is
for Boy Virgin. While the characters in modern pornography are
anything but defenseless in appearance, they are constantly whimpering
and begging, their voices cracking and quavering as they make such beseeching
entreaties as "stay away from me. . . please!", "n-nobody
ever did this to m-me before," "I ne. . . never did no. . . nothing
like this," and "you. . . r-raped me," all the while
praying -- fruitlessly -- that their merciless assailant will be "too
much of a gentleman to take advantage of the situation." Modern
pornography is plagued by the ploys of the big-bad-wolf syndrome. As
unmitigatedly macho as these strapping, Tom of Finland giants are, they
exhibit an inappropriate kind of false maidenliness, the frightened diffidence
of bashful virgins who balk at the prospect of being ravished. As
soon as some big bad brute has the audacity to leer suggestively at them
or make indelicate remarks about their imperiled virtue, they behave like
damsels in distress roped to the railroad tracks.
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