Pornography

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Sat Mar 11 12:40:00 CST 2000



Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> >  Again, I am not suggesting that S&M is cruel, only that in
> > GR, S&M functions as metaphor for dehumanizing cruelty.
> > Homosexuality also functions as metaphor, metaphor for
> > sterility and death.

> 
> Yes, this may be. I have to think more about it. My main interest in the
> post was to separate the sex orgies from the idea of Death. They seemed to
> me to be more by way of opposites. Struggling against each other as it
> were. A desperate effort to cheat death.
> 
>                         P.

I don't know if it is death exactly-- a Freudian struggle.
No, in fact I'm quite sure it is not. It's Entropy.



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