Re: Sex and Stuff
Joanna wrote:
As for the comments ridiculing “spontaneity” — I am always amazed
by the complete contempt people have for the body.
I don’t get this at all. No one’s ridiculing; people are disagreeing.
I’m saying that what you think of as spontaneous and unscripted is
almost certainly neither. All our ideas of love and lust are deeply
embedded in our minds & bodies; the most spontaneous-seeming embrace
is a recapitulation of embraces that have been performed a billion
times before. There are echoes of poems, movies, paintings, other
embraces experienced and witnessed, etc. That doesn’t make it any
less pleasurable, but what is this fetish for unprecedented originality?
And as for “contempt for the body,” there’s that wonderful interview
in which Foucault says that one of the appealing things about
sadomasochism is that it turns the entire body into an erogenous
zone. How is that contemptuous?
Doug