True. When a girl is playing the torturer's role, there is something sexy in it. However, is it a gender issue? As an antagonist to the classic male 'hangman' with his mask, leather skirt, hairy potbelly and large axes, there is the slender handsome 'heroine from the dark side'.
What if the torturer is the twin sister of the classic hangman, overweighted like her brother, competing with a well built male in the strength of his days? Has anyone ever explored the consequences in imagery?
My favourite section of the above referred 'Histoire d' O' is O's stay at Anne-Marie's place. Not because of the fitting of the irons or the marking (the writer opens up a pit there too deep for her to fathom), but because of the mix of subtlety and brutality Anne-Marie puts in her dominance, torture and influence, much different from the approach by the men at Roissy or by Sir Stephen.
Top bible-related torturess/heroine for me is of course Judith, the executioner, who goes out to do away with the general who laid a block for het city. It is fun to read how she tortures her victim, plays him by his gentry and lets him simmer in his heat for three days, then, once summoned by the general's euneuch (familiar name?), reverses the momentum and faces him straight ahead, strikes him with her full availability (she brings her bedroll to his tent), there charges merciless at his weak spot (alcohol), and then when he is totally pissed and sound asleep with his own sword chops his head off and then in all ease makes back to her own besieged city. Had Judith been Judas (so a young handsome man) and let aside that the homo-erotic elements would have made odds for survival of the story very bad, would the story have had the same impact? I do not think so.
What if the torturer is the twin sister of the classic hangman, overweighted like her brother, competing with a well built male in the strength of his days? Has anyone ever explored the consequences in imagery?
My favourite section of the above referred 'Histoire d' O' is O's stay at Anne-Marie's place. Not because of the fitting of the irons or the marking (the writer opens up a pit there too deep for her to fathom), but because of the mix of subtlety and brutality Anne-Marie puts in her dominance, torture and influence, much different from the approach by the men at Roissy or by Sir Stephen.
Top bible-related torturess/heroine for me is of course Judith, the executioner, who goes out to do away with the general who laid a block for het city. It is fun to read how she tortures her victim, plays him by his gentry and lets him simmer in his heat for three days, then, once summoned by the general's euneuch (familiar name?), reverses the momentum and faces him straight ahead, strikes him with her full availability (she brings her bedroll to his tent), there charges merciless at his weak spot (alcohol), and then when he is totally pissed and sound asleep with his own sword chops his head off and then in all ease makes back to her own besieged city. Had Judith been Judas (so a young handsome man) and let aside that the homo-erotic elements would have made odds for survival of the story very bad, would the story have had the same impact? I do not think so.