Female Sexual Fantasies
By S. Kalidas
The male establishment, having effectively
controlled the woman's imagination for centuries, has shaped her fantasies to
conform to its own rigid parameters
No,
they do not surf porn sites, 29 per cent hold that pornography is morally
wrong, 82 per cent have never masturbated and only 24 per cent admit to
having sex. Thirty-five years after feminists burnt their bras in the western
world, the single Indian woman could well be the prototype for Germaine
Greer's Female Eunuch looking back in anger. Bipasha Basu and Mallika Sherawat notwithstanding, our seductive Menakas and Urvashis are definitely not wannabe Madonnas. The latest readings of sexual iconographies show that even in the West, the "new woman" by proclaiming sexual autonomy has only fuelled male fears by becoming an emasculating temptress or, as veteran art historian Bram Dijkstra puts it in his Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil, "the femme fatale in search of the perpetually tumescent male". So trying to map the single Indian woman's realm of sexual fantasy is probably like chasing a chimera created mainly by a masochistic male mindset out to beguile or punish his own penis. After all, we keep hearing that it has a mind of its own. Oh yeah, the consort-killing Alpha Female is a concept deeply denied in any patriarchal paradise. In |
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