posting categories

[CharleyH]

I have written a new story, and am having difficulty thinking of what category it falls under. I want it to be accessible since it is an erotic tale between a scopophile and how she controls the male voyeur's look, as well as that of the female exhibitionist. So there is lesbian sex, but I consider it a broader tale than a lesbian one. While there is an element of bdsm - contolling looks and pleasure - there is only atypical bdsm, and there is a lot of anal, but is the pleasure of scopophilia/voyeurism/exhibitionism an actual fetish? I've never associated it with fetish, though the object of the scopophile is a fetish.

I'm confused about how to categorize this - any thoughts?

 

[Guest]

Sounds like it would best be put in the exhibition and voyeur category.

 

[sirhugs]

I agree.

 

[damppanties]

Same here.

You might consider putting a note at the begninning which 'warns' about the lesbian sex and bdsm if it doesn't give much of the story away. I don't think fetish counts.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

What's a "scopophile"? Someone who likes to be watched? I couldn't find it in any dictionary.

---dr.M.

 

[damppanties]

SCOPOPHILIA: Literally, the love of looking. The term refers to the predominantly male gaze of Hollywood cinema, which enjoys objectfying women into mere objects to be looked at (rather than subjects with their own voice and subjectivity). The term, as used in feminist film criticism, is heavily influenced by both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.


(I did a search after reading that first post)

Lover of Voyeurism = Scopophile; Scoptophile

 

[CharleyH]

SCOPOPHILIA: Literally, the love of looking. The term refers to the predominantly male gaze of Hollywood cinema, which enjoys objectfying women into mere objects to be looked at (rather than subjects with their own voice and subjectivity). The term, as used in feminist film criticism, is heavily influenced by both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.


(I did a search after reading that first post)

Lover of Voyeurism = Scopophile; Scoptophile

Yes, a filmic term, used by Laura Mulvey in essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," and referring to the above. However, I would disagree that it is the space of the voyeur since there is much more involved than simply viewing the object or act of sex.

In a feminist rearticulation of the theory for an erotic purpose, I have determined it is controlling all sights/looks/exchanges (in this case) controlling the whole of fantasy and looking. Theoretically it becomes possible for female subjectivity beyond the subjectivity of the voyeur, since the power/ control of a scopophile can displace the power/pleasure of the assumed male voyeur.

Voyeur needs to look, exhibitionist demands to be looked at, scopophile desires to control both of these looks. I would suggest that the scopophile is the director, the conductor, the artist if you will, controlling not only the scene in the space of a frame, but with the power to give and take away the sight from the voyeur.

Anyhow, blah, blah, blah Thanks for all the suggestions!!!!!