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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| sex appeal |
| NOUN: | 1. Physical attractiveness or personal qualities that arouse others sexually. 2. Slang General appeal; power to interest or attract. |


Q.
What
is
sex appeal? A. crucial to believable biology and culture with supply and demand in any Model of Love Economics in World Building, can onstage Sex in the Story and issues of fantastic carnality, after all no less consequential and significant than in the innate
reality comprehensively overviewed, and with all the social drama of erotic transgression, indeed, such an elemental life long motivating dimension of the human condition and the world we live in or most any other, hence reciprocally integral to much the same writing competency as, and surely among the fundamentals of fiction writing, ever properly comprise a subject matter apart?

"Nothing risqué, nothing gained." ~Alexander Woollcott
What is true love, the course if which so seldom runs smooth? What are the Epistemology and Ontology of the heart? For it remains Phenomenologically unproblematic to state that any experience of emotion may be vivid and intense, all fulfilling Descartes' famous criteria of clarity and distinctness.
But Sigmund Freud revealed Descartes to be, quite frankly, as self deluded as any enamored and besotted schoolboy poet! After all, much that is intense, vivid and crystal clear superficially, nevertheless is all only the tip of the iceberg, with far more beneath the murky depths, both deep within and ever outward into the real world. In the words of James Dickey: “The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.” Indeed, subversive collusion, if any good, according to George Orwell...
For even love itself is empty of inherency and contingent upon wider context.
Love is not merely what one feels obviously, no matter the object d'amore; rather, love is the climactic revelation of how one actually relates to another, motivation and disposition of interaction along with rationalizing perceptions consistent to characterization, then all followed by a denouement of insightful free choice. "Sex is hardly ever just about sex" observes Shirley MacLaine. And Mignon McLaughlin expands upon that thought: "Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity."
Indeed, no matter how the author approaches sexuality, it remains that even the tamest "child safe" and most cerebral of tales will not be truly and utterly sexless, because even the most superficial believable characters must behave at all according to their relationships, roles and gender, among all other credible background to setting and amid milieu. Nor certainly Y/A, the Young Adult categories and genres, pandering and dripping with innocent preconscious desire. All consistently inexplicit, even perhaps without, by any measure, the subtly of racier subtext. Or else compelling characters must have a passion for something at all! And any prudish would be fiction writer to understand and accept even this little above, nevertheless to eliminate or ignore sexuality entirely rather than "tastefully" submerging sexuality safely beneath the surface, will write only turgid tripe. -Certainly if love at all is absent, especially from a child character, unless in psychological horror.
Existentially, what then is freedom, indeed for whom is freedom? The dramatic scene breaks down into Motivation-Reaction Units: Immediate reactions are often reflexive, but then conscious deliberation ensues upon what action to take next. Or does it? Life can only be lived forwards, but only understood or recognized in hindsight. Indeed, do we consider our options and consciously take action, or do our actions simply come upon us as we react to situation, and only then rationalize afterward? People often make their most important decisions with their heart but only then rationalize intellectually. Motivations and goals as ever set forth thereby, meaning as only created in the mind, interpretation, values, moral sympathies and empathies included, so often ambivalent, are not willfully intended in free agency but received and imprinted in receptivity as we discover ourselves subject all thereto. Most dramatically, relationship, the impression made by characters upon one another, often dawns upon the individual in emotional response to events unfolding. Only then is action undertaken, consistently with characterization, often giving rise to conflict and Setting The scene.
Stories are made memorable not merely in whatever empathy or curiosity merely as to the plot situation, but because of the reader or audience relationship, actual motivated feelings elicited for or even against the characters.
Playfulness reduces stress and brightens the mood. A feature of play is the self regulation of arousal and stimulation via individual control of the play situation. Play is active pleasurable engagement that opens connection and attachment, learning and growth. Playfulness and fun are attractive and disarming, signaling good will and flexibility. Human adults remain drawn to play. As Eve Tushnet expounds, Eros is deep reciprocal engagement bridging into alien difference. In the words of James Dickey: “The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.” And the very first fragile spark of that complicity may indeed often fly at first sight! Important spontaneous and intrinsically motivated playful genuine non verbal communication includes simple flirtation and joy of attunement play consisting of "bed room eyes," eye contact, radiant smiles, momentary immediate connection, attachment, shared laughter, fun and social "grooming" honestly eliciting values of any permissive sense of safety, imprinting trust and inclusion, even reciprocal comfort template learning motivated from the Natural Child Transactional ego state. But the moment is tenuous and fragile, irresistible prey for the villainous cockblocking predators, romantic rivals or selfserving hypocritically possessive and controlling jealous Moralistic prudes.
"Desire intrigues us, stirs the soul. We love stories about desire--tales of love, sex, wanderlust, haunting nostalgia, boundless ambition, and tragic loss. Many of the great secular thinkers of our time have made this fire, this force that so haunts us, the centerpiece of their thinking." observes Ronald Rolheiser in 'The Holy Longing.' "Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear." writes Erica Jong in: 'The Zipless Fantasy'. -fear and cognitive dissonance readily and dramatically exploited by villainous cockblocking predators, romantic rivals or self-serving hypocritically possessive and controlling jealous Moralistic prudes.
Even if not by anything so vulgar or blatant as any particular explicit sex act or most basic plotline of an encounter, enticement, onstage sex appeal or seduction of one kind or another or by one means or another may be crucial in a story, or otherwise, one way or another, for sex appeal generally to factor into relationship and interaction and provide the opportunity for one character to flatter, flirt, seduce, beguile, to motivate or influence, even manipulate, or, likewise, to be motivated or influenced, even manipulated, by another character, to succumb or to resist, colluding and abetting or refusing and defecting, trust or control, even in confrontation with sexual politics at it's very worst.
The three motivating principle cofactors in effective manipulation also applicable in pandering, are whatever the incentive and disincentive vulnerabilities of the target(s), the tactics of the manipulator(s), and time for the relationship to develop under whatever conditions, free or captive.
The phenomenon of manipulation is best defined as undue advantage from trickery via the exploitation of affective innate and conditioned triggers or "push buttons" to undermine and overwhelm, even barrage, resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target, via insidiously motivating subtext of emotional positive incentive and negative disincentive. –As distinct from open coercion alone or substantive disinformation, lies. Typically, the manipulator obfuscates the nature of their coercion exercised, along with whatever self-serving advantage thereof, whatever their own ultimate motivation.
Positive incentive manipulation or pandering is such as deviously appeals to value in fantasy and desire, love, sex greed, promoting false hope of whatever gain, in order to circumvent or overwhelm resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target. Whereas an example of negative disincentive manipulation, such insult as condescension that after all comes of love can be less painful than insult that comes without it, or more so, or equally so, as the case may be: but be that as it may, it is, in any case significantly more harmful. This is because insult provokes anger and hostility, but hostility towards people who even sincerely profess to love you and act on your own best interest is curbed and turned inwards, internalized, and experienced on the level of inner conflict of self-hostility, namely guilt. Such deceptive appeals undermining the target’s credulity and defenses even whilst actually exercising coercion constitute often likewise internalized flagrantly manipulative behavior, conscious or unconscious, selfish, indifferent or just desperate.
Indeed, no, it does not actually "take two to tango" given an intransigent antagonist one way or another aggressing upon an entirely unwilling protagonist. Indeed, in the words of Gustav Vasa: "One does not have peace longer than one's neighbour wants." Nevertheless, even dearest lovers, often no less volatile, after all, than the most hateful sworn enemies, may often find themselves bypassing, stressfully, rather than actually communicating smoothly, and thus raising tension until coming into conflict on different levels, even to the point of bitter quarrel. For whatever significance and expectations, deep as they might run, may nevertheless be revealed not to be intrinsic or universal, after all, but personal, variable and even antithetical.
Because variables of rounded characterization and situation from which levels of conflict arise, must include not only anatomical sex, physique, voice and so on, as well as mannerisms and style, together with sexual preference or orientation, sexroles, gender identity with double-standards and also the yin/yang of gender culture and stereotypical dysfunctionality, such as, incidentally, may also be associated Epistemologically as rational and Empirical Versus intuitive or not only culturally but more specifically to setting geographically as Occidental Versus Oriental
:All inner reflection upon life must fall somewhere upon the scale from whatever "masculine," practical, binary, linear, logistic, goal-oriented motivation ever put forth, versus "feminine," passionate, flexible, emotional, social, process-orientation, and even differing blatant and straightforward expressive emotional insensitivity of men and the often ever more complicated and convoluted insensitivity of women.
Indeed, how perverse the destructive and dishonest lengths that some people will go simply out of decidophobic conflict aversion, ultimately the devious nastiness and harm they will do, just to avoid ever confronting error or flaw of their own, and all starting from the putative motivating goal so blithely put forth or only implied, of never hurting anyone else's feelings. A position scarcely any better balanced than the seemingly opposite extreme, the puerile and Sophomorically maladjusted Fascist ideation of truth and honesty only attainable by the utter abandonment of civility and decency, all to be despised as bourgeois and effete.
Stereotypically, by upbringing, men have trouble expressing, much less
explaining, their feelings, and women have trouble understanding, much less
explaining, their reasons. And this accounts for how men and women
manipulate one
another. Because, to quote Sigmund Freud "that which is not expressed, is
acted
out,."
And so, men must
act
out,
according to damagingly immature
emotionality while women must connive according to disastrously half-baked plans
and dangerous social myths. Of course, there are also men and women who may
actually dysfunction according to the opposite gender stereotype. It all depends
upon the emotional path of least resistance under conditions of and on the
level
of
inner
conflict.
