An excerpt from Catherine Waldby’s essay “Destruction: Boundary Erotics and Refigurations of t
An excerpt from Catherine Waldby’s essay “Destruction: Boundary Erotics and Refigurations of the Heterosexual Male Body,” found in Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism, edited by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn (London: Routledge, 1995). The academic prose may be a little challenging, but the ideas are important. Waldby calls for a renegotiation of “power relationships and the ways that masculine and feminine bodies live these out.” This change involves the fulfillment of “certain shared fantasies about the receptive erotic potentials of the male body” (ie. anal pleasure and penetration), fantasies expressed in “images of the phallic woman,” the empowered woman who penetrates both a man’s anus and his spirit.Photo #2: The Phallic Woman (1994) by Eric Kroll, -- source link
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