Two men watch a pornographic movie. They have a
sadistic sexual encounter. One of the men, Beno, goes
off to meet Carol, a woman he has known previously.
He forces her to fuck and suck two Blacks, who violate
her in every way. Carol’s husband intrudes. Beno forces
Carol to suck her husband’s cock and as her husband
comes, Beno shoots him. An example of the purple
prose:
In a sudden spasm the man clutches her head and
arches his back and as the beginning sensations of
orgasm overtake him Beno pulls the trigger, the explosion drowning out the sound of Carol gulping on his come and his brains splashing against the ceiling. 5
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Carol is announced: “he could smell her even before he
saw her. ” 6 T h e rape which Beno forces on her is, o f
course, the vehicle o f her recognition that she loves
him, because only he could do that to her. T h e story
contains incredible violence. Beno whips his male lover,
Carol is beaten and raped, the husband is killed. T he
cocks o f the Blacks are, o f course, gigantic tools o f pleasure and pain. T here is little to distinguish “Congo Crystal Hotel” from straight pornography, except for
the awful quality o f the writing. T h e vision o f woman is
precisely the same: insatiable cunt, to be violated and
abused; the sadomasochistic content is the same; even
the exaggerated genitalia o f the Blacks participate in
the worst o f the pornographic tradition.
“Sex Angels, ” a story by Ron Reid, chronicles the adventures o f Helen and Tony, that is, a gangbang arranged by Helen with a bunch o f tough bikers. Helen is “high class cunt who was soon to be stuffed with their
working class cocks. ” 7 T he class analysis is central to the
story: “the social gu lf accentuated the mounting thrill
already high with the knowledge that the young husband was to observe his wife’s gangbanging by the pack. ” 8 The culmination o f the event, after Helen has
been thoroughly used, is described like this:
now hot wet fuck tube — hot slit, go on let see you fuck
your wife now. we’ve all been through her. 9
Helen, whose resemblance to that other well-known sex
object, Helen o f Troy, will not be overlooked by the
acute observer, is a “hot wet fuck tube —hot slit. ” Indeed, one must ask, in the world o f
Woman Hating
The overwhelming fact which emerges about
fiction is that it contains and expresses the traditional
male fantasies about women. Helen and Carol differ
little from O and Claire. Their needs can be articulated
in precisely the same way: cock, lots of it, all o f the time,
rape, violation, cruelty. If only our needs were so simple. If only our needs had anything to do with it at all.