And just such stereotypic dysfunction will tend to influence audience or reader sympathy according to gender as well. Because the ambivalence of indecisive women leaves men confused or upset, while the ambivalent mixed signals of men make women frantic. Hence, Sadistic or controlling manipulation and ingratiating lies generally manifest as deliberate escalation of just such behavior in order to heighten the confusion, distress and suffering. Indeed, such are the different methods of self destructive problem solving of each gender. For cluelessly Occidental / masculine characters, even however contrived plot oriented problem solving, even to the lack of lucid and compassionate sensitivity, while, for disturbed or even hysteric feminine characters, even manipulatively pressing motivation unto melodramatic climax, no matter how needlessly tragic, plus, perhaps, an Oriental preoccupation with social standing and identity and all sacrifices pursuant to upkeep thereof.
Indeed, archetypically, any penchant for melodrama may be in some account be driven by a "feminine" or "Oriental" keen interest in nuanced social involvement, hence lack of rational detachment but hence flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity, weighing more variables productive and functionally in prefrontal cortex functions of divergent and broader holistic situational Gestalt synthesis and multitasking but paralytic, destructive, dysfunctional and oppressive in approval seeking and vulnerability to peer pressure with all to much stomach for Inductivist lies, injustice and consensus manipulation.
While, archetypically, men or Occidentals, by contrast, may be more interested in prefrontal cortex functions of convergent direct dialectical reasoning, single minded compartmentalization, focused upon one task at a time, cleaving of truth from falsehood much as victor from vanquished, without compromise, yet perhaps lacking in not only in compassionate and merciful accommodation or any other hidden agenda but also complexity, depth or subtlety.
Indeed, whenever, to quote Cynthia Propper-Seton, "Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction" and also, to quote Eugene Ionesco, "Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliché's" then there will always be ready obstacles to mutual understanding and abundant fodder for annoying Romantic Comedy.
Another common situational obstacle or stumbling block is often money, because of all effectively captive and sore travails! [the French word for 'labor,' literally: suffering] and tribulation entailed, inherent misdirection of extrinsic motivation, and because as long as there are profits to be made, not necessarily by parties involved, but by every industry of ostensible facilitation and recreation, everything will conspire to frustrate and draw out the search to begin with, let alone courtship thereafter.
"Chore-nography?"
Men are said to be happier with more sex and less nagging, as for particular example, towards any man's share of the housework in cohabitation. Reciprocally, women are said to be happier with less exhaustion from drudgery and more leisure for healthy sex. For as the old rhymed couplet goes: "A man must work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done." Thematically, is the standoff then, a Feminist sociological problem of gender equality and responsibility, the mounting distress of ever longer hours towards dual income and the ancient and once again enduring human struggle with endless travail itself, or just Transactional Psychodynamics of classic resentment and codependency?The failure of divergence is fanaticism while the failure of convergence is incoherence.
Is lustful infatuation shallow? In the words of Simone Weil: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." Freud named that nigh transcendental adulation and trust in that purest attention, the transference love, permitting the hither to hopelessly blocked and frustrated patient to unburden themselves, gain insight, grow and heal. But surely transference love is an aspect also of any infatuation. So, is transference love shallow or profound? The transference love is a projection of fantasy, opening profound liberation. The fantasy is of true nurturing acceptance and freedom from inhibition impose socially, liberating expression and outreach. But acceptance of what great Existential truth? Answer: Quite simply, sexual needs and urges. So, are infatuation and transference love shallow or profound? In the end, the question is one of value judgment.
To love somebody one must know them well, which takes time. The stirrings of lust are intense all-consuming fantasy and sudden passionate attraction to somebody you hardly know, even a complete stranger. So reality can get lost in the excitement. Overwhelmed by happy feelings of physical attraction people in the lustful early stages of relationship, can't keep their hands off of each other and think and talk of one another constantly. But when fantasy is eventually dashed upon dawning reality, lust peters out and fades. Whereas mounting obsession and dependency never do. And unrequited love or lust unreturned, often motivates overwhelming obsession. When one person believes they are in a relationship that doesn't really exist, or when one person is more invested in an existing relationship than the other, the foundation for an obsession has been laid. Love and nurture nourishes growth, but obsession is merely debilitating. If you feel like you have lost yourself, if you are always striving to please your partner without them doing the same for you, and if you find yourself making all decisions in your life based on the feelings and needs of the other person you could be dealing with obsession. And a rebound is a relationship that starts up very quickly after another relationship has ended, often actually as a means of alleviating the loneliness, in desperation to replace and recover love lost. But the old relationship often continues interfering with the progress of a new relationship. And so, rebound relationships are typically still impacted by unsettled feelings from the past. When somebody is on the rebound they are not entirely over their previous relationship, and struggle with unresolved issues therefrom.
Why then, must dearest lovers compromise and sacrifice all that is of real meaning? Why, only for a codependent false sense of security. Such are controlling fear based relationships. A zero-sum relationship is one in which the parties each gain only from what the other gives up, but non-zero-sum denotes productively actually coming out ahead. Reciprocal gains without reciprocal cost. Indeed, ultimately, true love should be free to Altruism, advancing the interests of the beloved, and deserves reciprocation. And so, what must accrue, lofty romantic perseverance and illusion, vulgar and cynical tit-for-tat, even jeopardy of the complete breakdown of trust? Indeed, the shortest distance, the straight line, is the least common path to any happy ending, if at all. Nor will anything so simple, with no obstacle or complication to keep the outcome in doubt, ever make for drama, only pandering at best.
Indeed, Problem Solving and Justification are reciprocal functions, one must be shaped to rationalize the other, with integrity or else into hypocrisy. Desperate as bullies typically are for validation in all disregard of sanity and reality, indeed only a complete amoral sociopath is ever surprised that harm done without regard to others may injure good will in return. But all first impressions tend to uncomplicated objectification, the stimulus response of selfish desire and gratification, for advantage, amusement, comfort or sex or else threat, revulsion and avoidance. Rather, it is the individual baggage of characterization that complicates. And the first question is neither of intimacy nor distance, but zero-sum versus non-zero-sum. Why, just possibly, even a deadly enemy may be intimidated into keeping out of one's way to allow the same in return, barely resolution forestalling zero-sum conflict for advantage at the other's cost, even to the ultimate.
A standard plotline is that of the uncertain tribulation of Romance until happy resolution. And as a common subplot, this becomes the development of a a relationship, an alliance necessary to further the main plot. Indeed, virtually all relationship of whatever kind go though stages, with choices at every stage, either to advance, stagnate, slow, reverse or exit, all beginning with some sort of first discovery, Romance even courtship, so to speak, even "the honeymoon," but cannot omit inevitably coming into conflict on many levels, misunderstanding, insecurity, power struggle, friction which is normal and even healthy (not to mention more dangerous obstacles of passion as denial, jealousy and anger), and in order to survive must reach acceptance in order to commit to substantive cooperation and collaboration or else progressively dissolve and fail, all the harder from which to recover.
The
Rules, so called, codify common ruthless
manipulation
by women, basically by gold diggers of one stripe or another. Although, if it
makes anyone feel any better, it may often be suggested that all such classic
feminine whiles and connivance are but the classic tactics of the oppressed,
collaboration with the abuser adaptive of real deadly
captivity even
dating from ancient
time frame. And even in recent generations, livelihood and survival remained very
much at stake.
But now a days in our affluent world, there is the painful luxury of reflection,
the
Socratic worthlessness of the unexamined life, and the tragedy of women
playing the same games, but playing so very badly, even seemingly
Masochistically, the
reality of
Stockholm Syndrome (even as
prevalent, by degrees) being nowhere ever near as gratifying as the
kinky
fairytale.
Intensity, uncertainty,
every
Technique
of
Suspense
plotting,
temptation, curiosity and hesitation, all the
sexual
tension of freedom,
autonomy,
choice,
responsibility, all calling to self-realization hither to inconceivable, the
permissiveness of emerging and
relevant
romance from crushingly repressive tradition of honor killing,
prostitution, arranged marriage
or cutthroat mercenary matrimonial competition around the world, is the outward
struggle with maddening indecision,
levels
of
inner
conflict as
often arises between desires and confusion or fear, between what one wants and
what one thinks one wants or ought to, desperation for
validation, guilt.
Between the crutches of insecurity and the yearning for genuine warmth,
fraudulent conditionality versus genuine intimacy.
Indeed, the reason nice guys finish last, is because the sheer cruelty and
emptiness of the old wretched game, and a very serious business it was, the sexrole
of exploitative cynical struggle for survival by womankind effectively
obstructed or
deterred from gainful careers reserved for their men folk, depends upon frigid
depraved indifference and avoiding the central
tragedy
of historical
Romance, namely the dire danger of involvement and grave sacrifice presented
in a man that a woman might care for, therefore useless from the perspective or
POV
of
a controlling gold digger, being however for real, emotionally accessible and at
all beyond simple control by
manipulation.
Now days, however, the rising standard of living has reduced real literal
survival pressure enough that emotional need emerges and
loneliness takes hold.
But the same intergenerational
Transactional "script" remains, now become
maladaptive.
Hence, not only do such desperate women still expertly sabotage love, but they
have lost the sterner stuff for effective exploitation of men. As a result, they
attain involvement, but mostly in the Ecclesiastical
futility of pointlessly unhappy
melodrama, aggravation and petty vicissitude. They have lost tradition and
still fallen behind the times, abiding in limbo and achieving the worst of both
worlds, a decided
dramatic
low point.
Hence, a sympathetic romantic heroine is one who finds in herself the courage
for
growth and
hope to reach out, and her romantic lead is he who awakens her. Otherwise, to
paraphrase Nietzsche, even a princess of fools is a laughable bimbo herself! -And her
Prince Charming is likely just another thugly playa.
Antithetical
foils.
All manner of situations, even quite unforeseen, may present any range of obstacles, from an empty bread box standing in the way of the perfect sandwich, perplexing riddles and secrets denying truth, engineering limitations in the path of invention or a natural disaster barring very survival, but also, no less, a bad hair day spoiling Romance or a misunderstanding threatening love.
