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Hardcore pornography and enforced humiliating subjectivization

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In standard heterosexual hardcore pornography the male performer is a faceless instrument; the camera ensures the woman looks into it, seeking signs of her enjoyment. This is not objectification but a doubly humiliating forced subjectivization.

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“The woman is not just turned into a passive object. The woman is doubly humiliated: she is fucked, but at the same time she...you as a viewer are looking for...signs that the woman really enjoys.”
“You can see it all but chop-chop you will not get serious emotions... Lacanian veil of castration, veil, choice at its purest.”
“You don't identify with the guy doing it. You identify with the pure gaze, you want proof that the woman enjoys.”

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In standard heterosexual hardcore pornography the male performer is a faceless instrument; the camera ensures the woman looks into it, seeking signs of her enjoyment. This is not objectification but a doubly humiliating forced subjectivization., illustrating reflexivity (fourth wall),ideology and gaze,subjectivization vs. objectification
In hardcore pornography, the plumber-style stupid narrative is not accidental incompetence but a structural necessity: to see all sexually explicit content, the authentic emotional dimension must be sabotaged, an illustration of the Lacanian veil/choice at its purest., illustrating Lacanian veil of castration,directness as obfuscation,censorship
Viewers identify with the 'pure gaze' (the woman looking at the camera) rather than the actor, seeking proof of her enjoyment., illustrating pure gaze
In typical heterosexual hardcore pornography, Žižek argues, the woman is not reduced to an object but is the only real subject: man's face is invisible, he is a mere instrument, and the camera identifies with the male viewer seeking confirmation that the woman enjoys, which is actually a deeper form of humiliation., illustrating minimum of reflexivity,jouissance,the gaze