http://azaz-al.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] azaz-al.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sophiaserpentia 2005-04-27 07:41 pm (UTC)

When I was 16, I read my first written porn novel. A boy I knew, a friend of mine, let me read it, and he assured me that "even nice boys" read this stuff. From beginning to end, the book was filled with scenes of rape and torture. And the primary female character who gets raped over and over again enjoys it, of course. It's the only way she can feel sexually liberated.
I've since seen many other little porn novels like this, both in print and on line, and they are all eerily the same - virgins being raped and learning to enjoy it, smart uppity career women being raped and learning to enjoy it, college girls being raped and learning to enjoy it, etc. Except for the ones in which the female character is a horrible manipulative voracious person who gets off on degrading men (although they are usually men who are shown to be "inferior" in some way - skinny, foreign, young, etc). She usually gets a comeuppance by the end of the novel though, by a "real man".
Perhaps the Lyndie England story was just a real life story such as this - domineering (bad) woman gets off on punishing inferior (foreign brown) men, but eventually gets put in her place by Real Men (US Miitary tribunal).

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