The Insatiable Woman

Throughout this lectures this week, I found it very interesting that the concept of "the insatiable woman" is present in various subjects ranging from pornography, talking vaginas, witchcraft, and sodomy. In all of these subjects, the woman is portrayed as inherently insatiable. Despite what she may say for instance in the lecture about talking vaginas, her body or vagina would say otherwise suggesting an innate promiscuous behavior. On the subject of witchcraft and sodomy, these women are also described to want to have sex with other women regardless of why they might such as a perverse or distorted personality. Proponents of traditional witchcraft involving sorcery and the devil may critique that witchcraft has nothing to do with insatiability because these "witches" are possessed and negatively influenced by the devil and rebuking the theory that these women are innately insatiable. However, insatiability is not only limited to connotations of lewdness but also a deeper implication of unreliability resulting from the tendency to engage in sexual activities. As a result of this connection, witches, who cannot be trusted, are then associated with the term insatiable as well. Nevertheless, although the subjects may be different superficially, the subjects' underlying, overlapping message that women are promiscuous and insatiable is clear.