Thanks Donald. It’s interesting and telling that the most well documented pornography is the female image. I have no proof of that, only an assumption. Is there anything to that assessment? All that comes to mind is that history seems to favor male domination. Anyhow, an excellent essay.
I think you're right about the male gaze predominating, up until the mid to late 20th Century I guess, when the male gaze permitted such otherness as directing the gaze towards other men, and the female gaze toward other women. Except for the religiously fanatic of course. The whole question of desire and its imagined parameters in the dream-mind is a fascinating one for sure, and for me, complete freedom of expression of anybody's self in any way they happen to feel it best evoked is always the way to go. Tolerance toward others, in other words. What a radical concept.
Thanks Donald. It’s interesting and telling that the most well documented pornography is the female image. I have no proof of that, only an assumption. Is there anything to that assessment? All that comes to mind is that history seems to favor male domination. Anyhow, an excellent essay.
I think you're right about the male gaze predominating, up until the mid to late 20th Century I guess, when the male gaze permitted such otherness as directing the gaze towards other men, and the female gaze toward other women. Except for the religiously fanatic of course. The whole question of desire and its imagined parameters in the dream-mind is a fascinating one for sure, and for me, complete freedom of expression of anybody's self in any way they happen to feel it best evoked is always the way to go. Tolerance toward others, in other words. What a radical concept.