Whoredonna:

Simone’s Notes:

In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna–whore complex is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud, under the rubric of psychic impotence, this psychological complex is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased prostitutes. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded, the whore, while they cannot desire the respected partner, the Madonna. Freud wrote: "Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love." Clinical psychologist Uwe Hartmann, writing in 2009, stated that the complex "is still highly prevalent in today's patients". In sexual politics the view of women as either Madonnas or whores limits women's sexual expression, offering two mutually exclusive ways to construct a sexual identity. The term is also used popularly, if sometimes with subtly different meanings.

Last night, Manami dreamt that she spoke to her mother.

“Mother?”

“Manami?”

“Mother, is that you?”

“Yes, my child. It is me.”

“How are you?”

“Good. Listen, do not forget your mission?”

“My mission?”

“Yes. The deities are going to fight back.”

“What? That can’t be possible.”

“It is, my darling. You have to be on your guard for this.”

“But… I have built up my kingdom.”

“It is not enough. You need to make your kingdom stronger.”

“But how do I do that?”

Her mother chuckled.

“You have to become the Whoredonna.”

“Whoredonna?”

“Yes, my child.”

“What is that” And do I become her?”

“Let me show you.”

Ai-Oni gave her one kiss on the lips.

In that one kiss,

Manami saw the answer.

When she awoke in the morning.

Manami knew what she had to do.