Re: Sex and Stuff
On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Ted Winslow wrote:
You seem to use “scripting” in a sense that doesn’t allow for a
distinction between this and, say, an obsessional set of routines
expressing psychopathology as in Taylorism (Jack Nicholson plays a
character in (if I remember rightly) Five Easy Pieces whose
routinized sex falls into the latter category i.e. in order to come
he requires a sex worker to follow a “script” to the letter).
Not me, actually - that’s the way Joanna’s using it. E.g., the
nurse’s uniform, etc. My objection is to the idea that things that
seem more ordinary (e.g., plain vanilla fucking) are not themselves
in large part performances of pre-existing texts. I really don’t
understand what her idea of “freedom” is in this context.
The movie you’re thinking of is Carnal Knowledge, right? And yes,
that’s an obsessive ritual, which must be repeated without variation
every time. Joanna’s caricature of pervy sex was more like that than
it should be.
Doug