Random late-night thought...
Jan. 29th, 2010 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreams(...okay, I can't even type this without a "Jesus, you know I don't believe these things, I'm just recognizing them, right?" disclaimer. Consider yourself disclaimed.)
Given the virgin/whore dichotomy, and the cultural conceit that male/female intercourse is the only real Sex(TM)[1], how much of the appeal of the titillesbian is that she's teasing in a way that makes it clear that she's sexually active without actually having Sex(TM)? She has a sexual enthusiasm that the Virgin lacks, but isn't really being filthy the way a Whore would be...
Flipside, how much of it is the fact that she's doing it expressly to please the viewers and thus is catering to them rather than doing anything that might be considered a threatening expression of her own agency?
God. I'm gonna depress myself.
(Don't mind me, I ran off a character analysis about a guy who has just a bit of a tendancy to idealize his female SO, and random bits are floating around.)
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[1] Not that it's the only cultural conceit about what counts as real sex (or, more to the point, what counts as not having had real sex. Sweet bleeding Christ, if I trip over one more instance of the idealized virginity-proving hymen... Anyway.
Given the virgin/whore dichotomy, and the cultural conceit that male/female intercourse is the only real Sex(TM)[1], how much of the appeal of the titillesbian is that she's teasing in a way that makes it clear that she's sexually active without actually having Sex(TM)? She has a sexual enthusiasm that the Virgin lacks, but isn't really being filthy the way a Whore would be...
Flipside, how much of it is the fact that she's doing it expressly to please the viewers and thus is catering to them rather than doing anything that might be considered a threatening expression of her own agency?
God. I'm gonna depress myself.
(Don't mind me, I ran off a character analysis about a guy who has just a bit of a tendancy to idealize his female SO, and random bits are floating around.)
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[1] Not that it's the only cultural conceit about what counts as real sex (or, more to the point, what counts as not having had real sex. Sweet bleeding Christ, if I trip over one more instance of the idealized virginity-proving hymen... Anyway.
