Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality

analysis of it reveals that the sexism is all-pervasive,

expressed primarily as sadomasochism, absolutely the

same as, and not counter to, the parent cultural values.

Suck claims to be an ally. It is crucial to demonstrate that

it is not.

The first issue of Suck appeared in Amsterdam,

Holland, in 1969. It continues to be printed in Amsterdam because Dutch police do not confiscate pornography or imprison pornographers. It was started by two Amerikan expatriates. Suck is entirely about sex,

that is, its pages contain pornographic fiction, technical

sexual advice (how to suck cock or cunt, for instance),

letters from readers which reveal personal sexual histories (mostly celebrational), and photographs o f cunt, cock, fucking, sucking, and group orgying. The newspaper appears irregularly —when there is enough

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money and material for publication. Suck is confiscated

in England and France with some vigor.

Suck has made positive contributions. Sucking is

approached in a new way. Sucking cock, sucking cunt,

how to, how good. Sperm tastes good, so does cunt. In

particular, the emphasis on sucking cunt serves to

demystify cunt in a spectacular way —cunt is not dirty,

not terrifying, not smelly and foul; it is a source o f

pleasure, a beautiful part o f female physiology, to be

seen, touched, tasted.

T he taboo against sucking goes very deep. Most of

the actual laws against cocksucking and cuntsucking

relate to prohibitions against any sexual activity that

does not lead to, or is not performed for the purpose

o f effecting, impregnation. Sucking as an act leading

to orgasm places the nature o f sexual contact clearly —

sex is the coming together o f people for pleasure. T he

value is in the coming together. Marriage does not

sanctify that coming together, procreation is not its

goal. Suck treats sucking as an act o f the same magnitude as fucking. That attitude, pictures o f women sucking cock, men sucking cunt, and all the vice versas,

discussions o f the techniques o f sucking, all break down

barriers to the realization o f a full sexuality.

Cunnilingus and fellatio (sucking by any other name

. . . ) are still crimes. The antifellatio laws, in conjunction with sodomy laws, are sometimes used against male homosexuals (lesbians are not taken seriously enough

to be prosecuted). Given the selective enforcement o f

the laws, the shame that attaches to the forbidden acts,

and the fact that acts o f oral lovemaking represented

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in words or in pictures are generally deemed obscene,

sucking must be seen in and of itself as an act of political

significance (which is certainly wonderful news for depressed revolutionaries). In this instance