The dramatic efficacy of revealing and motivated subtext is in frustrated desire, giving rise to need and ingenuity. Drama is the gripping and engaging tension-laden presentation of conflict on many levels, whether or not the storyline is even believable. Drama is conflict inherent to situation, conflict being more than merely an event, but a condition, a relationship. Alas, however, beware! poor staging or presentation of conflict on any level dissipates inherent drama. No Powderpuff Pitty-Pat! Throughout the plot, every Technique of Suspense plotting is heightened as things are made more difficult, the personal emotional stakes are raised, and character growth is pressed by worsening complications for an active protagonist. So navigate the various possible paths and dead ends and to find stories always dig deeper for insight into struggle.
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -
always darker, emptier and simpler.” —
Friedrich Nietzsche
Each event in sequence that follows from motivated character action consistent with background, must in turn initiate from observable proximate stimulus unless entirely emerging from inner life, and, either way, rather than simply remaining mysterious, known only the mind of the character, must one way or another be shown intelligibly to the audience, even if none of any other characters; either way, in turn, quite probably another vitally important plot point. Whenever the cause and effect chain ever omits such links, expect plot holes stumbling amid succession of unrelated events.
A. Tension, every Technique of Suspense plotting, anticipation, clues and doubt as to the outcome, hence pathos and, leave us face it, discomfort and aversion, may arise even from mystery, onstage sex appeal, the unknown, opportunity and/or threat, conflict many levels with an obstacle, events unfolding or outcome in any way in doubt. Tension is stress, and the innate or conditioned emotional, neurochemical and physiological preparative change or stress response to challenge, stimuli or stressors may be either distress and dread as to threat and emergency or eustress, the euphoric stress of pleasant anticipation, even sexual tension or the demands of pleasant activities in general, creativity, power and opportunity.
Even humor or comic relief depends upon foreplay, tension from an insecurity brought to a
resolution
or
climax
called the punch line, that may be either surprising or else even obvious and
anticipated, just so long as the tension builds and then crests. Teasing, well
meaning or otherwise, also cultivates and builds stress, tension. So does flirtation, but
likewise
manipulation,
rejection or indifference and harassment or threat. Tension, stress, can be
either
dystress
or
eustress:


Within the general concept of stress, however, we must differentiate between distress (from the Latin dis = bad, as in dissonance, disagreement), and eustress (from the Greek eu = good, as in euphonia, euphoria). During both eustress and dystress the body undergoes virtually the same nonspecific responses to the various positive or negative stimuli acting upon it. However, the fact that eustress causes much less damage than distress graphically demonstrates that it is "how you take it" that determines, ultimately, whether you can adapt successfully to change.
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Every plotting Technique of building Suspense depends upon pacing, and for greater tension, show don't tell, and never throw the emotional circuit breaker. By every Technique of Suspense plotting, the rising tension and of dramatic conflict signifies that the resolution of whatever the central problem is such as to increasingly press character(s) inevitably to take action in struggle with whoever or whatever the antagonist in some way that must one way or another bring the very values of said character(s) into question for them.
Or, most dramatically, an attempt at howsoever the wiser course may instead press a character into conflict on every level with their own motivating values for which they will be compelled to sacrifice the easier way because the moral course and the more difficult among free willed choices may so often coincide.
Of course, neurochemistry is bound to reflect changing emotion. But there are also clear special cases of the reverse, of emotion instead subordinate to neurochenical fluctuation, as for examples: puberty and menopause. Hence, arguing from sheer stubborn lack of imagination and circuitous reasoning, simply ignoring rather than howsoever investigatively eliminating all that is well known applicably regarding traumatic and environmental causation, springs forth the myth of endogeny, of congenital neurochemically spontaneous anxiety or even Existential depression, among other chronic cognitive or emotional states, together with the Stress Vulnerability Model of Psychiatric Disorders being flawed only in how what is called: biological vulnerability is, again, no determinant on it's own, being, of course, actually universal and even generally uniform in the human condition. Indeed, clearly the determinant is nurture, not nature or: nature via nurture [Matt Ridley]. Obviously, neurologucal heredity, biological evolved behavioral genetic nature, only and fairly consistently enables the Empirical capacities for learning by encoding from the Phenomena, from experience, from nurture, to begin with. Experience is also now understood to trigger epigenetic change in genetic expression. Fraudulent obfuscation and denial to the contrary on either count, are only the current preferred high powered junk science marketing tactic of the Psychopharmacolical industry, pandering to compassion burn out and desperation, "soullessly" mocking and trivializing such cherished illusions as the yearning for understanding and with them all Philosophically meaningful values arising from the deep wellsprings of human emotional needs. Whereas it used to be that when a patient complained of anxiety out of the blue with no trigger, administering the old talking cure, the Therapist would gently ask the patient what they just happened to be thinking of at the time, however supposedly unconnected to whatever mysterious attacks from out of the blue, and guide them past their denial into catharsis and insight. Instead, disregarding the mind still leaves the physical brain, therefore Behaviorism is routinely called into service in standing support of neurochemical Reductionism along with the myth of endogeny, comprising the long refuted blanket rationale for so often reckless Psychopharmacology.
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tories and scenes are made memorable not merely in whatever empathy or curiosity merely as to the plot situation, but because of the reader or audience relationship, actual motivated feelings elicited for or even against the characters.No matter the tone or attitude, atmosphere or ambiance, as evoked by the perfect setting, by Writing from the Senses, SUBTLE AND sensuously, with some reference to sensory perception in every paragraph, describing not only what a character sees, but hears, smells, tastes; the wind on his or her skin, the drone of insects, whatever, for richness of texture the senses remain key to Techniques of Suspense plotting and particularly to building onstage sexual tension and even aversion. Therefore, details of reflection, perception and experience must be chosen to draw out the moment that the reader may in turn be drawn into whatever the ambiance or other qualities of the passage or sequence, whichever point in the narrative.
Inevitably, to show or evoke characterization, wherein motivation should be apparent, even through thoughts, however expository, onstage sex appeal may dramatically motivate conflict on many levels, emerging through subtext, What Lurks Beneath and body language, all shown by way of each of the senses in setting, action and atmospheric tone along with the Subtle and Delicate Art of Doublespeak dialogue, may either harmonize with text, or in true Method subtext, all even disagree with text, subtly, so as to draw attention into a deeper vein or level of conflict by being subtly wrong , with the obstacles to love promoting sexual tension; love, hate, desire, attraction, increasing the tension and pathos of every Technique of Suspense plotting and anticipation, even discomfort and aversion, character conflict on many levels among the dramatis personae, within society, against fate or simply oneself, building upon levels of inner conflict, stress, desperation, indecision and frustration that must culminated either in resignation, despair, resolve or madness, not to mention Transference and the compelling transport of high fantasy reaching From Werewolf Sex To Bunny Love, not just Writing Love scenes, or if one prefers, Quality Sex scenes, but everything from the 'rules' for romance writing offering concise guidance for the dramatic plot structure of melodramatic pandering affirming and empowering girl cooties, all as doubtless programmed into the Computerized Romance Writer, to erotic role-play of the sage and sexpert advice of Susie Bright.
Certainly, all manner of sexual clichés provide more than just the warning against tired prose, but also an insight into universal motivations, key to more than just passionate sex scenes as a writing exercise. Sexual response is both innate and cultivated. Sex elicits affect and entails context. Sex, from furtive eye contact up to the exchange of bodily fluids and every surrounding ritual, is imbued with meaning and values by civilization, personal associations by the individual, and biological imperatives by evolution. Sex entails all that we are in all that we are. Sex brings out both the best and the ugliest. And thus, for believable characters involved in conflict on different levels and in situations that make any sense and advance the plot, sexual behavior ought to proceed from motivation and situation no less than anything else.
Sex, as it is so often said, is natural. And that becomes the rationale for pandering, even if in the guise of affirmation and validation, propaganda outright. However, the begged question remains. Indeed, as is often asked, is sex necessary? - And, distinct from just life generally, in works of culture, specifically...
No, of course not.
After all, there are videos of yarn to fascinate house cats! (For cats, as everybody knows, though some are quite affectionate, can often be of that particularly self sufficient temperament all their own.)
Indeed, any work bowdlerized and eviscerated becomes flaccid and desiccated, as stilted and inhuman as any moving lure for dumb animals. Believable and appealing characters, however "settled", must be motivated and behave and talk according to their relationships and sexroles of whatever milieu appropriate to the setting, even in the most cerebral of stories.
Even eschewing anything remotely explicit or graphic, the red hot purple passion prose, no matter how tame or "child safe", in capable fiction sexuality of some kind still manifests itself. For the key in writing to any younger audience or any other tender sensibility, is never actually expurgation, but simply toning it down or transposition somehow, but seldom in truly eliminating every trace of sex.
A story that isn't at all racy may only omit overt sexuality and strong undercurrents, not sexuality at all, which is an aspect of human nature, characterization, relationship and milieu, setting. After all, as the Good Book says, "the child is father to the man".
Certainly, all manner of sexual clichés provide more than just the warning against tired prose, but also an insight into universal motivations, key to more than just passionate sex scenes as a writing exercise.
Sexual response is both innate and cultivated. Sex elicits affect and entails context. Sex, from furtive eye contact up to the exchange of bodily fluids and every surrounding ritual, is imbued with meaning and values by civilization, personal associations by the individual, and biological imperatives by evolution. After all, suicide bombers are actually just cranky! For even the praising saints and poets yearn to be ravished by God wooing humanity unto Rapture! For is not God's story is also a Romance? And where once they sought to share narcotic communion, one day soon they'll only want to jack into the Net!
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As Freud was well aware, nursemaids where long in the practice of quieting colicky male infants into rapt and silent fascination, by stroking their little penises. Indeed, the more repressed these young women found themselves in their own private love lives, the more their work seemed to provide them with a more acceptable outlet. Indeed, it was even observed how the more modestly they comported themselves as young ladies, the more brazenly they where seen to sport with their infant charges. Above is the notorious and disturbing woodcut of Saint Anne the Grandmother of Christ, fondling and testing the Manhood of the Infant Lord and Savior, bade in arms of His Immaculate Mother.
