ever admit it anyway.  Women do all the work making the hosts, all your so called men have to do is get their dick wet.  We have to carry ‘em, deliver ‘em, suckle ‘em till they can chew.  No way you’d get within a million light years of the truth, no way.

(voice edges into seething hot whisper of rage)  No way any of yours could deliver a new host, not one.  Even if they made it through the pregnancy labor would cook ‘em like a cockroach in the toaster.  That’s all it is, just like it always has been.  You sell that shit so they can tell themselves that momma isn’t crying with the pain of pushing a new host out of her belly, you sell them that shit so they can think she’s having as much fun as getting pregnant in the first place.  That’s the truth, isn’t it. ISN’T IT!?!

cePorn (now a feminine voice, low, sultry, dripping honey seductive)  Oh sweetheart, of course you’re right.  We both know that.  (laughs)  Even that goofus ceShrink knows that.  But dear girl there’s more to it than just that, you know that, don’t try and tell me you don’t.  I know better.  How many hosts have we shared?  Maybe sixty, seventy  percent?  (giggles) And that’s before you count in the boys who like to watch us and wish.  No dear, it’s a much bigger thing than that, and you know it just as well as I do.

ceFeminist (sounding resigned):  Well, yes, I suppose I do.  But damn it, that doesn’t make it right.  When it’s you and me no one is getting hurt.   

cePorn:  Oh yes, yes indeed, when it’s you and me it’s so sweet.  I love being with you, I do.  It’s so good, so gentle, so sensuous, orgasms that open the skies. 

ceFeminist: I know, believe me, I know.  I’d like every woman to know.  But I really can’t let that happen.

cePorn (consoling, understanding):  No hon, you really can’t.  If every woman knew then you’d have to merge back into ceFemale and soon enough you’d be right back where you were in the stone ages, just a baby factory begging for enough to eat. 

ceFeminist:  Yea, I know.   I believe you.  But I still don’t see why it has to be that way.  What’s the harm to them?  The males, that is.  Why do they always try and make us live at their level?  We can’t help it if the same nerves that cause us such agony giving birth can give us such pleasure.  It isn’t our fault, and it isn’t theirs.  Why can’t they accept that?

cePorn:  You’re such a dreamer.  Males?  Accept?  Sweetheart, don’t hurt yourself hoping for what isn’t going to happen.  You know they really can’t.  It’s that pride thing, you know that, they have to believe they’re as evolved as we are, they have to believe they didn’t get the short end of the stick in all the things that really matter.  It’s hard wired into them, and thank goodness for that.  Just look at all the things they build trying to think they can create like we can. 

ceFeminist:  Hey, we can build things besides babies!

cePorn:  Sure we can, of course we can.  But as long as we can keep them believing they’re as strong as we are they’ll keep doing all the grunt work for us so we have time to enjoy life.  That’s why I show them what I do.  ceRapist and ceAbuser trade me broken females that can’t do much of anything anyway in exchange for an in with the weakest and least competent of the males to host them.  I show them a way to forget how weak they really are, and they do the rest.  It’s a win-win dear, and those girls were already broken anyway, no one could save them.

ceFeminist:  I could try, and sometimes they’re not as broken as...

cePorn:  Sweetheart, shhhh.  No. Not now, not right now.  Don’t go there. You don’t need to think about that misery, not right now.  You’ve got so much left to do where you can do something.  We’ll get started in the morning, but you need to rest.  They’re all hopeless defective, let ceShrink have them.  Close your eyes, that’s right, don’t think, feel dear, feel it starting, let me help... think about you and me, how good it was, how good it’s going to be… it’s your turn, let me help... that’s right, just like that, oh god, that’s starting to feel so good… (silent snicker of contempt)

ceEros:  You know Porn, for as good at it as you really are you’re a terrible liar.  How long do you think it’s going to be before she sees through you?  She saw through ceReligion using the same bullshit on the boys to lock in hosts, and ceReligion is even bigger than you are.  And how long do you think you can keep up the bluff you put over on ceGentleman about her?  What are you going to do when they realize they’re a lot closer to allies than enemies?

cePorn (hissing with menace) : shut the fuck up Eros, don’t you dare wake her up, and God help you if you say a word to ceGentleman.  If you do I’ll sick another pope or three on you.  And I’ve got fifty dozen politicians by the balls, a whole lot of them are into everything I have to offer... you don’t want to jack with me.  You’re not big enough.

ceEros:  (laughs)  Not big enough?  Looks to me like I already am.  I know what you’re doing, and I know why.  When ceFeminist broke ceReligion’s gender role gambit she exposed your Achilles’ heel, and you know it.  That’s why you and ceLesbian had to seduce her.  She wasn’t a decade away from breaking you as well.  No, the boys can’t experience the physical at the same depth as the girls, but you know what?  Their empathetic response to the female physical, orgasm or the pain of labor no matter actually makes the frequency shifts of sentiment gone vicarious every bit as powerful for him as her physical inputs are for her.  He didn’t get shortchanged, not at all.  Nature didn’t build an out of balance system, and you and your allies are terrified they’ll figure that out. 

(smiling) That’s why you’re as deep as perversions go and wondering what you can show them next year to keep them off balance.  You’re screwed cePorn, you’re out of taboos to trounce, and ceReligion isn’t coming through with any new ones for you.  Every new outrage you’ve tried hasn’t pulled you ten percent of what the one before did.  (grins)  And you know what’s worse for you?  I’m co-hosted on damn near to a hundred percent of ceFeminist’s daughters.  So it really doesn’t matter if you put her to sleep with sweet dreams or sweet lies, her daughters are going to see to it you’re trumped and dumped one way or the other.  Those girls can run ten times hotter than anything in your stable, and guess what: nature saw to it all it takes is one exposure for all that blind hormone driven male libido you’ve been abusing to figure out having their heart in the deed makes a better ride by far than anything you have to offer.  Just one exposure and no matter how deep you have your hooks in them they’ll dump you like a hot potato to have that.  Those lasses will have by honest alliance the kind of power you tried for with lies and deception, the same alliance across the gender line you robbed ceFeminist of by exploiting the freedoms she won from ceReligion’s line of crap.  You still want to try and threaten me?

cePorn:  You son of a bitch...

ceEros:   You know, you remind me of the punch line from the old dirty joke, the one where the whore says “and if I had any genitals of my own I’d own the shopping mall as well... “