out that women, and not just men, also enjoy thesethrills based on numerous studies. When discussing pornography, it is scarcelynoted that men are not the only ones who enjoy fantasizing about sex. Womenalso enjoy pondering sex; just not through pornography. In fact, most of thesefantasies involve some degree of violence or force and are largely driven by theromance novels discussed earlier (once again supporting the evidence that romancenovels prove to be the female equivalent to male-geared pornography). Recentreports published by Nancy Friday, show that the number of female fantasiesinvolving rape far outweigh the number of male fantasies involving rape. Whatcomes as a surprise to many is that in male fantasies, the woman rapes the man and conversely, in female fantasies, the man rapes (“Sweet Savagery”), thewoman! (Christensen 1990:66). Friday’s reports also provided some interestingreasoning for the female fantasies. Her reports find that females fantasize about rape toshow that they are not acting in accordance with such “sinful” actions; to showthat sex is being “forced” upon them. Any other feelings towards the fantasizedrape would prove to be “undesirable social behaviour” and amazingly, themedia is not even involved! Actual laboratory experiments (Hawkins, Zimring1988:103) have shown that when groups of women were shown erotic scenes involvingrape, their reactions to the scenes were as or even more stimulating than less violent consensual lovemaking scenes. This is not to say that all women want tobe raped; far from it. This is to say that if women can fantasize about rapebut not wish to experience it, then men, too, can fantasize about rape and notwish to commit it. In addition to the many other accusations against pornography, many insociety believe that there is definite connection between organized crime and pornography. Although this may be true, the idea ...
