Female pleasure, power and anatomy are still taboo

This commentary is coming from a subject I have been thinking about lately in regards to female nudity and pornography but in connection to our ideas about magick (sex magick or not): female pleasure and anatomy are still taboo, no matter how much men (and some women) believe the sex industry is subversive and sexual liberalism is empowering or even liberating. The confusion here is that more genital sexual freedom is confused with liberation from gender roles and actual political activism and social change.

As far as speech goes, we cannot talk about vaginas in politics; the word (as well as “vulva”) is taboo. On the other hand, men refer to women as “cunts” in porn, the only part they desire (yet they do not value women as human beings), reducing women to fuckholes, the gendered term intended as a slur to degrade. The clitoris is the only part whose sole function is pleasure, and yet it is the most neglected by men. It has been found that most women do not orgasm from PIV alone. Given the above, it makes sense to conclude that we are currently living in a woman-hating culture which raises them into suffering and masochism. Some laws have changed; the system, and people’s prejudices, have not. Here is the etymology behind the word “cunt.”

There’s something so fucked up about a worldview that has no problem at all associating lipstick with women, but has the biggest problem in the world associating a vagina with them.