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Why, even a real boy like Pinocchio, yearning for his Blue Fairy, may instead become beguiled and exploited by Dracula's daughter or even the pedophile Coyote spirit of traditional Native American cautionary fables! Or, more prosaically, in the course of growing up, any ordinary person might, likewise, simply become drawn, by a crush of any sort, to relate to anyone else more human, imperfect and complicated.
Indeed, at the risk of seeming unduly Freudian, with all those big eyed bashful peek-a-boo, cuddly bump and tickle, what, exactly, is 'Teletubbies' but the most blatant and puerile porno for toddlers?! Brilliant in it's simplicity. Or has some narrative subtlety eluded me, here?
Kidding aside, 'Teletubbies', targeted at the youngest viewing audience ever in the history of television, is age appropriately educationally effective, precisely because preverbal tots do respond. Indeed, the key in writing to any younger audience or any other tender sensibility, is never expurgation but simply toning it down or perhaps sublimation one way or another.
And the point of truth in jest remains, that the appeal of 'Teletubbies' includes such attention, contact and expression that is only arbitrarily distinguished and divorced from that which may be deemed sexual foreplay, indeed such that Freud might well classify as infant sexuality, and without which babies are well known to actually and literally die from neglect and loneliness. That is why, necessarily, controversy and ambivalence not withstanding, perception is shaped and boundaries are drawn not only for protection of the innocent, but also to define and allow some range of licit interaction at all throughout life, instead of complete isolation, or so one might hope.
Infant and childhood sexuality is often manifest in the intrinsically motivated non-directive initiative in entirely natural behavior of children, however awkward socially, and hence reshaped in parenting. Nevertheless, or so the theory goes, adults initiating sex with children and even pubescents, is to be so taboo because of the danger of subversion of normal development by manipulative suggestion, much less influences of bribery and outright coercion, all in conflict of interests and abuse of trust in fiduciary relationship. The growth and psychological development of children, then, must be scrupulously non-directed. But no parenting in general, even comes close to that benchmark. Moreover, by that high standard, our educational system, similarly destructive to autonomy, engages in ongoing molestation, however Platonic, that has engendered in the population, a pandemic of lifelong generalized anxiety disorder, and all for our own good! The problem isn't with sex but with love, with coercion manipulatively rationalized and trust continually imposed upon, of intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation as ever, and the corruption that frequently attends upon power relations at all. Though all such gambits and conceits must be embraced more poetically than scientifically, attempt has even been undertaken to quantify tradeoff between freedom and security, Thermodynamically!
One even shopworn narrative cliché is of recovered childhood memory of a pedophile encounter, benign and even nurturing because of being completely non-directive and entirely at the initiative of drives of infant sexuality on the part of the child, rather than coercion, manipulation or naive trust in fiduciary guidance from the adult involved. Then the memory is allowed to recede into the child's unconscious so that the child can return to sexual latency and normal development.
Indeed there is precisely such a tropic scene in the works of the master of literary pandering, Robert Heinlein. Indeed, it all seems something perhaps of a somewhat strained variant of the dramatic single never to be repeated tryst in the wilderness of Tristram and Isolde, then put aside forever upon return to society replete with socialized roles and expectations in the court of King Mark.
But any such true to life claim may readily be dismissed as deep seated denial, and just such credulous revulsion in turn likewise dismissed as bigotry and limited imagination. Similarly, much as peyote usage is supposed to be rendered non addictive amid the extensive rites and guidance, behavioral structure, of the vision quest, indeed serving even all manner of beneficial Psychotherapy even including recovery from drug addiction, there is also the romanticized notion from Cultural Anthropology of very young sexual initiation, likewise safely enshrouded in meticulous ceremony and ritual and likewise providing behavioral structure ruling out not only doubt and distraction, but mixed signals to engender inner conflict. And in Science Fiction at its most pandering propagandistic, every taboo imaginable has been flouted in both glowing Utopias and in horrific cautionary Dystopias.
Neurosis begins as those wishes of a sexual nature are shamefully repressed in childhood, from socialization in guilt ridden suppression of infant sexuality. Therefore, can it seriously be suggested or argued that incest and Pedophilia are traumatic only because of taboo? Where incest and Pedophilia simply destigmatized, as a consequence, would trauma be eliminated or even at all diminished? Indeed, is such a disturbing hypothesis readily amenable to investigation, save by decidedly unethical experiment? And what notions could ever be so boundlessly handier for fictional exploration, Science Fiction thought experiment and general all around shock value!
Does precisely all such blatant shopworn mythology then remain the vexing pinnacle of human self knowledge? What dangerous ignorance! Or Am I the only one in the dark? Even in optimistic stretch of theoretical imagination, and speaking of unethical experiment, given human frailty and inherent fiduciary conflict of interests, any stringent laboratory conditions of benign pedophilia would be no less utterly contrived than any tropic fiction. At least transition in public consciousness, from a tabooistic and traumatic rules-based socialization of children by those who know best, to sincere investigation into and respect for the sanctity of their own sensibility of comfort, does seem like genuine progress. Now if only that same principle can ever be applied to begin any serious reform of the ongoing Platonic molestation that is what passes for our educational system.
But even if utterly consistent harm from Pedophilia is not autarky demonstrable,
the dangers from Pedophilia remain manifest even if poorly understood and
whatever the well debatable causes, reasons and explanation.
Just imagine
struggling to explain the human dangers of Pedophilia an alien life form!
According to a certain extreme individualistic perspective, infants and helpless
mute idiots, should be deemed consenting merely by displaying pleasure. And
what an elegant highly principled ethics
of Pedophilia! -Indeed, in truth, somewhat tidy and simplistic, quite without regard to complex
unconsidered consequences in
reality,
especially under fiduciary obligation to the vulnerable. Likewise, every
known theory in Cultural Anthropology, ideology or literary trope of possibly
safe conditions for Pedophilia seems somehow of other over simplistic, unlikely,
extremely contrived and romanticized, fancifully optimistic and impractical,
smacking of the downright unrealistic. -And therefore remains, in a word, again:
mythological: imaginary, the stuff of fable. Speculation raising healthy
skepticism, nevertheless it all just needs work! In truth, we still have too far
to go in rendering average family life and education anywhere near safe and
wholesome, much less the cultural advent of any at all perhaps implausibly ideal harmless and nondirective
non demanding Pedophile encounter and consummation in nigh transcendent
consummate sensitivity, completely natural, impulsive, initiated and
motivated
by the child.
Nevertheless, what still undeniably complicates the issue is that children,
though clearly different from adults, are not actually asexual, and never have
been, no matter what we are more comfortable pretending. Indeed, babies denied
all tactile affection simply die.
It is even declared by
bio-science that the comfort sought by a perfectly normal child curling up in the
embrace of an adult care giver, if monitored and recorded with whatever sort of
biosensors, might often physiologically qualify as sexual, even if the very
thought scarcely occurs in the innocent mind of the child, never emerging into
consciousness. All that the latter
signifies, however, is that the boundary between what is benign and
what is dangerous to children, between what Freud calls: infant sexuality and pedophile exploitation, will
likely never be quantifiable merely
physiologically. Differentiation of the sexual from chaste isn't even to the
point.
Machiavelli recommends in war and statecraft, seeking only weaker allies. But can that advice find similar application throughout the entire rage of personal relationships? Obviously not. The problem of avoiding all conflict of interest, is that any desirable personal asset one might seek in another, can also be turned against you or to take undue advantage. And this is a particular danger in child rearing because actual equality of knowledge and ability is impossible and not only impractical. Indeed, the lines have been drawn so completely differently by different cultures throughout history. And culturally variable inconsistent arbitrary demarcation of the licit from the illicit is inadequate. The question remains: How ought we best see to both the safety and the physical and emotional needs of the vulnerable, and children in particular?
Of course any theme or trope of routine formal sexual mentorship even for the very young as in ancient days, in modern sensibility rightly raises concern over dangers of exploitation. And yet similar practices and secret rites as ever may persist in exotic foreign lands, still have their defenders even simply in the name of cultural sensitivity. Homosexuals often complain of growing up lacking socialization in homosexual love life and hence even somewhat attachment disordered and perpetually uneasy: There was no prom for us, they so often lament. Indeed, in that very perturbed sense of isolation, for homosexual age gap relationship may be viewed more sympathetically, in possible recognition of beneficial mentorship, though also, alas, somewhat in any tolerant condescension to homosexuality as already relegated to the perverse and insane in the first place. But what about any heterosexuals howsoever deemed or expected to be at all better socialized and considered more normal?
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.” — Oscar Wilde
So imagine boldly chalking out on the blackboard: Now, who in their right minds can actually be so gullible as to foment such mindless taboo and endorse any so simplistic and half-baked a mandate of social intervention?
Consistency would only be melodramatically typical of Manichean culture-war, and inconsistency hypocritical, even often howsoever typical and ubiquitous self-serving and exploitative cockblocking, as ever, the metaphorical foxes set to guard the proverbial chicken coop.• Deltans, Polynesians and Bonobos, oh my! •
“When authorities warn you of the [dangers] sinfulness of [having] sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
— Matt Groening, 'Life In Hell' citation from 'Basic Sex Facts For Today's [Youngsters] Young Folk'.
Provocative dress, expression and conduct, sheer lewdness and licentious vulgarity, is a fundamental right:
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In order to reduce needless true to life drama, maintain high standards: Don't ignore gut instinct. "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." [Solon.] Do not fall prey to wishful denial or overestimate capacity for change. Be honest and ask for what you want. Do they volunteer full verifiable contact and background information, or are they simply too cagey? Never struggle for the approval of the puritanical judgmentally self-serving controlling and exploitative moralistic hypocrites. Listen to what people volunteer about themselves. They may beat about the bush inexplicitly, or else then again, often they might even be entirely candid. Listen and attend thereupon. Observe also, how they treat others and mind the company that they keep. |
Pandering
if not as literally to act as a go-between or liaison in sexual
intrigues or function as a procurer, denotes similarly even however vicariously to cater to
the lower tastes and desires and wish fulfillment fantasies of others or most
specifically, thereby
to titillate and exploit their weaknesses, as even by
the most obsequious flattery in the guise of affirmation,
validation, and even
thereby exploitatively winning unearned trust by ploys of however
manipulative
and
dishonest
propaganda
manipulation outright,
even demagoguery.
