Fabtasmagoria

“like all Normal Women, had been trained to understand male love as near constant sexual harassment, the battling of insistent, relentless paws,”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Normal Women

“Expectations and limits communicated clearly, delivered to the customer’s satisfaction. Everything friendly. Everything reasonable. The fair contract of an industry that’s been fine-tuning itself since 2400 BCE.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Normal Women

“Prostitution. The most basic supply and demand system baked into just about every human body on the planet: the intense male drive to, not procreate, but ejaculate—a distinction that must be noted, that men want to fuck whether fertilization is possible or not—and women, lucky women, have the greatest number of holes to supply this demand. Trade built right into her biology, pure profit for the penetrated, capitalism at work! Or at the very least the exchange of goods and services, a function of women’s very bodies!”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Normal Women

“It’s not sex that men are after, Dani. It’s the fucking break.” She lit the cigarette, took in the confusion on Dani’s face, and laughed a plume of smoke between them. “When the involuntary systems required to ejaculate are engaged—the endocrine system, for example, releasing the necessary chemicals to prepare for orgasm—it’s the only time that many men are able to experience vulnerability. Men have been trained, by fathers who want to make them strong, mothers who are scared to make them weak, to police themselves. Relentlessly. To bludgeon their feelings, their ability to really connect with other people. Their humanity.”
― Ainslie Hogarth, Normal Women