title: Centerfold. An essay on excitement.
abstract: A woman who poses for soft-core pornography reports that she has never felt she belonged to her body, that she is and wants only to be an erotic product manufactured by a team of specialists for the use of a viewing audience of males, that since age 5 she has been a nude dancer, and that she has no other material existence except in this form. She is, then, a fetish. Her success illustrates the hypothesis that erotic daydreams in pronography represent fantasies of revenge in which the consumer imagines he is degrading--dehumanizing--women.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D004882:Erotica; D005084:Exhibitionism / Q000523:psychology; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000523:psychology; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D014843:Voyeurism / Q000523:psychology