Cake And Sodomy

Cake And Sodomy

Marilyn Manson

Manson has stated that he wrote this song while stuck in a cheap hotel and flipping channels. One had someone baking a cake and another had a hardcore anal sex scene. The juxtaposition seemed to encapsulate some core concept of American white trash culture.

The song questions the puritanical mindset that sex is solely for procreation. Rather, it is the solvent of isolationism. The experience through which a solitary human being, caged in the prison of himself comes closest to escaping from the lonely bondage of life by uniting himself with another. This song may have some purpose in desensitising the hardened idea of random rough sex upon society’s normal outlook of it being considered taboo.

In addition to the 1994 album Portrait of an American Family, versions of the song also appear on early Marilyn Manson cassette tapes, Grist-o-Line (1990), Lunchbox (1991), Live as Hell (1992) and Refrigerator (1993), as well as the unreleased album The Manson Family Album. Remixes of the song (titled White Trash, and Everlasting Cocksucker) are also featured on the 1995 remix album Smells Like Children.