Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank-you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else-we either plan it or dream it.
📖 Azar Nafisi
In Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," the author discusses the profound disconnect individuals experience in oppressive situations. She draws a parallel between the lack of agency in a forced sexual encounter and the ways people cope in an authoritarian regime. The idea of mentally distancing oneself is a survival mechanism, where individuals pretend to be in a different reality to escape their undesirable circumstances.
Nafisi emphasizes that this mental escape...
