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Phallic Intrusion

I googled phallic intrusion and this was one of the pictures that popped up.  OMG When I read the Irigaray article I felt dirty and I was also very upset!  I wasn't upset with the text but rather with the truth behind it.  It is so sick to think that sexual intercourse is as Irigaray described it, but I often feel the same way.  This picture represents the idea that the female body is lesser in some way and only a victim to being watched.  The picture shows the way the body of woman exists wholly but without a mind because it doesn't need one.  From Irigaray's text I gathered that the only way for the female body to be more than just a sexual instrument of self it needed to succumb to the male penis, so that it wouldn't touch itself.  What really confused me was whether or not Irigaray is being serious or not.  I'm sure she's being a little facetious in her writing, but is it because she sees a problem with the idea or a problem with the original thought or female body subjugation.