instructional, and demonstrative of techniques for the achievement of orgasm, as a statement of criticism toward repressive sexual attitudes; as well as an expression of acceptance of sexual practices that are, while outside the traditionally-defined “mainstream,” are nonetheless enjoyed, experienced, and well within the bounds of the sexual preferences of a significant number of people in the United States and worldwide.[1]
Applicant’s works communicate a message that challenges the opposite message that is put forth by puritanical and repressive elements of society. Applicant’s choices are as much an act of political resistance as they are works of art and erotica.[2] Applicant’s publication challenges outdated, puritanical notions that are rife with the repressive intent of subjugating women by denying them expressions of messages designed to celebrate and affirm the power of female sexuality.[3] Some cultures engage in physical mutilation of girls in order to control the female orgasm, and thus to control women in general. Our culture, while perhaps more refined in its methods, seeks a no less ignoble goal. Fucking Machines is part of the counterweight to these
- ↑ For example, the "sybian," one of the "Fucking Machines" featured in the Applicant’s collection frequently appears on "The Howard Stern Show." On this show, Cameron Diaz, Jenna Jameson, and Carmen Electra, are well known celebrities who have opted to ride the Sybian while on-camera. See Howard Stern, The Girls of The Sybian, (photo gallery) found at http://www.howardstern.com/galleries.hs?g=37 last visited August 14, 2006; Meta Café, Carmen Electra Rides The Sybian For Howard Stern, (dialogue includes discussion of Cameron Diaz and Jenna Jameson riding the sybian on the show) found at http://tiny url.com/prryz last visited August 14, 2006. URL reduced from http://www.metacafe.com/watch/104724/carmen_electra_rides_the_sybian_for_howard_stern/ for convenience of the reader. Additionally, as of August 14, 2006, there were approximately 160,000 web pages noting the use of the Sybian on the Howard Stern show alone. See http://tiny url.com/f84y7 last visited August 14, 2006, and reduced from http://www.google.com/search?client=firefoxa&rls=org.mozilla%3AenUS%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=sybian+%22howard+stern%22&btnG=Google+Search.
- ↑ See generally, Karen D. Pyke, Class-Based Masculinities: The Interdependence of Gender, Class, & Interpersonal Power, 10 Gender & Soc'y 527 (1996) ("Conventional theoretical perspectives on power…view microlevel power practices as simply derivative of macrostructural inequalities and overlook how power in day-to-day interactions shapes broader structures of inequality."); Catharine A. Mackinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State 190–91 (1989) ("Privacy doctrine is most at home at home, the place that women experience the most force, in the family…. For women the measure of the intimacy has been the measure of the oppression…. This is why feminism has seen the personal as the political."); Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family 110–33 (1989) (discussing the close relationship between the supposedly distinct public and domestic spheres and the public/domestic distinction's impact on feminist politics and theory).
- ↑ C.f. Fuck Me Feminism, the Double-Edged Sword found at http://saucebox.almeidaisgod.com/?p=76
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