M's real thoughts on Whoredom

Ok, this is for a certain individual that asked for it to be spelled out for them. Though it is slightly beneath me to have to, it is important that what I am saying is clearly understood. So, for the first time ever, I will thoroughly dissect my own writing and explain what I was trying to say. Its long and kinda gross, feel free to skip it, if your name's not Anonymous.
First of all, as you may or may not know, Scarlet is a name I have been known by, and still am in some circles. This has come from more than one source and, at points I have been strongly identified with the Whore, by others and by myself. I have decided this is innapropriate.
Apon reading the passage in Revelation concerning her I had a little vision. I saw a very young girl who had been tarted up in a slutty red dress and jewels, thrown to a gang of rapists and then blamed for it. I saw her bruised up, bloodied, oozing the fluids that had been forced into her. Again and again, and she is told this is her glory. Her sexual attractiveness is her value and her power. She is a prisoner of the beast. The beast representing (in my mind at least) distempered lust for control. The second and third chakras seriously out of balance. His biblical meaning is states and kings, and so this kind of fits. He also represents, to me, the patriarchy.
At the time that Revelation was written, a woman who did not want to be owned by a husband had few options besides prostitution to support herself. Then, as now, "righteous", "upstanding" men availed themselves of her services, relieved themselves in her, and then turned around and reviled her for her immorality and sluttiness. She would grow hardened, learn to take what she could from the men who had all the power, would learn to wield the one power she had over them for her own benefit.
I have talked to many prostitutes, I have not yet met one who wouldnt rather be doing something else. I have never met a single one who said "yeah I love that triple penetration with nasty fat guys all wired up on coke, that's hot." I have never met a single young woman that says,"My dream? To suck 10 cocks a day! I love kneeling to men!"

There is liberated sexuality, and there is it's dark side.
So I see a girl who has been broken to the bridle. I see the utterly powerless state of biblical age womanhood, girls trained to believe they have no value except as accesories to men. I see men using her as a repository for their sinfulness, their shameful secrets, pumping her full of it, then destroying her and celebrating the vengeance of righteousness over sin. Its sick, and stupid, and fucked up, and it pisses me off that someone assumes this is how I think simply because I observed it and wrote the poem.

Revelation 17
1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of a great prostitute who sits on many waters. 2With her the kings of the earth commited adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
3Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5This title was written on her forehead:

MYSTERY
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
When I saw her I was greatly astonished. 7Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and the beast she rides, which has seven heads and ten horns. The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destructionThe inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
9"This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come;but when he does come he must remain a little while. 11The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eigth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
12"The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet recieved a kingdom, but who for one hour will recieve authority as kings along with the beast. 13They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14They will make war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."
15Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16The beast and the ten horns will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
17For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. 18The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

And then we have Aliester Crowleys delightful take on her in Liber al vel Legis

43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered.
44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be covered with jewels, and rich garments, and let her be shameless before all men!
45. Then will I lift her to pinnacles of power: then will I breed from her a child mightier than all the kings of the earth. I will fill her with joy

Again, it seems she is left with little choice, and she must "kill her heart", her compassion, her warmth, her real self and desires, in order to stave off the vengeance of the beast. She must do exactly as she is commanded or the fate described in Revelation awaits her.
Now I have taken the imagery of the whore more literally than was initially intended, but this poem was an emotional reaction to something, not a planned statement. Even as a great city, the question still remains, who built the city? Who traded with it, fed it money and power, made a monster of it? Who filled it with wealth and therefore with greed, betrayal, addiction, competition, and remorseless predators? Who plastered it with billboards and graffitti? Who filled it full of pollution and pestillence? Who lives in it, uses it, and despises it?

Once she was a starry eyed young town with big dreams. She couldnt stop being what she is now if she wanted to, which she does at times I am sure. And when she is enough of a mess that we cant clean it up anymore, the world will smash her down and burn her to ashes and celebrate victory over evil.

Babylon is writhing like a dancer
(imagine her in pain and struggling, sexy in a half dead terrified powerless slave kind of way)
Babylon is stretched out like a victim for the slaughter
(because thats what she is)
Girlchild in a tight red dress
Swollen scarlet promises
(breasts, adult shape not yet fully formed)
obscenities and blasphemies tatooed like bruises on her flesh
(In the book it was the beasts flesh, but in my vision it was on hers. Artistic license, I can if I want.)
it drips with bloodred gems
and milky pearls
( semen and blood beaded all over her)
pumped full
of the worlds abominations
(she is a disposal unit for their shame)
her cup runs over
(the cup is symbolic of the vagina, but in this case could represent any of her orifices)
she is fed
the blood of the righteous
(Rev.17:6)
the flesh of the wicked
(think cock)
filling her throat
untill she is choking
drunk on her own degradation
stripped naked
pregnant with sin
despised by her children
(she is the mother of harlots and abominations)
enslaved by her lover
(the beast)
he waits to devour her
when everyone else has their fill
A scapegoat in golden chains
she rides high
on the horny beast
between her thighs
the shadow of innocence haunting her eyes
(this was part of the vision I had, her eyes looked like those of a scared and exhausted child, the Beast reared up with her on its back, she is held high above the world, poised to be thrown down, recognizing her own impending destruction)
disregard
(this is the point at which the poem is no longer merely an observation, the reader is being advised. We are standing on the ground looking up, listening to someone who looks forward to seeing her tossed down. I imagine the voice belonging to a spurned would be suitor, like the witch hunts that began with a man trying to seduce a young girl, being refused and then accusing her of sorcery to seduce him. "Dont let that innocent look fool ya, shes bad trouble." It could even be one of my exes.)
the harlot will fall hard
and we will be there to celebrate
her agony, we who hate
sin and lust
(I thought these 2 lines were pretty clever, because they can be read "we who hate sin and lust" or "we who hate, sin, and lust)
for the power to force her beneath us
(could mean casting her down into the pit, trampling her, or...)
and burn her as we burn
it will be our turn
They have told themselves they are fighting a monster, but the monster is themselves, projected on (or into) another. What you hate in another is what you hate in yourself.

Holy crap, that was exhaustive.
Anon #1, I hope this does suffice, because I dont like how you talk to me, and if you keep it up after this, I will know it is because you are an asshole and cant help it. It is obvious you dont know the first thing about the Christian perspective, since most real Christians I know would try to help her instead of simply making use of her or condemning her,(though real Christians in my experience are rare indeed, like true witches) in which case I suppose you could say my perspective is kind of xianish, though true witches and true christians have more than one thing in common.

I am definitely what you might call sexually liberated. I have chosen my partners as I pleased and experimented a great deal. I have indeed been shameless before all men. This has resulted in my being compared with our dubious heroine on more than one occasion, but I say female sexual empowerment has nothing to do with being someone else's slut.
So while I, and no other, AM the Good Queen Scarlet, I want it known, Im no ones slut but my own.