Miller-Young and Livermon suggest that pornography in general and Mandingo cucking in particular “are among the few places where our most privately held societal views about race are most revealed.” In “eroticiz[ing] the sexual powerlessness” and humiliation of the (usually) white head of household and performing the threat that the black man, with his sexual prowess, will displace the white husband, this genre of cuckolding also allows for the possibility of white men being sexual with black men by proxy, reframing anxiety and threat as thrill. Meanwhile, the white wife’s body acts “as a
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