{"id":1246,"date":"2016-10-31T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:22:41","slug":"wait-how-come-lizzie-gets-off-scot-free-obviously-what-did-you-think-i-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/2016\/10\/31\/wait-how-come-lizzie-gets-off-scot-free-obviously-what-did-you-think-i-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, How Come Lizzie Gets Off (Scot-Free, Obviously, What Did You Think I Meant)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes. I never thought I’d have to look up fetish terms for\u00a0educational\u00a0<\/em>purposes. Since the prof declared in class that BDSM is a legitimate topic of discussion, however, I retain my right to\u00a0go there<\/em>, as it were. Y’all have been forewarned.<\/p>\n

If “Goblin Market” didn’t make you at least a little hot and bothered by the end, then you must have the libido of a [comment redacted]. Honestly, the poem has a little something for everyone. Do you fancy huge melons? Or, in case\u00a0the vulgar connotation I’m suggesting didn’t exist in the mid 1800s, “fruit globes fair or red?” (Rossetti 4) There\u2019s also the \u201cravish\u201d fantasy, a kink to which Lizzie subscribes. The speaker mentions, in no fewer than two instances in the text, that being forced to consume forbidden fruit quite literally, uh, tickles her fancy (\u201claughed in heart\u201d and \u201cinward laughter\u201d) (12-13). And who could forget the \u201cjuice that syrupped all her face, \/ And lodged in dimples of her chin, \/ And streaked her neck which quaked like curd?\u201d (12) This juice, of course, originated from the goblins, who \u201csqueezed their fruits \/ Against her mouth to make her eat\u201d (12). In Japan, the sexual act in question is called bukkake<\/em>: multiple men ejaculating onto someone\u2019s face. Sounds like fun (as long as it\u2019s consensual, obviously)!<\/p>\n

Unlike Laura, Lizzie suffers no consequences from the ordeal because she refused to open her mouth and, essentially, ingest their cum (told you I\u2019d go there). In fact, when the sisters reunite, Lizzie lets Laura drink from the \u201cgoblin pulp and goblin dew\u201d in which she is covered (13). It turns out to be the antidote after all. Ostensibly, Lizzie\u2019s brave interaction with the goblins showcases her dedicated love to her sister. Read the poem again and you notice how wrong the concluding stanza is about the whole situation. Lizzie, you see, derived pleasure from refusing to imbibe the fruit juices. This is known in BDSM circles as erotic sexual denial<\/em>. While the short (and I think beautiful) stanza on page 13 goes on, through multiple similes, about how much of a stalwart paragon our hero is, neither she nor the speaker ever indicates that this was some onus. Au contraire<\/em>. Whew! I could use a cold shower right about now\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yikes. I never thought I’d have to look up fetish terms for\u00a0educational\u00a0purposes. Since the prof declared in class that BDSM is a legitimate topic of discussion, however, I retain my right to\u00a0go there, as it were. Y’all have been forewarned. If “Goblin Market” didn’t make you at least a little hot and bothered by the … Continue reading Wait, How Come Lizzie Gets Off (Scot-Free, Obviously, What Did You Think I Meant)?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/victorianlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}