Being home alone is sometimes really great and sometimes really dangerous. It’s great because I am often at my most productive when I have a silent, empty apartment and I’m alone with my thoughts. I guess this is where my muse is. It’s dangerous because I never know what my muse is going to inspire me to do, and it’s rarely what I had planned. Ah well, the things I have to do always seem to eventually even out with the things I’m inspired to do over time.
In any event, tonight my muse is Tilda, who writes about her desire to be sexually used and objectified. Further, she does so with quite a flair for the OMGSEXY, if you asked me (or Axe, from whose blog I saw the post linked). In her post, Tilda writes:
[The story] revolved around a girl who “belonged” to this motorcycle gang (of course). She was there be fucked, a party favor. She lay naked in bed and throughout the evening guys would come in, fuck her and go. In and out whenever they pleased. She was just expected to lie there and keep her legs spread.
[…]
Lucky for me, I don’t have to find a shady bathroom in the back of a porn shop or befriend a motorcycle gang because I know someone who knows some penises.
Then she goes on to describe the hot sex she had one night when her “emcee” arranged for one such penis to fuck her. That’s the pr0n part, in case you’re wondering. You should go read it if you’re in the mood, or maybe if you’re not yet in the mood.
What struck me, though, was the way she referred to that guy in the beginning. She called him a penis, nothing more and nothing less. It got me wondering, because I’ve often had similar thoughts as she has, who’s objectifying who?
Now admittedly, the closest I’ve ever come to experiencing something like what Tilda describes was a conversation that I paraphrase here with pronouns changed to protect the innocent:
“Hey may, what are you doing tonight?”
“Uh, not much. At my computer reading articles. Why?”
“Want to come to [the House] and get a blowjob?”
“Uh…what?”
“One of [Mistress Name’s] clients wants a forced bi session and the first dude cancelled at the last minute. We have, like, 2 hours to find another guy or she’ll lose the session.”
“Thanks, but, I don’t really think that’s my kind of scene.”
“Oh, don’t worry, he’ll be blindfolded the whole time. He’ll never see you. You can be blindfolded too, if that’ll help.”
“Um, yeah, no. Thanks but no thanks. Good luck finding someone, though.”
I turned the offer down (and there have been more than one offer, which some part of me supposes I should be happy about) because I don’t have any interest in helping some prodomme I have never heard of before keep a session. The question at hand is pretty ridiculously obvious: what’s in it for me? I may be a primitive male, but (unlike what some researchers seem to think) a blowjob, especially one I’m being solicited for to help someone else make money, just isn’t worth it.
Anyway, what I found erotic about Tilda’s post is that it’s difficult to discern exactly who’s objectifying who in her retelling of the scene. Is she being objectified by being the fucktoy for this random guy, or is she objectifying the man fucking her, using him solely for his pseudo-dominant presence and role as a “mere user” of her body. There’s certainly no doubt that in my mind, I construct fantasies of dominant personas all the time, and I have no qualms about getting off to these fantasies and ideas. Surely there’s some kind of objectification going on there, too, despite the fact that I’m always the bottom, always the one getting fucked, in this lustful fiction.
One of the reasons that thought process is so arousing for me is because it’s an exemplary circumstance in which to exert my submissive will. That is, it’s an example of active (not passive) submission, and I like actively participating in my own submission. I mean, if I’m not engaged, if I’m just doing it so some prodomme I don’t know will get her paycheck…well, fuck, what’s the point?
by anaïs' little sister
01 Nov 2008 at 04:12
I think it’s a little bit of each, really. I kink hard on the concept of being objectified, but ultimately I do just as much detaching from those who “use” me as they do from me. The detachment is, at least for me, the point. It becomes about sex as an act, independent of the emotions or requirements. When I am an object I don’t have to worry about enjoying myself or about my owner enjoying himself, which leaves me free to enjoy myself.
That probably starts to get into my baggage, which might be worth a post of its own on my blog if I can ever sit still long enough to write about it.
by maymay
01 Nov 2008 at 15:55
@anaïs’ little sister: Yeah, I’m sure there is always a bit of each happening in these instances.
That’s a great way to put it.
by SJ
10 Nov 2008 at 07:51
I think there’s a little of both for her, as was said. At least from how I think about objectification working for me, my goal is to stop all the worried buzzing in my head that keeps me from having fun.
by SJ
10 Nov 2008 at 07:57
Because objects can’t worry, can’t be scared, can’t overthink. And I want that.
by sera
18 Nov 2008 at 12:23
Oh yeah. I mean, the guy who’s using a glory hole is just a dick to the person on the other side. Mutual objectification is extremely exciting to me–although I suppose the other fetish-name for that is “anonymous sex”.
by maymay
18 Nov 2008 at 21:32
@SJ: I’ve not actually explored the possibilities of how objectification can stop one’s overactive mind from thinking about everything. I should probably look into that more, actually, because the only way I’ve managed to make my mind shut down and sink into my body (which I find to be the only way to enjoy physicality in a sensuous, physically hedonistic manner) is through intense pain. Anyway, thanks for the thought-provoking comment.
@sera: Mutual objectification feels a little too “advanced” for me, as if there were such a thing. :) I mean, I’m barely familiar with the emotions of feeling objectified, so layering that on top of objectification of someone else makes me worry. Actually, come to think of it, this may be why I’m (embarrassingly still) so uncomfortable with casual sex.
by sera
19 Nov 2008 at 14:22
Oh fuck, who said I was comfortable with casual [email protected]?!!! I said it was exciting to me, as in–the idea of. It’s way too advanced for me too, except in my fantasies. ;)
by maymay
20 Nov 2008 at 10:20
@sera: No one said you were comfortable with casual sex, don’t worry. :) All I was saying is that I wonder if I’d feel more comfortable with casual sex if I were also more comfortable with mutual objectification in a scene, or vice versa.
by MsSnS
22 Dec 2008 at 01:05
For me, it’s complete objectification of the men involved. In my fantasies, I may even be bound at the wrists but they are there simply to satisfy me and then leave. Even if it’s a line of cops, when each is ‘finished,’ he is dismissed immediately. Sometimes it’s a row of them standing and waiting to be chosen…
by DelvingintoDeviance
18 May 2011 at 11:52
This is an interesting one! I often call my boyfriend/submissive my fuck toy. This usually makes him feel very used, which he enjoys. So perhaps he’s using me too in that way? In some ways it all comes back to who really controls a scene. The dominant is choosing what happens, but the submissive is ultimately in control of when it goes too far, and is simultaneously having their fantasies fulfilled.
On a similar note, I’ve recently begun fantasizing about being on the receiving end of a gang bang, but as a dominant. In this way I definitely see myself as being the one using them. I love being fucked and having a stream of guys to fuck me with me choosing when each one of them was done is extremely arousing. I don’t think that I would feel used in the slightest in this situation as it would be entirely focused on my pleasure. However, the common depictions of gangbangs in pornography is definitely one of a female being used by a bunch of males, but I just don’t think that has to be the case.