Pornography

[Paul Mackin]

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> 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.

Entropy is OK. I don't like my struggle between Sex and Death statement all
that much because it is too limited in scope to take in  the  intimate relation
between sex and aggression. If sex is the instinct to produce life, aggression
and death are required to protect life.  There 's a limited food supply after
all. Sadism may be the way this connection shows up. Some degree of sadism has
to be expected in the average person. Slopthrop's sadism with regard to Bianca
seems rather mild. A few playful nips at her bottom.  That's all it takes in
the normal Joe. Judging by the difficult passage concerning their parting we
know her loss to him is immense-- tied in with all the inadequacies  and
disapoinments of his life.  She's somehow the real thing rather than the
reasonable facsimile his preterite station has forced him to accept. And he
somehow is the most important of her fathers. All very mystifying.

                                P.