Ideas. Synthesis. Disharmony.

How many images had my generation absorbed from movies and books of a woman, usually an angry one, turning her back on a man in a gesture of rejection and the man roughly pulling her back, kissing her passionately? She struggles only briefly, then puts her arms around his neck and kisses him back with equal passion. A woman’s unwillingness, these images suggest, is an essential ingredient of her pleasure, which can only be released by the man’s aggression. Only then will she realize how much she wants him. This view of sex makes lack of consent by the female a part of normal sex.