Jay Boyd’s Reviews > Pornography: Men Possessing Women > Status Update

"The camera is the penile presence, the viewer is the male who participates in the sexual action, which is not within the photograph but in the perception of it. The photograph dies not document lesbian lovemaking; in fact, it barely resembles it. . .The exposed ass is an emblem for the values in the photograph as a whole. The contact between the women does not exclude the male; it explicitly invites him." (47)

"In the second vignette, Paul, the wealthy middle-aged man. . .also uses a camera is if it were a penis. The camera becomes part of the sexual action. The camera is not a substitute for the penis; rather it is as if he had two. He chooses which penis to use. Taking a photograph becomes a form of sexual action in itself. . .in that in producing a collection of photographs, it produces wealth." (42)

"The power of sex, in male terms, is also funereal. Death permeates it. The male erotic trinity–sex, violence, and death–reigns supreme. She will be or she is dead. They did or will kill her. Everything that they do to or with her is violence." -pg. 30