tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post7338592136436886790..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Sympathy for the PrudeAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-33537299822186982692011-06-19T02:06:50.780-04:002011-06-19T02:06:50.780-04:00Hello Jean Roberta: I so loved your post on this s...Hello Jean Roberta: I so loved your post on this subject. There is no changing history, but we can see it from different angles, and reinterpret, and rewrite it. That I think is the blessing of our age.Remittance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07902713020074243375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-71775186467020051292011-06-19T02:02:29.455-04:002011-06-19T02:02:29.455-04:00Hello Garce: I think you may be right. Nonetheless...Hello Garce: I think you may be right. Nonetheless, the deed is done. The seeds of self-hatred for both the flesh and the spirit of what we are was sown long ago and it's a stubborn stain we still bear, regardless of all the superficial 'celebration' of self that goes on in modern society. I'm not a chronicler of what should be or what might be, but only an observer of what is. And the worst of what is, at that. hehe.Remittance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07902713020074243375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-17422023796979840262011-06-19T01:56:14.434-04:002011-06-19T01:56:14.434-04:00Hello, Lisabet: I think you probably have a much h...Hello, Lisabet: I think you probably have a much healthier point of view about it than I do. But I have found a way to turn my ambivalence of eroticism to a purpose. :P We each employ the tools we have.Remittance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07902713020074243375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-28054135787402228152011-06-18T23:41:19.379-04:002011-06-18T23:41:19.379-04:00Welcome back to the Grip, RG,
It's always suc...Welcome back to the Grip, RG,<br /><br />It's always such a pleasure to read you!<br /><br />"So, please have some sympathy for the prudes amongst us. Without them, there would be no dirty, no nasty, no sinful, no obscenity." <br /><br />I wonder about the truth of this. I think that personally, I'd still want to write and celebrate the erotic even if it were not viewed as forbidden and obscene. There's something overwhelming about the experience of desire, even when there are no societal obstacles, that makes it a worthy subject for fiction.<br /><br />You're right to question the evolutionary importance of this intensity. I like to think that maybe evolution can't quite explain it, that despite the physical substrate of sexuality it has a - dare I say? - spiritual or non-material dimension that augments its power over our lives.Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-84238447379791676512011-06-18T23:16:01.928-04:002011-06-18T23:16:01.928-04:00I have a setting waiting for a story someday, in w...I have a setting waiting for a story someday, in which society is constructed with taboos and prohibitions which exist solely for the purpose of enhancing the pleasure of those who break them.Nobilis Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619601142783473136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-63204467973855551012011-06-18T12:34:12.931-04:002011-06-18T12:34:12.931-04:00RG, you are a philosopher queen. :) I'm so gla...RG, you are a philosopher queen. :) I'm so glad you agreed to be our guest-blogger this week. Carol Queen said something similar about prudes in a book of sexual non-fiction, but I think you say it with more style. Be warned: the next time it's my turn to find a guest-blogger, I'll ask you.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-32499576668326030582011-06-18T09:22:05.575-04:002011-06-18T09:22:05.575-04:00Welcome back to OGG RG.
I'm still trying to f...Welcome back to OGG RG.<br /><br />I'm still trying to figure out Georges bataille. I read one of his short stories in an anthology I have at home something about the Virgin Mary in a bar and it kind of went over my head. I get what you;re saying about prudes though. I think inside of every prude is a very sexual person trying to get out.<br />Jesus said we hsould love others as we love ourselves, but if we turn tha taround it means if we don;t love ourselves its hard to love anybody else. I think that's what's at the bottom of a lot of this repressive social engineering out there.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.com