Sex sells. Such emotional appeals or motivation, to the heart, passions, sympathies, gut feelings or even the lowest common denominators of self serving rationalization to malice, jealous rage, outright devilry of thinly disguised hate speech and self loathing. Quintessentially, the transparent lies of the Faux News deceive no one, rather they pander irrationally. Blatant hate and fear mongering propaganda panders to any lowest common denominator of basest instinct, also include loaded or slanted emotional appeal employing language that is calculated to get a particular reaction from readers. Pandering and hence the repertoire of propaganda, also includes out and out sob stories and soppy sentimental tearjerkers, even to be rated by the number of hankies needed! manipulating readers' emotions in order to lead them to draw however unwarranted or poorly supported and even well refutable conclusions.
The three
motivating
principle cofactors in effective
manipulation
also applicable in pandering,
propagandistically or otherwise, are whatever the incentive and disincentive vulnerabilities of the target or
targets,
the tactics of the
manipulator(s), and time for the relationship to develop under
whatever conditions, free or
captive.
The phenomenon of manipulation is best defined as undue advantage from trickery via the exploitation of affective innate and conditioned triggers or "push buttons" to undermine and overwhelm, even barrage, resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target, via insidiously motivating subtext of emotional positive incentive and negative disincentive. –As distinct from open coercion alone or substantive disinformation, lies. Typically, the manipulator obfuscates the nature of their coercion exercised, along with whatever self-serving advantage thereof, whatever their own ultimate motivation.
Positive incentive manipulation or pandering is such as deviously appeals to value in fantasy and desire, love, sex greed, promoting false hope of whatever gain, in order to circumvent or overwhelm resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target. Whereas an example of negative disincentive manipulation, such insult as condescension that after all comes of love can be less painful than insult that comes without it, or more so, or equally so, as the case may be: but be that as it may, it is, in any case significantly more harmful. This is because insult provokes anger and hostility, but hostility towards people who even sincerely profess to love you and act on your own best interest is curbed and turned inwards, internalized, and experienced on the level of inner conflict of self-hostility, namely guilt. Such deceptive appeals undermining the target’s credulity and defenses even whilst actually exercising coercion constitute often likewise internalized flagrantly manipulative behavior, conscious or unconscious, selfish, indifferent or just desperate.
Though certainly, there are, always, of course, if not drama per se, then other whatever loftier social or entirely artistic aims in any subject matter, delicate or indelicate, then again, for writers no less than their characters, pandering and personal disclosure alike often present such blocks and barriers of inhibition to overcome as self-consciousness or even sheer anhedonic Moralism and squeamishness outright.
Stories are made memorable not merely in whatever empathy or curiosity merely as to the plot situation, but because of the reader or audience relationship, actual motivated feelings elicited for or even against the characters. And any motivation may do!
Yes, leave us face it, sex appeal may simply pander to sensationalism and/or flights of fantasy, escapism and wish fulfillment for the reader's guilty vicarious pleasure. After all, as the old saying goes, sex sells! Blatant or subtle. Certainly, the erotic is a
value, indeed, an aesthetic category.But then, even food may serve as well, gluttony as serviceable as debauchery, also depiction of fantastic wealth or opulence, dripping with money, style, richness, beyond the dreams of avarice, old money, no less than royalty or nouveau rich regardless, optionally in contrast to crushing poverty. But there is no need to approve or disapprove of such wretched excess, only to show it. And what could be more vividly exotic than Space Opera fantastic far away planets in the world of the distant future? Indeed, there is no end to variation to sensory gratification which is but the least of of sheer wish fulfillment fantasy of any conceivable desire that may be vicariously pandered to, blissfully unobstructed by any obstacle of dramatic conflict on many levels driving any sort of plot.
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH - and leave us not forget: Death is glorious Life Eternal! The first rule of propaganda pandering, is that anything can most readily be either glamorized or vilified, formulaically, so that in the slippery slide from willing suspension of disbelief into the tenacity of utter credulity, vivid illustration takes on the very semblance of airtight convincing demonstration. After all, seeing is believing, as the old platitude goes, but ultimately, it is the mind and not the eye that sees. Never mind what history really teaches us. In the vivid pandering of unfettered propaganda fantasy that pretends all manner of daring and provocative perspective, slaves can be happy, totalitarianism efficient and humane, and even wild sex a real drag until the protagonist finds God! Even life and survival can be made wearisome and disgusting, heightened and ecstatic only by the thrill of self destruction, so that death itself may be extolled as transcendent and beatific release from all cares and woe, indeed in ultimate crowning fulfillment of the Zen Mystic's quest for futility, committed sacrifice making way for return to innocence in generations to come.
For beyond sensory gratification or material wealth, there are also not only fantasies of the ego, of power, importance and recognition, even love and acceptance in any context, passion, Romance, purest exaltation attained, darkest taboos indulged, if not ruggedly individual autonomy and friendship, then the most Heteronymous camaraderie under charismatic leadership, Utopia or transcendence. All manner of escapism, Fantasy, Self-Indulgence, and Wish-Fulfillment, yes, cruelty and suffering, even murder and suicide. After all, as C. S. Lewis observes, the only person who opposes escape is, by definition, a jailer.
But, please GHOD not just the belabored bludgeoning obsessions of the writer! Only tiresome zealots need to be pandered to and stoked upon every single point of dogmatic ideology. Of course, the most truly destructive is manipulative dishonest propaganda pandering to hypocritisy. But if POV will not be thoughtful and literate, then, at least let us have good trash, pandering if we must, self indulgence of the reader, not the writer, grabbing the readers, not beating them over the head. Remember to evoke the senses, show don't tell action that actually advances the plot. And building the tension of every Technique
of Suspense plotting, even in vicarious pandering, depends upon pacing.Because, to follow another old saying, capable writing still reveals something about human nature. Even sheer vicarious pandering in it's appeal to the universal fantasies of the audience. While bad self indulgent obsessive writing reveals far too much about the author. Particularly when it comes to such awkward self indulgence that only displays whatever especially obsessive proverbial "axe to grind", personal preoccupation, attachment or morbid fixation, prurient or otherwise, to the exclusion of all else.
Prolong the Agony
by making life difficult so as to motivate characters. Don't be nice to your character! No Powderpuff Pitty-Pat! Even pander to vicarious wish fulfillment, but also inspire pathos, anticipation, every Technique of Suspense plotting even dread and even the discomfort of sheer aversion. Stir any range of emotions and force the reader to empathize, to feel. That's what makes for good entertainment, a real page turner.
And so, leave us never forget error checking, but learn a lesson in writing about sex, from the euphemistically symbolic to the clinically explicit, even the
descriptive vocabulary and naming of body parts! from the past winners of The Literary Review's Bad Sex Award bestowed upon the most pretentious, tasteless, embarrassing, otiose, self-infatuated or redundant description of the sexual act published during the past year.nevertheless, perhaps the most debilitating of all fetish to fiction writing remains the overwhelming and unthinking compulsion to censor or to Bowdlerize. Again, of necessity, the key in writing "child safe" to any younger audience or to any other tender sensibility, is never true and utter expurgation, but simply in toning down anything even remotely explicit, skirting the central question by mere tender suggestion, leaving characterization, motivation and drama intact.
The surreally kinky fairytale of Stockholm Syndrome
The
will to
power may be benign, benevolent, malevolent or absent and
ineffectual, as per culturally acquired behavioral patterns and the content of
individual
character. As a matter of conventional sex, it is said that, one way or
another, while the pleasure principle of power, even if only signifying opportunity, arouses
men, it is mystery that keeps women involved, for better or worse, the worst
being to simply and blithely
act
out,
response to triggers of pernicious
ambivalent
conflicting mixed signals, even to the tragic point of veritable
Masochism and it's exemption from responsibility, even the sheer eroticization of learned helplessness.
Moralism
is Justificationist
and
motivated
from the Transactional
inner controlling parent and/or compliantly
decidophobic inner
adaptive child, demanding impossible and unnecessary justification in
objective
grounds for ethics,
often in
moral
heteronomy to
God , thereby rejecting as
imperfect, all conjecture, evidence and refutation from
criticality available only to
the Transactional
adult ego state. Masochism and
heteronymous submission
come in reaction formation in order for the neurotic individual to function and
seek gratification at all, even while coping with overwhelming and paralytic
feelings of guilt. Reciprocally, moralistic voyeurism
panders to, relishes and delights in even
while burning with envy towards, all that it so Sadistically and judgmentally
condemns. Moralism
hypocritically
panders to and
whitewashes unsympathetic fetish objectification in voyeuristic titillation and
Sadistically delicious overture to self
righteous self serving and envy, thus providing alibi
and
denial
along with
impunity in appeal to evil, mobbing, shunning,
bullying, ostracism, repression both in the individual psyche and in society, the
glorification of controlling judgmental sex negative jealousy
acting
out,
as somehow or other actually pro-social and benevolent. But of course, all
such revolting pretence aside,
hypocritical
cockblockers
are monumentally self serving, not philanthropic at
all!
Indeed, various manipulative and destructive cliques, particularly obscurantist cults and scams, exploit Stockholm Syndrome (prevalent in varying degrees) to draw in the mark in vein hope that things will begin to make more sense as the mystery unfolds. Alas, real life happy endings are never guaranteed in the face of passivity and love conquers nothing without backbone and the courage for individual growth.
The menace of the captor represents but also deflects a palpable threat of harm to the captive. And this makes for an
inherently dramatic and perversely absorbing good news / bad news situation for anyone who ever feels trapped. Bad news in the danger, good news in that it may be appeased, averted by manipulation, especially if redirection and then validation of intimidation. And that is all that may be needed for various degrees of Stockholm Syndrome behavioral conditioning of damsels in distress into the very worst Persecutor-Rescuer headgames, especially from early on in life.Alas, there are always those so tragically hardcore and deeply disturbed, genuinely masochistic and anhedonic, that only real danger and self destruction remain enticing, acceptable and licit.

