Monday, September 8, 2008

A big dick isn't a big deal


I am concerned that some have misinterpreted my previous post a few days ago. Yes, I am a size-queen, but a big dick isn't really that big of a deal. On the list of male bodyparts, it comes 37th, if that, and if I was being honest, I'd say a smaller-than-average one is actually pretty sexy too.

When a person has anxiety about something, and fears something, the easiest thing to do is a mental process called reductionism – something is easier to understand and be a lot less nervous about if it is reduced in complexity. This happens in, for instance, foreign policy, and the media. Take for instance, the coverage of the recent Russian invasion of Georgia: it’s much easier to do what the press does, blame it on scary aggression by our old sparring partners, the Russians, as opposed to analyzing the historically complex, three way nature of the conflict between Georgians, Ossetians, and Russians.


If it’s something you’re scared of, reductionism can make it easier to deal with. I’ve argued previously that the entire basis of the website EpicLust is anxiety about women. That’s why there’s a fascination with large penises at EpicLust: if you’re afraid of women, if our motivations are imcomprehensible and unknowable, and it’s hard to understand what it is we want, it must be very reassuring to say that the secret to attracting adoration from women is to pack a superendowed protein pistol. For a great deal of men that don’t understand complexity in attraction, this can be a very powerful fantasy: the reduction of human sexuality to just having a big dick. Really, it’s just not that simple and never has been.

3 comments:

charvolth said...

Been a reader for several months, have found many articles here quite interesting. As a poster to Epiclust, I can see some of your points on an anxiety about woman, but again you might be oversimplifying things.
For me the issue of endowment is just as much about my sense aesthetic. I think it looks good, besides the notion of exploring what it might be like to read about someone either just barely, struggling with, or is completely ruled by lust, as personified by overly large equipment. Though to be fair I try to have a reasonable explanation in the context of the setting.
However, it isn't the equipment that causes interest, its often the character's charm, and looks (of a near superhuman variety). the equipment is initially perhaps curiosity if anything. But that's where it begins

Anonymous said...

I'm interested in both female and male partners being overly endowed.
Aesthetically it is more stimulating to see a muscle man armed with a huge dick than a small one.
It's the same with a stunning woman who has massive breasts rather than small ones.

Funbird

Esperanto Grrl said...

Funbird -

Obviously this post wasn't talking about your work, of course. Nobody with terror of women would create a character as feisty and sexual as Justine. In Justine's stories, people that are intimidated by women are cast as the villains, not heroes, as in the story with Justine's visit to the Arab ship, the Falcon. They were intimidated by Justine, couldn't tame her, and inevitably got their comeuppance.

The women in your stories have real personalities: Sonja, for instance, in Emil is a savvy, feisty girl that is nothing like the bimbos and "sluts" seen in something like the terminally retarded "Love's World" or the mysoginistic "Big Timmy" stories.

Likewise, your male heroes are sexy and fascinating (usually) for reasons that make their endowment almost an afterthought.