El varón domado

The German-Argentine psychologist Esther Vilar became famous in the seventies for daring to radically reverse the incipient feminist discourse by arguing that the truly oppressed in our industrialized societies is men. The Tamed Male develops this provocative thesis that ensures that women exploit for their benefit an entire system of domination over men through their seductive power. Vilar maintains that, in the manner of Pavlov with his dogs, women domesticate men using sex as a tool of manipulation and control, until they become completely dependent and submissive. By offering intercourse at regular intervals as compensation and resorting to emotional blackmail, women get men to work for them and shoulder all the responsibilities. And, at the same time, they ensure that their victims not only do not feel humiliated and deceived, but that they perceive themselves as the true dominators. In a time of suffocating political correctness, a work that states that "for women, love is a pretext for commercial exploitation; for men it is an emotional alibi to justify their existence as slaves" is much more controversial, if possible, than when it was published. For this reason, the reissue of The Tamed Man, fifty years after its original publication, is an invitation to dare to think outside the dogmas of gender ideology.