Erotic Fantasy. Hans-Jürgen Döpp

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      Jean-Jacques Rousseau had already written about the pleasures of anal exhibitionism. In his Confessions, he informs us that when he was about eighteen years old – round about 1730, therefore – he used to look for “dark alleys and remote spots where I would show myself at a distance to young women in the posture I really wished to adopt close to them. What they saw was not the obscene member – I never ever thought of that – but its reverse, the ridiculous. The silly pleasure I took in mooning in front of them is indescribable. I really only needed to take another step further in order to experience the treatment I longed for, since I had no doubt that one or other more resolute girl would have done it to me in passing if I had had the courage to wait.” Did he want to be spanked on his bottom? In any case, according to his own estimation, he gave the girls “more of a ridiculous sight than a seductive one. The cleverest pretended not to notice; others shrieked with laughter, while others took offence and made a fuss.”

      In spite of disgust and shame, people retain their fascination with this part of the body, with its functions and products – even, and especially, when they campaign against “obscenity”. A secret, displaced pleasure can always be detected under cover of disgust.

      We know of the twenty-one-year-old Mozart’s letters to “Bäsele”, presumably his first lover. In these, he celebrates scatological verbal orgies in a boisterous, almost infantile manner; this is probably the reason these letters were unpublished for so long. Untamed pleasure in anality ignites a verbal faecal-firework display. On 13 November, 1777, he wrote from Mannheim; “I’m sorry about the bad handwriting, my pen is already old. Soon it will be twenty-two years that I have been shitting out of the same hole, and it’s still not torn! – and I’ve shat so often…” On 28 February he writes; “I just did a big fart! Our arses should be the signs of peace. Shit! – Shit! O sweet word![34]“

      Anal eroticism seems to be an indisputable fertile soil of our culture, and psychoanalysis has shown that the drives which are interpreted as anal-erotic have an extraordinary significance for our inner life as well as our cultural life. The bottom is a place where instinctive drives and their sublimation can be localised, so that it could be said that it represents the cradle of our culture. The posterior as the other side of “high” culture? What is our concept of beauty? It is there even when not discussed. Does not the idea “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we behold its glory” refer precisely to the buttocks?[35] Fashion has always been aware of this. Women have always tried to draw men’s attention to their rears, whether by swaying them ostentatiously while walking, or by artificial padding for fashionable emphasis, as though their entire attractiveness depended on the attractiveness of their bottoms.

      In the history of fashion, periods of slimness alternate with periods of voluptuousness. The cult of the callipygian is always found in those periods where rounded, curvaceous, voluptuous women embody the ideal of beauty. The posterior loses its aesthetic value in periods where slimness is the norm.

      The Rococo was a period of sophisticated eroticism. It is evident from illustrations of the period that a lovely backside was admired just as much as a lovely bosom. A publication entitled Servants of Beauty, which appeared in Leipzig in 1774, gives the following opinion of what constitutes a lovely backside: “Those buttocks are considered beautiful that are evenly placed, not too high, and not uneven as in lame people whose hip-bones are displaced, that do not stick out like a bay window; not so large and fat that you could dance on them, but not so skinny and sharp that you could drill holes with them, but rounded, hard, taut, so that they have a pleasing resonance when slapped, smooth and white…” We see that the image of a firm bottom is not new, just the concepts change.

      Goethe was also aware of the charms of a lovely backside;

      33. Berthomme de Saint-André, 1927.

      34. Achille Devéria, circa 1830. Lithograph.

      35. Achille Devéria, circa 1830. Lithograph.

      36. Achille Devéria, circa 1830. Romantic Lithography.

      It was the fashion to emphasise these curves with extra padding, for instance with an item known as the “Cul de Paris”. This was described in a women’s dictionary of 1725: “A French backside is a rounded, soft and lightly padded cushion or loincloth that a woman wears beneath her skirts so as to pad out her rear end and draw attention to her figure”. The “Cul de Paris” experienced its greatest triumph during the Biedermeier period, when it developed into a fixed steel frame which gave the impression of curves which often did not exist.

      Men also took pride in having taut buttocks. During the Renaissance especially, opulent male figures were appreciated. Many contemporaries described the closely-cut breeches which particularly emphasise the buttocks as shameless. A chronicle from 1492 records: “Young men wore tunics that came no longer than a hand span below the belt, so that their breeches could be seen quite clearly, in front and behind, and they were so tight that the cleavage of their buttocks was obvious; a fine thing!” In the first half of the sixteenth century wide breeches which gave the impression of huge buttocks became fashionable, quite in keeping with the course sexuality of the period. In our own day the cult of the callipygian has gained a considerable improvement in status thanks to the modern fashion for trousers, especially the worldwide triumphal progress of jeans, for both sexes.

      Nevertheless fashion has never managed to achieve a genuine “décolletage” of the buttocks. An erotic story from 1905 describes a “ball” of the buttocks: “Lovely lady, I think that bottoms have been condemned to suffer since the creation of the world; now it is time that they were honoured, it’s only fair… Choose a form of exposure that corresponds to the form of its beauty. You are permitted to adorn it elaborately with pearls or diamonds, veil it with gauze, frame it with ruches and frills, drape it with blue or red, according to the colour of your hair. If you adorn this part of your body with the same artistry as you adorn your bosom, I can guarantee, ladies, that you will СКАЧАТЬ