The typical sexual fantasy for women is to be violently gang-raped, according to a most-unusual essay 2nd-place Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders wrote in 1972. “A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy,” Sanders wrote to open the essay. “A woman on her knees. A woman tied up. A woman abused. A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes about being raped by 3 men simultaneously. [1] The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday — and go to Church, or maybe to their ‘revolutionary’ political meeting.” The essay, titled “Man – And Woman,” was discovered by the progressive magazine Mother Jones, which on Tuesday published a story on Sanders’ early years. [2] The story itself makes no mention of the essay, but it appears in a picture accompanying it. The point of the essay appears to have been to call for a sexual revolution to eliminate the disparate power dynamics of human sexuality: “Slavishness” for women and “pigness” for men. Greater equality for the sexes, Sanders thought, would eliminate their depraved fetishes.
This 1972 Sanders essay, published in an alternative newspaper called the Vermont Freeman, reflected his affinity for Sigmund Freud.
