it's a truism of porn production that woman on top is the
preferred posture, explicitly because it’s more revealing -- and
ideally with the woman facing away from the man so that in fact the man is
hardly present at all except as a kind of marker for male sexuality that gets
projected onto the male viewer
and of course this is no way represents female power because
porn is equally insistent on the woman’s acknowledgment of and responsiveness
to the camera itself, the camera being the real representation of male agency
mike
Subject: Re: Cultural query
Smart observation...the viewer is in the position of the
male - perfect dovetailing of the male gaze. I would argue woman on top
is not always evocative of female power, esp, if she is straddling/sitting up
-- echoes of lap dancing which is for the male gaze.
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> A supplementary question might be to ask why the
preferred mainstream
> filmic sex position is woman on top. (A claim
I make here without
> support) I would argue that this position is
preferred to expose more
> (flesh) of the female in coitus, not any
demonstration of female power.
> rwm
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