ng about sex. Women also enjoypondering sex; just not through pornography. In fact, most of these fantasiesinvolve some degree of violence or force and are largely driven by the romancenovels discussed earlier (once again supporting the evidence that romance novelsprove to be the female equivalent to male-geared pornography). Recent reportspublished by Nancy Friday, show that the number of female fantasies involvingrape far outweigh the number of male fantasies involving rape. What comes as asurprise to many is that in male fantasies, the woman rapes the man andconversely, in female fantasies, the man rapes (Sweet Savagery), the woman!(Christensen 1990:66). Fridays reports also provided some interesting reasoningfor the female fantasies. Her reports find that females fantasize about rape to showthat they are not acting in accordance with such sinful actions; to show that sex isbeing forced upon them. Any other feelings towards the fantasized rape wouldprove to be undesirable social behaviour and amazingly, the media is not eveninvolved! Actual laboratory experiments (Hawkins, Zimring 1988:103) haveshown that when groups of women were shown erotic scenes involving rape, theirreactions to the scenes were as or even more stimulating than less violentconsensual lovemaking scenes. This is not to say that all women want to be raped;far from it. This is to say that if women can fantasize about rape but not wish toexperience it, then men, too, can fantasize about rape and not wish to commit it.In addition to the many other accusations against pornography, many in societybelieve that there is definite connection between organized crime and pornography.Although this may be true, the idea is largely over-exaggerated. The reasoningbehind this theory is very simple, yet very shallow. Consider, that pornography iscreated by organizations and contains sexually explicit material that may be thoughtto be legally obscene in some areas. To make the connec...
