Which is why I'm posting it at the end of the day. Seriously. Do not listen to this Ghostface ode to getting it on without headphones in, and then only do it if you think your boss won't mind if he or she happened to walk into our office and find kinky simulated sex playing on your screen. I warned you, don't do it. That said, I want to talk about the video for "Stapleton Sex," which Ghostface teased in part by using it as an excuse to reach out to Natalie Portman, who apparently likes her rhymes raunchy as hell:
This video is about the epitome of lesbian sex as a vehicle for the male gaze. The entire thing consists of a sexy female dom getting herself off watching tied-up girls shake it and a blindfolded and ball-gagged girl hang from restraints, while filming the action on an iPhone, presumably creating some of the images that end up in the video. (Okay, well, she does some spanking. And there's simulated penetration, too.) It's a particularly odd choice, given that the song is about heterosexual sex (there's, um, no mistaking it for anything but if you listen to the lyrics at all closely). Is Ghostface unconvinced that the image of him having sex with a woman (or a male stand-in with a woman) wouldn't be sexy enough? Or when you really want to get dirty, do you have to flip the switch over to girl-on-girl? The decision seems to say some profoundly odd things about perceptions of heterosexual and same-sex sexual encounters. The use of lesbians and bisexual women as entertainment is endlessly problematic, of course. But in situations like this, it seems to rebound a bit on the user.