By Clarissa Smith
We often think about girls because the sufferers of pornography instead of its shoppers. no matter if showing in movies, peering provocatively from the pages of magazines, or posing on specific Web-sites, ladies are thought of the dehumanized gadgets of unseen lascivious male audience. yet in her arguable new e-book One for the Girls!, Clarissa Smith debunks this delusion and demanding situations girls to learn, watch, and luxuriate in pornography all alone phrases. targeting the British journal For Women, Smith seems to be at its readers’ responses to male pinups and erotica and explores the intricacies of women’s particular reactions to pornography.
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To register, at least, that the woman is not white, that lasers have military uses and can be extremely dangerous, that the images are of German origin and that the technological element is significant as an instrument of death. Connections then need to be made across time, acquiring cumulative evidence of historical and racist/sexist ideologies, in order to produce a sadistic pleasure in this particular form of sexual torture. The process is still not complete. The pleasure needs to be accompanied by the disavowal of man’s natural sadism and the transference of this fantasy on to the woman in the image and all women such that her/their victim status is effaced.
Such findings point to more than the problematic celebration of transgressive activity. As Juffer argues In some ways, we are no better off with transgression as a normative value than we were with the nuclear family or the missionary position. qxd 7/2/07 16:50 Page 27 INTRODUCTION | presumed reader’s ability to violate gendered and sexualised norms. Using transgression as the standard of interpretation, one could easily dismiss much … erotica… as co-opted, reinforcing gendered norms and essentialist notions of female sexuality.
My investigation of the textual formation of the magazine is derived from the discernable patterns and themes within readers’ talk. By approaching the magazine as multi-voiced, I offer an analysis of the magazine which focuses not on identification or persuasion18 but on dialogue between text and reader, specifically a dialogue on, and of, female sexual desire. My interview material suggests that the function of the magazine could be sexually arousing for these women in very immediate ways. However, it also enabled more long-term personal explorations of the individual’s notion of their own sexual identity and the realities and meanings of sexual experience for women as an identifiable group.