On his HBO talk show on Friday night, Bill Maher, defended Hollywood actor Armie Hammer who has been the subject of disturbing claims of cannibalism and abuse with multiple women.
I don't know if there's a larger percentage of men with a gynophagia fetish who are predatory misogynists or if it's just the extreme nature of the fantasy making the shitty chauvinist creeps go from just being that guy who demands feet pics on main into a full on wannabe-serial killer, but it seems like a lot of guys (though certainly not all) who produce gynophagia art or writing are actively sublimating a genuine, vicious hatred of women into their work. Actually, maybe that wording's a bit off, because it seems like in general both male and female writers are sublimating actual fears into the kink: male writers are turning fears about not being able to control and use women into stories where women's bodies are either literal commodities to be owned and consumed or are seized by force and consumed, where female writers are turning fears over having their bodies and sexualities commodified and controlled by men into stories where these fears are realized in a way that's so fantastical and extreme that it becomes paradoxically safe.
Though I guess I should add that that's in addition to the sort of basic "peril + sexy = double sexy" logic that's also behind a lot of horror movies having weird, horny tropes to them (and horror movies being considered good date movies) since one's brain doesn't really differentiate too well between the adrenaline and whatnot from fear/tension/vicarious danger and similar excitement from arousal, so pairing peril with explicitly sexualized content increases the effect of the latter while sort of sanitizing the effect of the former.
Fuck, I've been wanting to do a big "effortpost" marxist feminist analysis of erotic cannibalism as a bit for a long time, just to see if I could make such an absurd topic into a serious-and-academic sounding argument, but I keep forgetting.
I don't know if there's a larger percentage of men with a gynophagia fetish who are predatory misogynists or if it's just the extreme nature of the fantasy making the shitty chauvinist creeps go from just being that guy who demands feet pics on main into a full on wannabe-serial killer, but it seems like a lot of guys (though certainly not all) who produce gynophagia art or writing are actively sublimating a genuine, vicious hatred of women into their work. Actually, maybe that wording's a bit off, because it seems like in general both male and female writers are sublimating actual fears into the kink: male writers are turning fears about not being able to control and use women into stories where women's bodies are either literal commodities to be owned and consumed or are seized by force and consumed, where female writers are turning fears over having their bodies and sexualities commodified and controlled by men into stories where these fears are realized in a way that's so fantastical and extreme that it becomes paradoxically safe.
Though I guess I should add that that's in addition to the sort of basic "peril + sexy = double sexy" logic that's also behind a lot of horror movies having weird, horny tropes to them (and horror movies being considered good date movies) since one's brain doesn't really differentiate too well between the adrenaline and whatnot from fear/tension/vicarious danger and similar excitement from arousal, so pairing peril with explicitly sexualized content increases the effect of the latter while sort of sanitizing the effect of the former.
Fuck, I've been wanting to do a big "effortpost" marxist feminist analysis of erotic cannibalism as a bit for a long time, just to see if I could make such an absurd topic into a serious-and-academic sounding argument, but I keep forgetting.
I’d be down to read that effortpost
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