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| Chess One 2006-03-08, 7:32 pm |
| Here is a very considered and mature appreciation of the role of self and
sex in society. Readers who do not like sexual topic may choose to read no
further in this thread, which is material obtained from a title by cultural
anthropologist Willima Irwin Thompson's book, "The Time Falling Bodies Take
to Light", which has a sub-title, Mythology, Sexuality & The Origins of
Culture. Copyright 1981, ISBN: 0312805101
The intent of posting this material is to properly frame any dialogue,
specifically, not in an attempt to escape it altogether! But rather to
suggest that on our Western tradition of understanding this /is/ the proper
and historical frame with which to view it, and upon which our laws are
created.
The reason to post this material here is that there is a sociological factor
of sex and society that has been raised. This material would place /all/
commentators and subjects within a contextual frame of reference.
Phil Innes
3/8/06
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Why does not pornography more often present sexuality with love, tenderness,
beauty, and adulation? Why does it so quickly slide into the imagery of
bestiality and sadomasochism? Why for every sublime image of Bernini's St.
Teresa in orgasm are there a million grotesque images in "adult" book shops
and latrine walls?
Pornography is the shadow side of myth, a racial memory expressed in
obsessive imagery, and as a twisted form of reflection of our archaic
inheritance, it expresses the shock of incarnation.
Precisely because we are more highly conscious than the animals, our
sexuality is intensified by consciousness. Homosexuality, sadomasochism, and
bestiality are neither inhuman nor "natural"; there is no such thing as
"natural" for human beings. To paraphrase Goethe, man is man because he is
not nature. In rituals of adoration of the penis and the whip, or in
black-leathered celebrations of male dominance and bondage, humans are
longing for constraint, for a compression back into an original, presexual
mode of being.
The caricatured emphasis on sex is not a celebration of it, but an attempt
to escape it altogether. Pornography, in a way, is indeed as the moralist
claims, "garbage"; it is the rotting compost-heap of old mythologies left
over from all the cultures of human evolution.
So for all our digressions into the sciences of sociobiology, ethology, and
anthropology, we have not escaped the world of
myth expressed in the Prologue.
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| "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Why does not pornography more often present sexuality with love,
> tenderness, beauty, and adulation? Why does it so quickly slide into the
> imagery of bestiality and sadomasochism?
Because then it would not be pornography but eroticism.
BTW I think you`ve posted your message to the wrong newsgroup ;-) althought
there are women in chess who do have sex appeal ;-)
Regards,
Jerzy
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