![A mostly naked Little Red Riding Hood keeps the Wolf, a naked man with animal ears, on a leash as he eagerly performs cunnilingus on her.
I like this picture a lot because it reminds me that so much of people’s shared vocabulary comes from sources outside of their own control. In many variants of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, the (male) Wolf violently threatens the (female) Little Red Riding Hood, however in this one it is the girl with evident control over the Wolf. I particularly enjoy the fact that the Wolf’s cheeks are flushed and his mouth dripping, as though sexually pleasuring Little Red Riding Hood is a primal need of his.
While reading fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood as a boy, the overtones of masculine aggression and feminine vulnerability were not lost on me. Although children today most often hear only one variant of this fairy tale (and most other fairy tales), these old stories have undergone major adaptations dozens of times throughout history. As Catherine Orenstein writes in her book, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, [I]nevitably the tale has been a vehicle for imparting sexual ethics in keeping with the social fabric of the times.
Thus, if there is a lesson in all of this, it is that such social fabric has been constructed (and is continually reconstructed) time and again, whether in society at large or in subcultures; if a social construction does not work for you, then you have the power and the right to make one that does.
-maymay
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plainnasty:
all the better to EAT you with!](https://web.archive.org/web/20120714111821im_/http://24.media.tumblr.com/STLcjC9xRnipzs67dJueiOEfo1_500.jpg)
A mostly naked Little Red Riding Hood keeps the Wolf, a naked man with animal ears, on a leash as he eagerly performs cunnilingus on her.
I like this picture a lot because it reminds me that so much of people’s shared vocabulary comes from sources outside of their own control. In many variants of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, the (male) Wolf violently threatens the (female) Little Red Riding Hood, however in this one it is the girl with evident control over the Wolf. I particularly enjoy the fact that the Wolf’s cheeks are flushed and his mouth dripping, as though sexually pleasuring Little Red Riding Hood is a primal need of his.
While reading fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood as a boy, the overtones of masculine aggression and feminine vulnerability were not lost on me. Although children today most often hear only one variant of this fairy tale (and most other fairy tales), these old stories have undergone major adaptations dozens of times throughout history. As Catherine Orenstein writes in her book, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, [I]nevitably the tale has been a vehicle for imparting sexual ethics in keeping with the social fabric of the times.
Thus, if there is a lesson in all of this, it is that such social fabric has been constructed (and is continually reconstructed) time and again, whether in society at large or in subcultures; if a social construction does not work for you, then you have the power and the right to make one that does.
all the better to EAT you with!