![]() It contains cultural truth: men and women, grown now out of the fairy-tale landscape into the castles of erotic desire woman, her carnality adult and explicit, her role as victim adult and explicit, her guilt adult and explicit, her punishment lived out on her flesh, her end annihilation-death or complete submission. It is the collective scenario of master/slave. Literary pornography is the cultural scenario of male/female. Why, then, do we spend our money on it? Why, then, is it erotically stimulating for masses of men and women? Most literary pornography is easily describable: repetitious to the point of inducing catatonia, ill-conceived, simple-minded, brutal, and very ugly. From The Beautiful Flagellants of New York to Twelve Inches around the World, cheap-editioned, overpriced renditions of fucking, sucking, whipping, footlicking, gangbanging, etc., in all of their manifold varieties are available-whether in the supermarket or on the black market. It is a staple of the market place, and where it is illegal it flourishes and prices soar. ![]() Bookshop shelves are lined with pornography. ![]()
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