{"id":25223,"date":"2014-11-27T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25223"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:55:47","slug":"qotd-monster-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/27\/qotd-monster-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Monster porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Horgan is apparently so content to view sexuality as an unfathomable chthonic mystery that he doesn\u2019t even bother to ask a reasonably-intelligent woman who\u2019s turned on by this sort of thing what she thinks about it. And though I\u2019ll never read <em>Taken by the T-Rex<\/em> or <em>Moan for Bigfoot<\/em>, that\u2019s not because I\u2019m disgusted by the subject matter; as it turns out, I myself am a reasonably-intelligent woman who\u2019s turned on by this sort of thing. See these illustrations? I\u2019ve got a bunch of \u2018em in my art folders. People who played <em>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/em> with me could tell you about some memorable episodes. And remember my mentioning how the movie <em>Gargoyles<\/em> inspired one of my favorite make-believe scenarios as a kid? Yeah, that. The thing is, anybody who\u2019s read some of my other columns on my own kinks and paid attention to some of the fantasy iconography I\u2019ve featured (dig the cover of my book at upper right) could\u2019ve guessed as much; it\u2019s no surprise when a woman who is turned on by rape, abduction and bondage scenarios is similarly affected when the abductor is some sort of non-human entity. For the record, dinosaurs and the like do nothing for me; it has to be an <em>intelligent<\/em> monster, like a demon, an astropelagic alien (again, see my book) or a werewolf. In a spoken sequence on <em>Bat Out of Hell<\/em>, a male character asks a female, \u201cOn a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?\u201d My friend Philippa used to say that her answer to that was, \u201cEvery fucking time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Horgan declares that evolutionary psychology can\u2019t explain monster porn, he indulges in the same narcissism as prohibitionists do when they declare that no woman could choose sex work: \u201cI cannot understand this, therefore it is inexplicable.\u201d But actually, women being turned on by monsters is no odder (vampires, anyone?) than women indulging in transactional sex; however much either or both of them might upset and horrify prudes, they both have their origins in female behavioral scripts going back to the time when the behavior of human men wasn\u2019t much different from that of the monsters in the fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie McNeill, <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/10\/beauty-and-the-beast\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221;, <em>The Honest Courtesan<\/em><\/a>, 2014-04-10<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horgan is apparently so content to view sexuality as an unfathomable chthonic mystery that he doesn\u2019t even bother to ask a reasonably-intelligent woman who\u2019s turned on by this sort of thing what she thinks about it. And though I\u2019ll never read Taken by the T-Rex or Moan for Bigfoot, that\u2019s not because I\u2019m disgusted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41,16],"tags":[408,139,255,43],"class_list":["post-25223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","category-science","tag-pornography","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25224,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}