Is the standard sexual interaction of the domesticated human, that of a Father and a Daughter?
The idealized domesticated human female has little or no body hair, particularly pubic, in the manner of prepubescent (pre-sexual) girls. The catholic school girl outfit has been infamously sexualized to the point that many schools no longer allow its use. Also sexualized are lolipops, pig-tails, pleated skirts in general, and naivity about sexual things. The ideal sexual woman in domestic culture is not in fact a woman at all, but a sexually naive (and virginal) girl whom the male can instruct, control and dominate.
This leads us to the question, in what other domestic relationship is a young girl instructed, and controlled and even potentially dominated? Follow this up with the question, what is the idealized sexual man in domestic culture? He is experienced (whereas the girl is not) and thus he is sexually mature. He is physically developed and thus fully an adult.
On top of these uncomfortable facts we add the domestic culture's obsession with patriarchs. Whether in the halls of the gods- Zeus was father to many gods, Odin was father to many Aesir, and so forth- including of course the infamous Father of the Catholic trinity. Historically Kings have been compared to fathers and fathers have been described as heads of the household- with final say over what happens within said household. Patriachs are hugely important in the bible- starting with Adam and Abraham and continuing through whole chapters concerned only with lineage as determined by the males of the family.
Even in a marriage, the man presents himself at the altar- and the bride is given away to her new sexual owner by her father (her old sexual owner?).
What does this say about the underlying fears and neuroses of modern culture? What does this say about how we treat the rest of the world?
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