Crosspost "Men’s desire to torture women to gain sexual satisfaction does not come from porn, it is prior to it, otherwise it wouldn’t be made in the first place." from /r/TheFairerSex:

You know how sometimes you read something and it’s just so haunting that it changes something in you?

I remember being at the public library devouring books about the Salem witch trials. I remember reading about how they would lock these women up, depriving them of sleep,starve them, strip them and search their bodies for “witches marks”.

But, it never really accrued to me that these men were just fucking perverts. So, first they went after the old and ugly, everyone hates them. They were killed swiftly or left to rot. Then they turned their eyes to the young and vulnerable.

The men would torture these women, strike, prick, and burn their breast and nipples. There was a passage about how they would take their clothes off to “not soil them with blood”. If they got an erection is was the witch enchanting their penis.

If you look at the medieval witch hunting manuals, or the “confessions” they extracted from accused witches, it begins to look an awful lot like a bunch of perverts just invented the most twisted and perverted sexual fantasies they could imagine, and then tortured women into confessing to them. I’m pretty sure it was basically just pornography for the witch-hunters.

Don’t believe me? But I bet you could identify at least 3 different forms of medieval torture devices, you think those methods just disappeared? You think men in complete control of a young girls life,who is willing to do all this to humiliate them isn’t capable of rape?

Those witch trials weren’t ever about god, they were about men pretending,yet again,to be them. I have heard #MeToo referred to as a “witch hunt”. I only wish it came close.

Posted by AspenGoddess | 11 June 2020 | Link