All all others more fortunate, need never let reality spoil a good fantasy! Few would actually conclude that if war movies are good, then actual combat experience must be even better! Thankfully, just as roller coasters and other popular "barf-rides" harmlessly simulate the thrill of a nearly averted vehicular disaster, classic fairytale ravishment, bondage and captivity fantasies and erotic role-play can safely liberate into fantasy and teasing sexual foreplay all the classic drama or shameless melodrama, as the case may be, forbidden thrill and every other Technique of Suspense plotting, desperate approval seeking, of hope toyed with, of the captive struggling seductively to win whatever small kindness of the threatening captor or attacker and survive, and all manner of desperate desire to be expressed, received and fulfilled in an all to blatant and obvious paradoxical intention of "Reverse Psychology."


(Oh, don't tease me, please me!)
I
ndeed, the kinky fairytale of Stockholm Syndrome, by adamant denial unfettered beyond the burdensome restraints logical contradictions in hard reality, all of the unflagging faith, goodness empathy and connection of the innocent and unrecognized virtuous victimized princess soiled dove, can in the flights of fantasy of impromptu Psychodrama, finally and truly be vindicated by finally at long last redeeming their own unflagging faith in the biggest jerk, most hopeless confirmed loser or even the very worst villain, abuser or bully! I knew there was good in you, Daddy...
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For indeed, whereas, of course, true life captivity and domination typically feature only cavalier indifferent neglect, manipulative abuse and exploitation, the resentment and dependency of Stockholm Syndrome (prevalent in varying degrees) even of the fairest damsel in distress ever "protected," inspires in poignant denial and rationalization all the appealing passionate fantasies of desperate desire, romantic, kinky or even mystical, indeed partaking of even melodramatic fairytale surrealism, hallucinatory Stockholm Syndrome doublethink in sheer unconcern for reality to the extent of such tremendous gaps in plot logic and believable character motivation, either deadly in earnest, or all even just for ribald laughs and camp comedic parody.
Consumed in Ulterior Transactional quest for Existential Validation that all the suffering will eventually pay off, the Masochist, in typically feminine sexrole, perennially motivated by such extremely poor self esteem, does not merely take the bad with the good, but will not accept the good, if at all, except together with the bad. Trauma and betrayal increasingly undermine proactive initiative, often substituting irresponsible passive dependency upon manipulation and exploitation by others together with veritable aversion to genuine nurture that only risks vulnerability and disappointment.
Fantasy and denial com
e in surreal malignant optimism, sublimation explaining away hostility and abuse as expression of love, control and callous indifference as passion and desire, and imagining that there can be any resolution or happy ending for helplessness in toxic relationship, in hoping to reform, lame bad boys, bullying douchebags and outright scheming Malignant Narcissistic sociopaths, whist self sabotagingly shunning any one better.The delusions are dangerous, sad and doomed. Not all that is intense is intensely good. The realism of edge-play is for losers. But the exploration of fantasies running hot and deep, affords safer outlet, confronting our fears in drama, mocking them in farce, and even the experience of impossible fulfillment in defiance of all logic via sheer imagination in Psychodrama.

But what may actually yet be feasible is the nigh alchemic transformation of dysfunctional codependent trailer trash bickering into leather clad stylish hot vampire monkey sex! Again, all that it takes is the recognition of the surreal and an appreciation of the absurd. I know you want to!
Alas, women are all too often encouraged to take men and sexual opportunity for granted, and, no less prudishly intolerant than men, even to fear, revile and despise what comes to them too eager and easily, and in thrall to Stockholm Syndrome, to dread the forbidden fruit and wait patiently and even in some sort of erotic suspense for approval or permission that will never be forthcoming. Thus indecisive and unfulfilled, they think they keep their options open while squandering all. Clearly the kinky fantasy is eminently more fulfilling than the true life dysfunctional banality! But then, after all, beyond sheer pandering alone, good dramatic stories are seldom happy.
angst does not equal depth
In truth, for the most part, men are either genuine,
reasonably forthright
and therefore accessible, "easy," or else only more
manipulative
not thereby and deeper or really any more chaste. Clearly a
fraud that any woman might
grow out of by consulting an
honest man. There are also genuinely shy men,
of course, despite how such may unfairly be regarded as a little odd! And all of this is uncomplicated.
After all, any real woman ought to have the right stuff to
seduce a shy man,
unless she's completely self-absorbed.
But the drama of real complexity and depth of character, however, arises from empathy, regret and analytic disposition, and not just any level of common inner turmoil and conflict whatsoever. Alas, the vulgar preference and penchant for predictable melodrama, in both art and a life of senseless
headgames full of pointless tribulation. And this is corruption in the Nietzschean sense, the subversion of instinct, the preference for the disadvantageous, all against which the struggle of true Feminist empowerment, no less than the Causeless Compassion of a mythic Wonder Woman, must fiercely contend.In the words of Toni Morison: “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” For as Eve Tushnet points out in Eros and Education, even so integral and elemental a vital impulse as sex is meaningful expression of Eros, more than the quest for completion and transformation, the oft frustrated desire for connection, liberating union with alien difference inevitably first demanding resolution out of conflict on any level arising from whatever dread of the vulnerability entailed. "Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear." writes Erica Jong in: 'The Zipless Fantasy'. Even the very
Art of Active Reading and listening is far from passive, intellectual and interpretive participation entailing construction of alternative narratives, imagination and visualization, adjustment of emphasis to suit one's own interests, and assembly of the story or information into whatever the cognitive schemata and context that make up one's own systems of knowledge and belief. But as Eve Tushnet concludes: "A union in which one partner is not vulnerable is an invasion; if neither partner submits, it is an armed truce. [And] Neither of these experiences frees us from the tyranny [and intrinsic loneliness of self involved banality]."So inextricable seems Eros with the conflict on so many levels that is engendered as often to be associated with Eris (Discord) and even Ares the god of war. Perhaps hence, foremost among sexual fantasies with great popular appeal are the stand by Archetypes of Romance including Dangerous Heroes and Soldiers, or challenging aid distant macho personalities such as airplane pilots. In the words of James Dickey: “The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.”
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Jury nullification is the endeavor to gain acquittal nevertheless, in even darkly absurd tacit conspiracy with a sympathetic and complicit jury fully knowing and understanding the defendant to be entirely guilty. Traditionally, jury nullification finds long and ugly application primarily to revenge killings and, indeed, the most blatant and unambiguous forcible rape. So, what possible sympathy could there be for rapists, except from other at least potential rapists, in fear that anything at all howsoever alarmingly deemed normal or customary and reasonable being in danger of actually becoming treated as actually criminal as under the law? Over every desire or aggravation imaginable, we have all had our feelings toyed with. Should a victim of such actually ever be permitted or even encouraged whatever forceful redress by their own hands?` Or does the very premise collapse under its own weight? In specific, what about implications of forcible rape as ad hoc restorative justice in remedy for blue balls? Seriously: Surely anyone of so pitilessly low a moral standard, may also likely have a similarly either chronically enraged or coldly sociopathicly low threshold of temptation to begin with.
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Synopsis: Meet Sedgwick Exeter,
SEXtER
for short, always seen grinning as his thumbs dance across the controls if his
smart phone at lightening speed. For
SEXtER
is community organizer, renowned in the community for his ready wit and mastery
of humorous vulgar double entendre and innuendo in to the most routine and
pedestrian communication. But little does anyone suspect the darker purpose
concealed behind all of
SEXtER's
clowning. For ensnaring his prey with provocative SMS,
SEXtER
goes meting out his own brand of poetic justice upon all manner of sex
offenders, either who have evaded the law, or are devious enough to operate with
impunity.
SEXtER
regularly volunteers at a rape crisis center, where his sense of humor is overlooked
in light of his dedication and hard work, in order to track down fresh
leads.
SEXtER
sodomizes serial rapists flouting the law, and captures spouse
beaters (mostly male, but not all) in order to keep them as sissified domestic
slaves!
SEXtER
stalks, infiltrates and brutally humiliates and intimidates privileged and
powerful corporate sexual harassers, and then silences them by blackmail.
SEXtER
robs and breaks the heart of an amoral sweetheart
scammer, and returns the ill gotten gains to the victims.
SEXtER
dishes out penance to a rehab group of pedophile
priests under church protection and cover up. Then one day at the rape crisis center,
SEXtER
discovers several vulnerable rape victims being driven away, facing further
abuse from serial false accuser whom
SEXtER
immediately recognizes as an old crony of
the corporate sexual harasser, a Munchausen demanding all the attention for
herself exclusively and who seriously undermines operations at the rape crisis
center with her constant intrigues and
acting
out.
So
SEXtER
exposes her and destroys her credibility, and then later rapes her. And as with the
fabled boy who cried wolf, no one believes or sympathizes anymore.
