I thought it was a very innovative solution to the problem of the battle of the sexes.
I am gay - so this whole sexual attraction to the female body/form is something I cannot can relate to.
Nevertheless, my take on Crumb's headless naked female bodies is not that they're "disturbing" - but, rather, that they offer a practical solution when it comes to men's sexual needs.
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
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Depends...which "head" are you referring to?
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
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It is kind of disturbing, I think. It is a complete depersonalisation and sexualisation of the female body, reducing the woman to little more than a warm hole and a pair of breasts. With Crumb, it is hard to say exactly how much it is a satire of how he perceived the male view of women in the sixties and how much it is a symptom of his frustrated sexuality and/or his own misogynism in his younger years, but, in any case, I don't think it is a "practical solution", as much as it is just about women being used as, basically, nothing more than something for the man to use as he pleases, with her, not being a proper person, not having a say in the matter.
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