Apparently, the author of the following rant never read about Pedro, amigo of the Doc in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat/Cannery Row novels, who would fuck anything with a hole, even a hole in the ground....Other than this oversight, his/her theory is quite, well, mannishly commendable, i.e., it would appear to have very few holes in it.
171 On "Sexual Theory": A Correction.— Biological theories of sexuality are too often reductive and general. Using animal attraction and the brute physiology of genitalia to guide description, the phenomenon of attraction is typically reduced to the masculine desire for holes and the feminine desire for, forgive me, poles. Males will fuck anything and females in heat will accept which ever male is strong enough to beat the others to her. But this abstraction applied to human sexuality hides the truth of the phenomenon which it purports to explain.
Holes. Though some men may be aroused by a close-up photo of a vagina that excludes the rest of the body, the rest of the body is still perceptually and psychologically present as that which is excluded, unseen, out of the camera’s reach. Few are the demented minds that may honestly be said to be aroused by a bodiless vagina as a bodiless vagina. Even those who utilize artificial sexual substitutes, for example, a rubber "pocket pussy," presumably charge the sensations it offers them with sexual fantasies the focus of which is a body the rubber tool is designed to mimic through implication.
If the man were attracted to a hole per se, it is difficult to understand why he would choose a woman's over the many other and more easily attained holes the world has to offer. Rather, the man is attracted to the very opposite of a hole, namely, the voluptuous, fleshy abundance of the enveloping female body. The male does not wish to enter a simple hole, but to enter this or that person's vagina or mouth or anus. A beautiful face beckons one to its mouth while an ugly face repulses. "Hole" theory cannot account for this simple truth. Men want to be enveloped in a body at the heart of which is found--not as a goal but as one of the body's intimate dimensions--an orifice in which he and the other may simultaneously enjoy one another.
The mistake is to think it is simply "a hole" or even simply "any woman" that is desired. Though historical and cultural, as well as personal sexual proclivities and fetishes, influence and sculpt for us a general sexual milieu, the situation, nevertheless, is always particular. And the particular, in sexual theory, has for too long been neglected.
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