Sunday, March 16, 2008

Clothed Females

Searching through Google images looking for body parts for composites, I found that a search for "naked male" returned a large number of results with naked men being touched, laughed at, looked at, penetrated, etc., by groups of laughing clothed women. Initially, I though that they were someone's semi-personal photos of bachelorette parties, etc.

Clicking on the images brought up whole galleries, most of which were denoted by the abbreviation "CFNM," Clothed Female Naked Male. The websites stated that this was a 'fetish' or 'niche' enjoyed by both men and women, involving...well, exactly what it sounds like.











The women in the pictures are often attractive, but they don't really look like they're on display. They're not neccessarily thin. Their clothing is sometimes businesslike, other times more like club or party wear. There are often a group of women, most of whom are looking on with bemused expressions on their faces. They look like they're having fun, and their main bond is to each other, not the man pictured. The men are often very cute and attractive, and shown with attitudes that range from smiles to apprehension. Many of the pictures are taken from parties and naked public events; others are staged for the sites.

One of the things that interests me about this niche, and these websites, is their wide lense; while they're often basically about male submission or vulnerability, they deviate from mainstream femme-dom scenerios pictured in pornography in a number of ways. Generally, femme-dom material produced for mainstream male viewers shows a vanillized version of a mistress/s, whose role of control is little more than an idea directed and controlled by male producers and viewers. Ideas of active female sexuality are being produced by males and according to male fantasies, this scenerio made slightly more distasteful by its "female domination" tagline.



#1 Google Image result for "femme dom."






Though there's probably a basic fantasy [in CFNM porn] that one's naked body will certainly inspire worship and probably cocksucking by a round of horny females, the power dynamics are different. Clothes, especially professional clothing, implies power and agency; nudeness, passivity and objectification. Normally, the clothing worn by the woman in a femme dom scenerio is itself fetishistic in some way, whether full latex in more specialized, serious BDSM pornography or slutty, revealing clothing in mainstream B & D. In CFNM, the fact of the clothing itself is fetish enough, further placing the females in active roles, but without the sharp delination of costuming and Mistress/sub relationship present in femme dom.

Oddly, that typical delination and sharp, stylized role-reversalin maintream femme dom often serves to reinforce the idea of the normalcy of male dominance. The fetish stems from the twist on power relations, the partial activation of the duality opposite to patriarchy, which, once reframed within patriarchy, becomes sexually exciting. That is, female dominance, encapsulated and repackaged as male titillation, can not only become more sexually exciting than male dominance (due to its manageable 'naughtiness,' or twist on standard dualities) but has negative political and social ramifications as well, since it allows and teaches males to contextualize expressions of female power within a male erotic framework.

I find CFNM interesting in its minor transcendence of this point.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Hey Shithead, I Have Something To Say

Fuck you, with All of my power.

I'm waiting...waiting for you.