Status Updates From Intercourse

Possession- sex is an annihilation and a death for men. It mirrors almost exactly the relationship between Christ and the Church where the imperiled and vulnerable one who dies does ultimately have authority over the other.

The first two pages of Communion she’s really feeling herself and her writing, you can tell. And she’s funny af

I’ve got no idea what to make of the Skinless chapter

…I told your ass I had to read the shit again. The other part of the story was clearer. Basically talking about sex as this merging of two skinless, boundaryless people. The guy got ugly and placed a box over his head. And He was very insecure… so he projects his insecurity, his need to be desirable onto her. Trapping her, forcing her, trying to force intimacy while not being vulnerable at all. its smth like that

…. was ehhh hard to follow for me with all the metaphors and grounding it in my personal experiences,. in the modern world. Basically what I got from it was a man believing that was exempt from the beatings of life or the system? so he projects the shame of his powerlessness onto a woman who survives without grief and tries to establish dominance onto her. However, she beats his ass so the rape failed… girl idfk

2nd chapter down 🎉 okay this chapter for sure needs a reread. I was kinda lost and the message wasn’t exactly made clear to me, but thats just me. Not Ms Andrea Dworkin. Whereas the first chapter basically spoke about a mans obsession with moral absolutism and externalizing his shame of his desire (moral impurity) onto women by dehumanizing, objectifying and make them the blame and the cause of it, this ch….