ShaktiSama
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The female viewpoint tends to be absent or discouraged in all Western art, but especially art of erotic subjects. As one of the earlier posters pointed out, this is also true of porn for other female sexual viewpoints other than dominance. Porn of female submissives is rarely FOR female submissives--if you want to experience porn that is FOR female submissives, BY female submissives, you need to read a romance novel. So it should be no surprise that porn OF female dominants is rarely FOR female dominants. Why is this? Pretty simple: women don't make the art. And until they do, absolutely nothing will ever, ever change. This unfortunately is not something that you can just order some man to do for you and have it accomplished--expressing your personal point of view through art is not like doing the dishes, you can't just pawn it off as an unwelcome chore. Men can express fear/hatred of female power in their artwork, or fantasy/desire to be subjected to female power in their artwork, but they cannot express the power itself--because they don't have it, will never have it, and have no real subjective experience of it. You can try to dictate your subjective viewpoint to any man, no matter how sensitive and well-meaning, for a lifetime--but you'll accomplish more in five minutes by picking up the camera yourself. Women already tend to do this in media that take very little expense to master, like writing; female erotica writers make a much larger contribution than female artists in photography or film. Female writers can spend a great deal of time mastering their craft, just as cinematographers do, but they don't have to do it in a school setting or shell out for expensive equipment--all you need to write is a piece of paper and a 10-cent pencil. Until women stop being intimidated by the price of a video camera or the responsibility of controlling even the simplest film set, they won't be able to express their viewpoint in that media. As to who pays for what...? The marketplace is also a problem, but I doubt it would be a problem for very long. It's simply a case in which women would have to create their own market for their product and let their customers find them. Thanks to the Internet, finding an audience of thousands or millions is no longer really difficult, even for "small niche" porn. As the OP points out, there is a hell of a lot of grousing on this forum about the unrealistic, unerotic, dehumanizing or disempowering or downright fucking stupid nature of most femdom porn. I don't feel the need to be that negative about the porn itself (at least not today)--what disturbs me more is that erotica which is scripted, directed and marketed by men and for men seems to be the only option, for the most part. I would be less inclined to bash men's fantasies if they were not being peddled as the only vision of my sexuality to the world at large.
< Message edited by ShaktiSama -- 11/19/2008 10:23:24 AM >
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