We finally flashback to the origin of SEXtER, when SEXtER finally gets a lead on his own brutal serial rape gang and takes savage revenge. Meanwhile, as SEXtER learns, the serial false accuser, a fragile personality as it turns out, has made a suicide attempt. And then one of the rape gang, a fugitive from the law, dies from infection and intestinal hemorrhage before SEXtER can track him down again and drag him forcibly to the hospital. And this last incident finally brings SEXtER onto Dexter's proverbial radar, as SEXtER finally begins wrestling with doubt and remorse. Dexter intercepts the identification of Sedgwick Exeter from genetic markers of the seamen found in the dead rapist, and then derails the investigation in order to have this new prey all to himself. Dexter then begins tracking down SEXtER even as SEXtER hunts the leader of the brutal rape gang whom SEXtER then engages in epic battle. Finally, with his own long ago brutalizer at his mercy, SEXtER savors the moment. But the hardened leader of the rape gang is uncowed, and spits right in SEXtERs eye, laughing that nothing SEXtER can do to him will be any worse than what he has already endured many times in his own life. Stunned in a flash of insight, SEXtER finds himself identifying with his nemesis, and commits the ultimate and unendurable invalidating cruelty in forgiveness, turning his back and walking away forever. Dexter, having arrived just in time to bear witness, muses that SEXtER has accomplished that which has so long eluded Dexter, by overcoming and leaving behind the dark passenger of obsession and violence. But as fate would have it, the leader of the rape gang is also a killer, now at Dexter's mercy! But leader of the rape gang, cornered all over again, summarily botches a suicide attempt...
he Sweetheart Scammer
Scapegoating and bullying the nervous and seedy looking loners may be a time honored staple of typical bogus security theatre, that tiresome spectacle and commotion of vigilance that does so little of any real help. For actual capable sociopathic predators are either difficult to spot and/or socially well integrated, extremely presentable, even influential abusers of power. Howsoever charming predators often groom not only the trust and forbearance of their intended victims, but the complicity of their cronies as well as mass confusion and bystander apathy. Indeed the Sweetheart Swindle is typically a long, drawn-out process in which the con artiste nurtures a relationship while inventorying their assets, in order eventually to convince their victim to send money repeatedly over an extended period of time. And social integration in good standing into various peer groups likewise bilks them all of social capital so readily leveraged in all manner of bullying abuse and exploitation.
A slick professional congame typically comes replete with a cast of persuasive supporting characters and well staged settings. In every new variation upon the same tried and true to life dramatic plot, one way or another, the confidence trickster or: con artiste typically generally pretends to befriend their target. Indeed, the romance scammer in particular, is the ultimate "playa", locating and investigating the potential victim, called a 'mark' or a 'target' and then gaining their confidence, exploiting their needs and weaknesses, play upon the mark's sympathies, with divisive tactics of social isolation and covert relational hostility, maneuvering, luring, brainwashing, manipulation, professing undying love ('you're the one/ their soul mate') and even desire to be wed, even actually marrying their marks though of course then ever straying already in efficient search for the next mark; offering to care for the mark, determining exactly how much the mark will contribute for the sake of the relationship: money, sex, emotional investment and more...
Whereas a coward not on the level and pressed for
salient details no matter how ingeniously, and should intimidation then fail,
can only retreat behind indignation and break off, by contrast, statistically,
with any real brazen con artist, the marks who get taken tend actually to spend
more time and due diligence in their own research and scrutiny of whatever the deal than
those who don't take the bait.
For concerned third parties, the question of intervention, whether to confront
either the con or the mark, or else to simply to ignore their own suspicions, is
a dilemma fraught with
conflict and
strife, even the risk if estrangement from the mark even deeper into isolation.
Anger and patronizing
manipulation
that are often divisive enough to destroy better relationships, can only make
the con seem the more forthright by comparison, and actually strengthen
solidarity, especially if the con functions less as a capable and competent
sociopathic crook but simply more like unto an unmanageable and even vulnerable
neurotic. The happiness derived from the relationship is often quite real to the
mark, assuaging loneliness and
offering hope.
Lies, stalling and misdirection will typically be laced with enough truth to at all seem
credible, whilst playing games to test the mark's resolve, toying with them
("I'm so confused" or "I'm not sure" or "I think you deserve better than me")
and making great shows of affection - often publicly (buying the mark a ring,
often a worthless or perhaps stolen from a previous victim), public proposals,
flowers to your office, etc. Then cheating on one mark or disappearing while
they set up the next mark and ultimately forestalling action by law enforcement
[by making you promises and by threats - reporting the mark as a 'stalker' or
complaining of harassment, even calling Child Services or Animal Control on the
mark, more and worse...
The let down at the end is designed for maximal financial, logistical, socially
and emotional devastation, in order to make effective counter offensive, not
knowing where to turn anyhow, even all the less likely. In case of an affinity
scam particularly, networking and targeting fresh marks, the perpetrators will
want the freshly victimized out of the way as quickly and quietly as possible.
Indeed, then there are those con artists who actually specialize in exploiting the
very needs and vulnerability entailed in fresh rebound from a previous congame,
all in
order immediately to repeat the cycle! Or else the scam may even quickly
escalate to the most dangerous violence and extortion outright.
y is sex significant?
A.
Certainly as such literary tactics as above have been well and good enough even for such "corrupting" giants as Shakespeare not to mention God (for those who still embrace The Good Book as divinely inspired [and not to mention supremely smutty, but study the notoriousSex is central in the human condition, history, speculation, culture, creativity, life exploration, yearning, fantasy rapture and ecstasy, horror, shame, tragedy, character development, identity, discovery, values, expectations, ideals and taboos, cultures, social commentary, satire, history, current events, and any projected future or fictional society, at least human and realistic, saturation aside. Sexuality will always reflect the evolution of biology, culture and technology.
Whereas in pornography the sex is always good but all the reader remembers is the intensity of the orgasm, to quote John Casey, in Romance Fiction, show and bring to life “…the swoon, the delicious palpitations of one’s heart is the real eroticism.” -which is to say, feather
soft core. Differences sex writing for men and womenIndeed, although onstage sex may also figure prominently in the surreal or for shock value, the key to any dark erotica being fear and lust, while sex made ugly recalls the brutality of life, and Bedroom farce or Restoration Comedy of Manners makes dry whit of the discrepancy between real life and behavior with the outward conventional appearance of good order which people strive to maintain in a given milieu, in Science Fiction, as a facet of inventive and convincingly different evolutionary adaptation to other worldly environmental extremes, novel reproductive exobiology is often key to successful motivated characterization for more truly alien beings, otherwise all Zen futile and Tantric.
Of course, an enduring theme, essential understanding or recurring concept, as often conveyed via some symbolic Objective Correlative motif or topos, in 'Star Trek', remains the sexuality of different Humanoid cultures and species, usually either in correlation or counterpoint to their established characterizing general attitude extremes.
And, always, there are also a plethora of variations (beginning with the basics of sexual orientation or preference), that, save, possibly, for associated taboos actual or fictional, tend to be interchangeable in most possible stories, that nevertheless remain of intense interest and concern to audiences, thus tempting easy and endless recycled standard plotlines with just such superficial changes, seldom doing justice neither to the real life social
drama of erotic transgression nor to the thrills and agonies of clandestine relationships.Otherwise, sex at all may actually become conspicuous by it's absence, as when writing celibate saints, loveless ghouls and passionless automatons. Unless, perhaps, even Platonic relationships may find some other focus of passion, tension and conflict, none the least, deep emotional needs.
And so, manifestly, the entire range and depth of fiction, meaning, value, life itself, imagination and exploration, lies in that vast excluded middle between unrelenting, rampant and myopically prurient fixation at one extreme and domineering knee-jerk puritanical sanitization on the other. But obsessive dull witted prudes 'n' pervs alike, just don't get it!
And yet instead, Reactionary Moralism only reemerges in new trappings and guise: Indeed, the only Atheists who deny Evolution are the Communists. For no matter how creatively Capitalism ever mutates for the better, the Communists like all Utopists remain scornful of progress in very principle. In truth, no less than the Christianity they have so forsworn, they simply disapprove of greed.
Taboo:
Forbidden
therapy:
$filthy
lucre$
In
Communism no less than in religion
or
Zen,
it is Moralistic to locate the problem with individuality and selfish desire to begin with. Hence
Religion strives to redirect
worldly desire into yearning for
God,
Zen
to crush the
spirit
ego, and Communism to bring about the purely altruistic new Soviet Man.
Morality may serve as a
motivation
of individual restraint in curbing
amoral
harmful action, whereas Moralism seeks to govern by principles and
expectations of the highest morality on
the part of each citizen, and indeed by the annihilation and
reconditioning of of
guilty impulses thereby however only to engender guilt and
inner
conflict.
Indeed, in the words of H. G. Wells: “Moral
indignation is jealousy with a halo.” Alas however, Moralsm remains a
doomed enterprise for under any conceivable social order or economic system
because just as in nature, so long as there is any advantage to be gained in
dishonest
unfair play, a certain percentage of the population will. And it is
difficult enough at all to curtail the worst abuse of the worst offenders
and tending to whatever damage control and harm reduction or sensibly
dealing with cultural and economic circumstances of social ills and
malfeasance, all even without deranged wasteful and destructively
unrealistic Moralistic social programs of ever simply
bullying the entire population wholesale into perfect selfless little
angels.
Masochism and
heteronymous submission
then come in reaction formation in order for the neurotic individual to function
and seek gratification at all, even while coping with overwhelming and paralytic
feelings of guilt. Reciprocally, Moralistic voyeurism
hypocritically
panders to, relishes and delights in even while burning with envy towards,
all that it so Sadistically and judgmentally condemns. Moralism
hypocritically
panders to and whitewashes unsympathetic
fetish objectification in voyeuristic titillation and Sadistically delicious
overture to self righteous self serving and envy, thus providing alibi and
denial
along with impunity in appeal to evil,
mobbing, shunning,
bullying, ostracism,
repression both in the individual psyche and in society, the glorification of
controlling judgmental sex negative jealousy
acting
out,
as somehow or other actually pro-social and benevolent. But of
course, all such revolting pretence aside,
hypocritical
cockblockers
are monumentally self serving, not philanthropic at all! Nor has Moralism as
has, as well shall see, so continually undermined any sound public policy of sexual
health, ever otherwise well served the public interest.
And though nevertheless, some actually even do so Moralistically decry that effortless weight loss and management would be facilitated in the advent of the thin pill, even in the face of perpetually ecstatic gluttony, all without effort and sacrifice, would eliminate the virtuous discipline and character building derived from arduous exercise and diet under the natural punishment for unnecessarily consuming food so desperately needed for immediate survival by the masses of those inescapably trapped in impending sickness and death by starvation and malnutrition, at least no one seriously predicts the moral downfall of modern society from the improved per capita mass market sex appeal as resulting from an on average vastly slimmer citizenry, the way they so often do population explosion as somewhat erroneously projected consequence from extended youth and life!
