Chicago Strip Clubs: Sexual Violation in Suburbia: 4 Boys Getting Laid or Being Assaulted?

But at 14, everything is still a discovery. Music, drugs, sex, conversation, words, movies, your parents, the world outside your suburban incubator—everything is a massive welling feeling that we don’t yet have a vocabulary to describe. This is a condition perfectly suited for predation; someone inexperienced enough to be lied to about something that triggers a deep human instinct that even adults have a hard time describing, to say nothing of understanding.
So much of the culture that caters to male sexuality still bears those traits of coercion, deception, and violation. So many of us continue to experience our sexuality through the lens of power, feeling the need to buy sex (strip clubs, pornography, always springing for the check) and consider it a sign of self-worth when we’re able to have sex. In Waldby’s “Destructive Boundary Erotics and Refigurations of the Heterosexual Male Body” she describes the “refusal of pleasure in order not to surrender power. To defend the sovereign ego the rest of the body is drained of erotic potential in favor of its localization in the penis, taken to be the phallus’ little representative.”

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