Sexx Laws; WAS: Patrick twisted my arm so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest

[Daniel Julius]

Great, thank you both.  I hit up Wikipedia shortly after I sent out that
request, and I hope to make it to the liberary later ons, so I'll let you
know if I discover anything.  DSM-IV I'm thinking, at the very least for
completion's sake.

I didn't realize, though, that 'paraphilia' had as much of a negative, or at
least pathological, connotation as it does.  I'd always heard it as just a
kink, in a way, a little something extra that gets yr kitten purring, but
pathology is tied up in the actual definition of the word itself, hm.

Meanwhile, is the common reading of Pudding's consumption of Katje's poo
that he is trying to re-live the visceral experience of that one Battle that
so messed him up?  Or atoning for some kind of sin?  How does this fit into
that episode's structural inversion of that Kabbalistic ritual?  (Sorry I
don't have the book w/ me and it has been a really real real long day at
work).

--
Dan

On Nov 28, 2007 11:05 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/28/07, Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 2007 7:43 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Patrick twisted my arm, so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest 1085pp
> opus!
> > >
> >
> http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=104370525
> >
> > This is part of what that guy Patrick had to say about AtD:
> > "Frankly, something should be said about the sex in this book. Not that
> I'm
> > a prude, but Pynchon goes a long way towards ruining this book with the
> > frequent bedroom [...] shenanigans. And it's not that graphic or unusual
> > sexual action ruins a book, but too often the sex seemed gratuitous &
> > juvenile."
>
> Maybe that guy SHOULDn"t read GR then ...
>
> > WHICH REMINDS ME, does anyone have a recommendation for a good primer
> > on sexual deviation?  (I know, whatever that means).  I'd like sort of a
> > glossary of paraphilias, and ideally something drawing connections
> between
> > the sexual acts discussed and insights into the other non-sexual parts
> of
> > the lives of the fetishists, real or hypothetical.  For example, what
> > non-sexual experiences tend to lead someone to be attracted to
> domination?
>
> Here's a classic, at any rate ...
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/psychopathiasexu00krafuoft
>
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