gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) (10/17/90)
#<Andrea Dworkin is alleged to have written> a very appreciative review #of The Story of O. In article <1357@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Ed Falk) writes: >Ouch. That book is one of the most horribly brutal things I've ever >read. It's about a woman who's being systematically abused. You realize that the book was a fantasy, don't you? >Eventually her lover gives her as a gift to another man and the abuse >gets worse. Towards the end, she's branded with her new master's >monogram, leaving scars half an inch deep. The frightening thing is >that nothing's restraining her from getting up and walking away from >the situation -- she *chooses* to stay and take the abuse. And you disapprove her choice... Sometime down the road you may discover what Napoleon discovered in Spain: You just can't free people against their will. >Supposedly it was a woman who wrote it. The critics claim that it was written by a woman, and they give several good arguments. >Sometimes I think that the feminist definition of pornography vs. >erotica is more a matter of writing style than content. The definition is very simple: If the feminists enjoy it then it is erotica, but if I enjoy it then it is porno. Follow-up was set to alt.sex.bondage. [However, it doesn't belong there--AMBAR] Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu "Aside from pornography being deadly dull, it doesn't bother me. Now, present me with erotic *literature*..." -- Cindy Tittle