When the male humanreacts to hard porn scenes witharousal - the significance ofthe specific scenes activates arousal due to certain personal experiences/impulseswhichare projectedonto the dominated female on the screen/page. The mainemotions powering the intense arousal (when there is such) of the authentic sexual acts and the pornographic representations are anxietyand pain.
These are 'let out', withoutbeing felt as such, through
rituals which concern domination, submission, controlover life generally, and control/loss of
controlof specific bodilyfunctions usingfor arousal (ordisguising byarousal) the energy of
the oral stage and toilet trainingtraumas. the anxietyandpainof various other inner
conflicts/specific eventsinthe past. and their more sophisticated
derivates like disgust, shame, humiliation, etc.
Throughuse ofpornthe male is enabled
to savorthe suffering of a weakloser -'woman' - whichis placed in such position by the very structureof
patriarchal civilization, and the male uses its privilege to achieve arousal and ejaculation, evades
experiencing its ownmasochistic impulses, its own desire to be 'punished'
or 'fucked' it evades its feelings, thoughts and memories, whichdo not correspond to
its idealized version of itself. The specific real time sex orpornscenario influences corresponding types of
psyches, in which the traumas being utilized for arousal are the mostprominent in the
structuringof the character.
In the beginning of thischapter we asked some questions
concerning the impulses which we can now call BDSM and BF:
Are they inherent? Are they
inherited? Are they contagious? Are they 'good'? Are they 'evil'? Do they allow to maintain
some sort of sanity? Or are they forms of insanity themselves?
Now we can answer these questions - apart from 'are theyinherited' the answer to every other one is a firm 'yes'.
Conclusion
Within the context of this dissertation, contemporary 'hardporn' is a commercial
representationof varioususes of women by menfor arousal and ejaculation. These scenes are
used as masturbatory supplementsbymany malesand a reportedlyincreasing but still lower
amount of females. This use of womenby men is made possible
by, and reflects, the patriarchal structures ofour civilization, in which 'women'
are objects of use and exchange by'men', and the veryconcepts of 'women' and
'men' are defined by the latter.
Hard porn is legal inthose societies in which women have legal right equalor approximatingthose
of men, societies in which, at least on the levels below the very 'top'
of a given social scene, menand women compete. The
current analysis offers elements for a theoretical model for the functional explanation of consummation of hard porn.
Three different types of situations:
watching porn,
independent masturbation and real
- time sex are distinguishedbythe proportionsof 'perceived significance', 'personal
fantasies' and 'real - time sensoryinput
from the environment'. The fantasies generated by the masturbatingmale, as well the
scenes of pornfilms, influence the masturbating male
on the level of significance of
that whichis being perceived. When participating in real - time
sexual activity, the significance of the perceived act iscoupled with the direct sensoryinput
generated by the act. sometimes the significance of the act and the sensoryinput are not
enough to ensure the arousal of the male, and thenenhancing fantasies are
maintainedby a mental effort. In certain types of sexual act the 'magic
of the moment' ismaintained entirely byfantasizing, in others - the significance of
the act influences the psyche most - in still third, if
they do exist outside the books of Wilhelm Reichand tantrist manuals-
the direct sensoryinput is the mainexperience of bothparticipants.