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Chi l’avrebbe detto che quando, come Maschile Plurale abbiamo scelto di tenere il nostro incontro nazionale sul nesso tra rapporti di prostituzione e immaginario sessuale maschile affrontavamo un tema che di lì a pochi giorni sarebbe stato al centro della politica italiana? L’uso da parte de Premier del proprio potere economico e politico per disporre liberamente di corpi femminili.
La politica, soprattutto il centro destra ma con molte eccezioni mirabili di sindaci “sceriffi” di centro sinistra, quando parla di prostituzione lo fa per alimentare campagne “d’ordine “ e xenofobe di ripristino del “decoro of the city. " Conversely, if you are a man of power who uses it as its own public, the police will fine you on the freeway but will provide the escort. But even in this case, the girls involved in the case of "Ruby" are invited to leave their apartments via Olgettina because they represent an injury to "dignity" of the condominium. You are safe only as long as remains in the shadows or in the cone of light that you associated with Pia Covre potente.Ha reason to denounce the brutal hypocrisy with which these days is trampling the lives of the women involved. Stigma remains the prostitute, the man with her "honor", she remains the repository of shame. The division of Berlusconi "Good father" in the products delivered to the house of the Italian and "whore" at night is a reflection of the division experienced by 9 million Italian men: not the one between "whores" and women but between sexuality played well in the dark because unspeakable and ennobled by love and marital procreative purposes.
hear how it sounds different? "Great pimp" is like "Little Rascals", "whore" "bitch" is a condemnation, removes any nationality: as the Italian Republic that, giving the vote to all "citizens" delayed a bit 'to also recognize to prostitutes. But
refuse to express moral judgments on women who exchange sex for money or career opportunities, refuse to reduce them to the victims or accomplices must mean look away, to say the insignificance of the use of political and cultural power political and economic order to have female bodies? There is an alternative
between indignation and indifference tinged with moralism that relegates sexuality (and thus the power relations between the sexes, the representations of women and men) in public and political insignificance?
We said (also in charge Queer others suggested) that is necessary to make center of a collective reflection forms of male sexuality and the imagination that are the basis of the demand for prostitution and it can become a point of view to challenge the asymmetry between men and women.
Asymmetry in desire, asymmetry in the recognition of subjectivity and therefore in power. Because power, money and desire are at the center not only of the relations of prostitution that are eaten in the streets but mark the gender relations and gender institutions that govern our daily lives. One wish, one subject, the male who exercises power over the world on the female body and women being reduced to mute body, devoid of desire and sexuality autonoma. La dote (e il destino) delle donne è il corpo, la loro sessualità è sessualità di servizio, cura: quella che il premier invoca riferendosi alla sua necessità di relax dopo i propri impegni di governo.
Nella resistenza di molte e molti agli appelli di questi giorni c’è anche il sospetto che inseguano la speranza che dove non ha potuto il conflitto sociale, l’opposizione politica possa, come con l’arresto per evasione fiscale di Al Capone, una repentina ondata di indignazione, e che magari le gerarchie ecclesiastiche scarichino chi ha imposto leggi liberticide in nome della morale cattolica ora che è screditato.
Non mi convince però chi, sulla base di questo sospetto, afferma che non it is a political issue, that "very different" are the reason why Berlusconi should drop or at most, the problem would be its political blackmail and therefore unfit for Government resulting from the ongoing sex scandal.
Even this exposure of a man of government to the risk to go around with a mediator of sexual ambiguity, a gambler and women who choose (more or less freely) to sell sexual services can be compared with men who ask to street prostitutes to have sex without a condom (as if the mediation of the money promised invulnerability and the illusion of anonymity, a condom symbolic).
No. I believe not only that the issue of representation of gender relations and the affirmation of gender models are fully in politics. But also that the consensus that Berlusconi continues to collect not more by his constant reference to these references. And its very aggressive misogynist, homophobic her lines are at one with his show of virility bulimic.
So why today is so hard to build not only a reflection but also a public initiative? Why is there a reaction? Because, perhaps, that Berlusconi is an unconventional but far from excessive behavior. In the dream alluded to appears to correspond to mediocrity leveling out of the desire that proposes and pursues her. Raimo what Christian calls "the democratization of the erotic dream."
Against the ambivalence of "authoritarianism permissive" or transgression is certified strength and weakness of Berlusconi. Propose an idea of \u200b\u200bfreedom that is suffocating "the freedom to match a traditional model without brakes but with no degree of freedom to transgress." No coincidence that the Premier outlines what is the narrow space of his own transgression when he says that "it is better to love (maybe a bit 'excessively) women to be gay." The transgression which we propose the Prime Minister is very similar to that of the adolescent who burps or say crap in front of the girls to assert his manhood, and always under observation to be confirmed.
Transgression for men is always an obligation, provided it does not call into question the true contours of the cage. The limits of freedom and transgression are fixed in the imagination of Bagaglino and Alvaro Vitali, but if sgarra by the canons of traditional masculinity is the dark iron moralist.
In that report is the setting for the exchange of sex for money and power with this dominant model of masculinity?
A manifesto for women of the Democratic Party clearly express this call when he says that "a man of ungovernable and that respect women can not govern. " The exercise capacity of self-government and self-control is the foundation of the authority of the Government in exercising men like his own sexual vitality as a measure of its policy initiative.
open debate on the relationship of CENSIS on the crisis of an "order of the father" in our society refers to this discussion. Not by chance CENSIS also speaks of a crisis of desire and capacity not only to govern.
man trying to act as a conflict against the traditional and dominant models of masculinity, I always feel with some alarm the risk of return of a "nostalgia" for the order of the Father. In which politicians and statesmen had a dignity and a penalty. Perhaps, for example, would be useful to understand how those forms of political discipline there was (only) an exercise of self-discipline but also the perception of being in a network of relationships of meaning, and not the autonomy of the leadership that would separate provide functionality to politics.
And the instinct to move away from the limits of power is not new and is not necessarily the daughter of a crisis of patriarchy. I think it was significant in this sense that someone in the network have called the film Pasolini's "Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom." The agency, the exercise of power without limits, the removal of the other as before removal. Their freedom as the absence of significant limitations. The limit represented by the desire and the gaze of the other which is not only a service, the limit on what I have and consume. Il Foglio, more or less consciously, he will be remembered as the Prime Minister is contiguous to an imagined sultan's harem, the 77 virgins: women's bodies and wetsuits available. the removal of desire and female sexuality. Reminds us, however, Fatima Mernisssi the image of a woman's dress suits Harem is a projection of Western man that does not correspond to the narrator of Arabian Nights.
To dream of a shrunken world of infinite availability Women prefer the more practical (and certainly that transgresses the dominant order), a world inhabited by female desire. Not dumb bodies in the service of a bulimic and autistic, but stories, looks, desires of women with which to stake my desire.
will be harder work, but I will not have to spend my evenings with Emilio Fede and Lele Mora. And that's something that, although it will never confess, I envy Berlusconi.
Stefano Ciccone
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