‘음란한 고멜’에게 구애하기 : 비하와 증오와 혐오를 넘어서

Abstract

Sexuality does not only belong only to the private sphere, but also is related to the socio-ethical code. It becomes the obscene when it breaches the code of society. We are concerned that pornography exercises pernicious influence on children and youth. Despite many efforts to prohibit and restrain it, the demand and supply of pornography never diminish. Considering this, I presume posit that an 'imperishable life force' exists in lewdness. Likewise, the lewdness of the characters in mythology symbolizes vitality, fertility, and pleasure. In the patriarchal society of Korea, women were burdened with the ideology of purity and modesty. They could not fully enjoy freedom, vitality, delight, the right of self-determination, and the respect for their own bodiesy. They became the object of abasement, hatred, and aversion. However, lewdness may be the expression of resistance against prohibition, oppression, discrimination, and prejudice. Ma Kwangsoo created characters endowed with individuality and imagination, not obedient to conventional morality. His novels debunked the deceitfulness and the double standard for sexuality in Korean society. Gomer, the wife of Hosea, was has been branded as a lascivious woman in the Christian tradition. According to the allegorical interpretation, it is the way of God for salvation that for a noble man takes to take a lascivious woman. This article argues that patriarchal violence lay hidden in the traditional allegorical interpretation, and attempts to reinterpret that her lewdness was as a resistance against the patriarchal code for female oppression. It is the moment she turned against derogatory and oppressive morality that she became the object of courtship, with no more degradation and aversion. Men are not to be saved when they treat women improperly. The day men acquire the love of women, we they can enjoy together faithful erosEros which contains includes justice, fairness, compassion, and love.