[“In an essay originally published in English in Mask Magazine in 2016, German communist Bini Adamczak proposed a new term, or rather a new way of thinking about something that has always existed: circlusion. If penetration is into, then circlusion is onto. Instead of “being penetrated,” the vagina, or mouth, or rectum, or sleeve toy—even cleavages and thighs—actively circludes the penis, or tongue, or fist, or dildo. The bottom—the person with the circluding hole, and sometimes the person who likes being called a hole—is just as much the doer, equally robust, equally in control of the action.
The hole is not just the rim of the opening into a person but the entire canal, the entire cylinder, the tunnel, the sheath. The vagina, the front hole, a cul-de-sac. The ass, the back door, a highway of twisting intestines, the inevitable other end being the mouth. Adamczak suggests more words: gulfing, circling, and gulping, all with the purpose of emphasizing the bottom’s agency. “The dildo and the penis function, almost unchallenged, as practical signs of power,” Adamczak writes, critiquing the assumption that a sexual encounter involves an active partner who is doing the fucking, a.k.a. penetrating the other’s hole/s, while the passive partner gets fucked. We see this bias in the standard definitions of kink terms, the idea that the top/dom/sadist is performing and the bottom/sub/masochist is receiving, as if the latter is in the audience and not themselves a participant in the pursuit of mutual pleasure.
Circlusion turns all fuckers into kinetic equals. “The verb ‘to penetrate’ evokes a nonreciprocal or at least unequally distributed process,” Adamczak observes, continuing, “being penetrated, like being screwed, is automatically imagined as disempowerment.” It’s true that colloquialisms like “fuck the police” and “getting fucked by the system” and even “you fucked up” imply that someone or something is being destroyed. As we know, sexual destruction can be a lot of fun; that being the case, it’s time we acknowledge that a hole, too, can ruin you.
What would change in how we think and talk about sex if we conceptualized the hole not as a void but as a tunnel wall of flexing musculature and feeling nerves that grasp, that pulse, that glide? “It is a contradictory feature of bourgeois ideology that effort gets causally associated with power in a society premised precisely on the opposite: power derives from the exploitation and appropriation of others’ activeness,” Adamczak writes. We take for granted that the fucking organ is the one in charge. “It’s remarkable how quickly this supposed link between power and effort is forgotten where blowjobs are concerned.” That is, after all, why they call it a job. The mouth is at work.”]
tina horn, from why are people into that? a cultural investigation of kink, 2024
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