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Authors: Andrea Dworkin
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sex object, Helen of Troy, will not be overlooked by the acute observer, is a “hot wet fuck tube —hot slit. ” Indeed, one must ask, in the world ofSuckfiction, who of us is not?
The overwhelming fact which emerges aboutSuckfiction is that it contains and expresses the traditional male fantasies about women. Helen and Carol differ little from O and Claire. Their needs can be articulated in precisely the same way: cock, lots of it, all of the time, rape, violation, cruelty. If only our needs were so simple. If only our needs had anything to do with it at all.
Men have always known, in that existential-accord-ing-to-Mailer way, that women not only need IT but want IT, rape-brand-whip orchestrated. It was always obvious to them —a woman's “virtue” is merely facade, her reluctance is merely tactic. What matters is that she wants to be fucked —she is defined by her need to be fucked. We find inSuckthese sacrosanct male fantasies applied with true counter-culture egalitarianism: to all beings “feminine, ” whether women or gay men. Projection has come home to roost and cock is crowing like never before —but, like the cult of cunt before it, the cult of cock is colored with the washes of unresolved guilt and pure sadism. The onus and hatred of male homosexuality is heavy inSuck —ugly, heavy, and ever present.
Suckhas in some ways aligned itself with the cause of gay liberation.Suck4printed the “Gay Guide to Europe, ” a list of gay clubs, bars, pissoirs, etc., to alleviate the chronic need for information felt by the traveling gay man.Suck6has a story entitled “A Week in the Fondle Park, ” in which a man extols the quantity of cock sucked in one idyllic week in Amsterdam’s central park, which had been turned over to longhaired dopers and freaks in the summer of 1971. But inSuck, as in the parent culture which maligns any deviation from the ole hetero norm, the hatred attached to the queer is very apparent.
“The Suction Game” is the story of two men, one dark-skinned, one light-skinned, one overt, one latent — a typical colonial situation, ripe for exploitation. The acknowledged (overt) queer has the typical misogynist point of view:
Carlos explained that the male body was nature’s perfection and how clean men were compared to women. 10
To the normally) self-enhancing John Wayne male, the above is self-evident and always has been. In the context of the homosexual encounter it has added significance. It reinforces the maleness of both partners. It makes the homosexual act an affirmation of manhood. The insecurities which a homosexual identity conjures up in our culture, however, are hardly resolved through the putting down of women. “Cocksucker” is a term of insult and abuse —it means queer. Yet it is obviously absurd for a man to believe that what is pleasurable to him when done by a woman is disgusting when done by a man. The distinction here is not so very subtle: the political meaning of the two acts, heterosexual fellatio and homosexual fellatio, is different. The former makes the man clearly the master —the woman kneels at the foot of the sheikh. The latter makes the manqueer— ours is not to reason why, or is it?
Carlos (overt, dark-skinned), having unzipped the hero’s pants, has started kissing his glorious equipment:
Here I was standing in this tiny YMCA room, naked as the day I was born, with a pretty boy queer, kneeling in front of me playing with my cock. The whole thing was sickening, but the worst part was that I was enjoying it.... Suddenly I didn’t give a fuck if he was queer. I just relaxed and surrendered to his sucking mouth. 11
The resultant orgasm is fantastic, mind-blowing, as aren’t they all inSuck.Yet the imminent slander is too much to bear. Being sucked by a queer is one thing. Reciprocity is something else. Could it be reciprocity that makes one queer?
He was a fucking queer but I wasn’t. If he had hot rock that was his problem not mine. He’ll
The overwhelming fact which emerges aboutSuckfiction is that it contains and expresses the traditional male fantasies about women. Helen and Carol differ little from O and Claire. Their needs can be articulated in precisely the same way: cock, lots of it, all of the time, rape, violation, cruelty. If only our needs were so simple. If only our needs had anything to do with it at all.
Men have always known, in that existential-accord-ing-to-Mailer way, that women not only need IT but want IT, rape-brand-whip orchestrated. It was always obvious to them —a woman's “virtue” is merely facade, her reluctance is merely tactic. What matters is that she wants to be fucked —she is defined by her need to be fucked. We find inSuckthese sacrosanct male fantasies applied with true counter-culture egalitarianism: to all beings “feminine, ” whether women or gay men. Projection has come home to roost and cock is crowing like never before —but, like the cult of cunt before it, the cult of cock is colored with the washes of unresolved guilt and pure sadism. The onus and hatred of male homosexuality is heavy inSuck —ugly, heavy, and ever present.
Suckhas in some ways aligned itself with the cause of gay liberation.Suck4printed the “Gay Guide to Europe, ” a list of gay clubs, bars, pissoirs, etc., to alleviate the chronic need for information felt by the traveling gay man.Suck6has a story entitled “A Week in the Fondle Park, ” in which a man extols the quantity of cock sucked in one idyllic week in Amsterdam’s central park, which had been turned over to longhaired dopers and freaks in the summer of 1971. But inSuck, as in the parent culture which maligns any deviation from the ole hetero norm, the hatred attached to the queer is very apparent.
“The Suction Game” is the story of two men, one dark-skinned, one light-skinned, one overt, one latent — a typical colonial situation, ripe for exploitation. The acknowledged (overt) queer has the typical misogynist point of view:
Carlos explained that the male body was nature’s perfection and how clean men were compared to women. 10
To the normally) self-enhancing John Wayne male, the above is self-evident and always has been. In the context of the homosexual encounter it has added significance. It reinforces the maleness of both partners. It makes the homosexual act an affirmation of manhood. The insecurities which a homosexual identity conjures up in our culture, however, are hardly resolved through the putting down of women. “Cocksucker” is a term of insult and abuse —it means queer. Yet it is obviously absurd for a man to believe that what is pleasurable to him when done by a woman is disgusting when done by a man. The distinction here is not so very subtle: the political meaning of the two acts, heterosexual fellatio and homosexual fellatio, is different. The former makes the man clearly the master —the woman kneels at the foot of the sheikh. The latter makes the manqueer— ours is not to reason why, or is it?
Carlos (overt, dark-skinned), having unzipped the hero’s pants, has started kissing his glorious equipment:
Here I was standing in this tiny YMCA room, naked as the day I was born, with a pretty boy queer, kneeling in front of me playing with my cock. The whole thing was sickening, but the worst part was that I was enjoying it.... Suddenly I didn’t give a fuck if he was queer. I just relaxed and surrendered to his sucking mouth. 11
The resultant orgasm is fantastic, mind-blowing, as aren’t they all inSuck.Yet the imminent slander is too much to bear. Being sucked by a queer is one thing. Reciprocity is something else. Could it be reciprocity that makes one queer?
He was a fucking queer but I wasn’t. If he had hot rock that was his problem not mine. He’ll
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