Anal has never been merely another act. It is the altar men cannot help but imagine, the chalice they are told not to touch. From the earliest pornographies to whispered jokes at the bar, anal sits as the crowned jewel of fantasy because it is forbidden. It is imagined as conquest, as privilege, as proof that a woman has gone beyond the ordinary gift of her body and allowed entry into the most guarded threshold. To men, it becomes the ultimate sign: she gave me what the world