True, it is, indeed, manifestly unfair, how the rich, but not the poor who starve, can pay inflated prices for food during crop failures. Moralism dwells upon that aspect of the problem to the exclusion of all practicality, entirely ignoring how even the most virtuous diet and exercise, transmit not so much as one calorie of food to the desperately malnourished. In the end, Moralism, angry judgment and sacrifice without compassion or generosity, is as heartless as it is irrational and impractical. Rather, Hedonism is what inspires sympathy for any who suffer, and efficiency is what drives solutions to all wont.
And likewise as with curtailed gastronomic pleasure, in the end, statistically, the ever virtuous slut-shaming Moralism of consistent proper usage of condoms, a frustrating and purpose defeating technology, and yes: for women too and not only for men, is little different from that of abstinence outright. Compassion and reason demand abandonment of manipulative propaganda and Behavior Modification, instead, indeed the very farthest from suborning or condoning heedlessly unprepared unsafe behavior, actually engaging with the public from reciprocal Transactional inner adulthood and respect for intelligence and autonomy in the responsible dissemination of substantive information however taboo, of the various tradeoffs entailed with the entire range of safer sex strategies, meanwhile striving ever to discover and implement ever more effective but also reliably convenient and unobtrusive technologies to the market as quickly as safe and possible.
The priceless unthinking bile of Rush Limbaugh has at least once even achieved the philosophical Zen malapropism of a Yogi Berra: “Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy - every time it's tried.” Though, truth be told, the very same blithe irony actually applies no less, regarding the glorified semi-abstinence of condom use, not surprisingly far more successful under laboratory conditions than in the field, due much to the same or similar obvious inevitable and intractable threshold of frustration and temptation, drunk, stoned or cold sober.
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precisely such Moralism compounds the harm even further still:
And though while it may even be all but presumed to bash domineering pleasure centered males, it will be especially dangerous for any woman even so much as to admit the ability to discern flesh from plastic. Natural sex is always better, and secret disgust with condoms is therefore entirely understandable. Freud's criticism of condoms as alienating, is often conveniently forgotten under the rationalization of how the technology, indeed, has improved. Modern condoms are actually less obtrusive, therefore, however, it follows, only that much less icky, stridently alienating and therefore only the more prone to dismal and denial into the lurking unconscious.
For shameful socially inconvenient human
motivations
do not simply fade away, never to return. Indeed, in the words of Sigmund Freud:
"That which is not expressed, is
acted
out."
People break before condoms do!
Yes, oppressed women cannot negotiate
safer sex, but neither can free and equal sex partners negotiate the trade offs of the various safer
sex strategies other than condoms, unless they can find the
autonomy to resist conformity and think for themselves; because, actually
initiated driven and
motivated
by the ever
And sheer physical gratification can never truly be so neatly compartmentalized from the emotional comfort of palpable interpersonal contact, both undermined by the frustrating and even emotionally hurtful tactile barrier of the condom.
Condom usage as the only socially acceptable condition of sexual intercourse, remains a patronizing, intolerant and foolish strategy towards the inculcation of a partial abstinence, flying in the face of human nature and doomed to significant partial failure no less than abstinence only education is to fairly complete failure. I have only ever made the unfortunate acquaintance of but one person for whom condoms are actually enticing, and he is an emotionally unstable retarded rubber fetishist. Perhaps all that suggests a more potent behavioral conditioning solution to the problem at hand. I shudder to think!
Of course, any focus upon STD control, may tend to leave birth control as a separate issue. And it's no secret either, how crisis pregnancy is more often actually motivated by psychological unloved feelings of inadequacy, demonstration of potency and every social dysfunction whereof such unhappiness emanates, and in truth no accident, simple birth control failure, or even, really deep down, anything to do with howsoever sentiment towards the unborn.
Therefore, societal response is typically misguided, even surreal in absurdity, entirely inappropriate and in need of strategic reform in order to discover and contend with the real issues. Under any circumstances, self control tends to be by far the more debilitating under pressure than by at all free choice however constrained by circumstances or situation. That is why, until inoculation against and/or cure for AIDS, a more effective responsible respectful autonomy supportive sex-positive approach to AIDS prevention, might include dissemination of up to the minute research following optimal development of every promising resource and good information about all tradeoffs variously entailed in every known strategy towards safer sex. Indeed, anything so redemptive of the dignity of sex for pleasure, might at the same time also even help at whatever the true root socio-psychological impulses behind many a crisis pregnancy, as well as the pandemic shamefully repressed and inhibited inability to function sexually unless intoxicated, which fairly well rules out safer sex.
Indeed, politically incorrect as it has been to admit, both men and women have been known to report any degree of actual physical pain from the use of condoms, tolerated from fear of risking STD transmission or pregnancy, so, again: might that not pose anything of a false dilemma? Two alternative strategies available for autonomous and sensible people, have been ever less obtrusive spermicidal products ever coming onto the market, and ever better, simpler, quicker and more readily available tests for HIV infection beforehand, that are still a viable option for prophylaxis strategy, though, of course, then perhaps requiring whatever separate measures for birth control. But the circumstances regarding spermicides marketed only for birth control has been especially confusing: Obviously, the thought occurs that Nonoxinol-9, for whatever mysterious reason long the only spermicide long available, though never explicitly claimed to stop AIDS transmission, was more than strong enough to destroy any retrovirus, given that it was considered suitable for killing sperm! Otherwise, why where all lubricated condoms lined with Nonoxinol-9? Answer: For added protection. Added protection from what? Answer: Why, AIDS, the HIV, of course. The nonprescription vaginal spermicide Nonoxinol 9 has been the active ingredient in most spermicide and kills viri by destroying their protective fatty outer coating or shell, though, technically, by whatever happenstance, Nonoxinol 9 was never actually certified by the Food and Drug Administration for any such specific purpose. Therefore, Nonoxinol-9 was howsoever surreptitiously employed not just prophylacticly but antivirally to protect against AIDS transmission, furthermore suggesting that those vaunted reliable condoms alone, costly, awkward, cumbersome, leave us say it at long last: frankly repulsive and frustrating, frighteningly subject to tearing, breakage and even degradation from prolonged exposure to sunlight at point of sale, where never really so trusted after all as we have all been so emphatically assured. Indeed, unlubricated condoms where marketed only in case of allergy to Nonoxinol-9, an irritating detergent after all. So, actually, two flawed technologies where combined in order to optimize safety. And how commonsensible and obvious that seems, finally stated openly, which it never quite is. However, condoms containing nonoxynol-9 have never been shown to be any more effective at protecting against pregnancy and STDs than condoms without spermicide. Worse, it turns out that not only anal but as summarily discovered, also vaginal membrane irritation caused by Nonoxinol-9, especially in more frequent use, actually opens the way thereby increasing risk of HIV infection! Two microbicide alternatives to Nonoxynol-9 have com onto the market, oxtoxynol-9 and benzalkonium chloride, but irritation may still pose a problem, especially as depending upon concentration strength.
Honesty, faithful up to the minute reportage and open discourse upon the best information in quest of the widest range of varied strategic options available for individuals together towards maximizing benefit while minimizing risk, remains the best policy. And so it should come as no surprise that once again, scientific openness essential to respectful autonomy support, might have better served us all than Orwellian mealy mouthed propaganda righthink peer pressure socialization and failed wholesale patronizing consensus manipulation and behavioral conditioning that has not only always been so doomed to backfire psychologically and behaviorally, but that the chilling effect whereof has also so thoroughly undermined rational thinking and stifled all reasoned discourse. But exactly such is the appeal thereof, of the sadomasochistic and prudish siren song of virtuous self sacrifice, of demonization and placing blame, of the same endlessly dreary politics of mortification.
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
is now funding
development of the so-coined:
Molecular
Stealth Condom.
[DISCUSSION]
And
after cautiously rising hopes,
it was even anticipated that
SPL7013 VivaGel®
Intravaginal STD Defense
could be on the market by 2012. But tests are still underway. [bibliography]
Therefore one night naively expect that any prospect of either such ever less
intrusive and more effective prophylactic technology would be eagerly welcomed
and by all,
but apparently that would be pleasure seeking and sinful! Therefore,
(birth control at first having been so morally
controversial because of
religion)
much as the pill was initially marketed ostensibly as a medication for menstrual
irregularity and thus purportedly an aid to conception, now the tried and true
publicly condoned marketing ploy of
pandering to man-bashing by focusing
only upon the awful plight of oppressed women in the third world even confronted
with sexual violence and unable to negotiate safer sex, is employed towards the
all important patronizing
propaganda mission of directing the
sheeple for our own
good and for public safety instead of ever daring to trust and openly
empower sex-positive human
autonomy.
A full recapitulation of raging controversy over whether AIDS is actually caused by the sexually transmitted HIV in the first place, exceeds the scope of this written work. Suffice that the alternative theories so urgently need neither to be embraced nor debunked, in exhortation to faith and belief, one way or the other, as demanded by competing Moralism, but rigorously tested in honest and objective quest of truth: of correspondence to reality, so that we can more quickly find out and ever actually know.
The prospect of Zinc Alpha 2 Glycoprotein therapeutic supplementation and gluttony without consequence
Caveat
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display", never mind
knowingly?
Indeed, in this context, what constitutes
knowledge thereof? And is there
any fine distinction between "display" and Constitutionally protected
open publication at all? And what does it mean to assert that anything is
"on display" to anyone in particular any more than anyone else other,
given that all content is Online and hence accessible much the same?
And what constitutes
knowledge in this regard, as in
knowingly displaying, whatever that means? All in all, the
laws here, even aside from being so vague, are flagrantly Unconstitutional,
unenforceable and a damnable witch hunt. Fortunately, the meaning
and Constitutionality of the law remains hotly contested. The most that can
be presented in the matter are competing legal hypotheses.

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Evidence of Gender Socialization
Fetish and Capitalism:
Baudelaire: '[the] holy prostitution of the soul'
The Arcade: Sex appeal of the inorganic
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