Home Numeri 63 Images and narratives between int Femdom, the Libidinal Edge of Int This paper sheds light on its sexual, psychological, psychoanalytic and socio-ethical implications, drawing on and reframing theories about masochism, abjection, biopolitics, nihilism and so on. More precisely, desire and derive mingle indiscernibly in the disintegration of the Symbolic and the Real, of the private and the public that characterizes the self-destructive addictive culture of capitalist hedonism.
Seducing and exciting spectators, it provokes them into touching themselves in a vicarious thrill mixed with autoeroticism. The screen is a permeable membrane between performance and observation, fantasy and reality, vision and tactility.
The age of the Internet has only intensified this media experience, virtual sex turning into actual masturbation in diverse ways. Likewise, every part of the female body is categorized as a specific fetish object to peep into, drool over, appreciate and worship from big tits to deadly asses, blond hair to mesmerizing eyes, dirty socks to stiletto heels. An overwhelming height, slick long legs, and sexily trained muscles are trendy qualities that dwarf, captivate, and threaten small impotent men in fascination.
Online and offline spaces merge together in this loop of interactivity. But even with no physical encounter, interactivity involves a variety of much more common interfacial and intermedial activities. Texting, emailing, updating Sns, and video chatting are basic but crucial in everyday exchanges of desire. And many dommes make and sell photos and videos in on-demand fetish markets Clip4sale, Kinkbomb, Iwantclips , sometimes reflecting customer requests for specific Pov acts.
And all this interplay is shot, posted, shared, and promoted by both dommes and subs. Biologically, some dommes state that female beauty, especially sexual, is programmed to cause male arousal for the evolutionary purpose of reproduction in the animal world as well. Therefore it is the universal law of nature that men are physically and mentally drawn to sexy women, wanting to attract them by pleasing them, offering what they want.
