V.V.(8) sfacim and sewer stories

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 26 10:10:40 CST 2001



George Kolliopoulos wrote:
> 
> > Sfacim, if semen, is for Benny more excretory than orgasmic.  He
> > describes
> > sfacim as something men need to "get rid of" and dump onto a woman.  Shit
> > and semen are combined, clearly.  The sex act is seen as an inborn
> > compulsion to purge, and the purging has a victim.  Benny identifies this
> > most basic urge with a deep, overwhealming sorrow, and he sees himself,
> > again, as part of a system in which he has no control.

A Brooklyn bar confirmed it for me, spunk. But, P may be
alluding to some other vulgar tongues here. Maybe what it
meant to the Josephines.



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