The headline for this post is deceptive, because like Mark Twain the "news" of sensuality's death is greatly exaggerated. Yet, the lack of sensuality in the American Orgy has been on my mind. This morning I spent the early pre-dawn hours with my hand on the back of a beautiful woman, my hand slipped up underneath her bed clothes, so it rested on warm bare flesh. She curled up against my chest and I felt the slow exhales as she slept. The bed covers pressed down on us, warming us against the early fall chill. This was sensual.
The lack of sensuality in the American culture stems from what I would consider a lack of feeling. In your face eroticism and fundamentalism abound, but people skip across their chosen ponds like ferociously hurled flat rocks, never bothering to go beneath the surface. If you feel, you've opened up the senses and the door to sensuality.
Widely varying news from the orgy has infected this post.
My first thoughts this morning go out to the ass fuckers, cock suckers and cunt lickers of the Orgy. Maine rejected a law on same sex marriage yesterday, with a majority apparently of the opinion that marriage is only good enough for the cunt fuckers. Washington state looks like it will fair better, since they didn't have the gall to call the domestic partner law, marriage. Yet this is what I'm talking about when I say the Orgy lacks the depth of feeling. Even the slightest modicum of empathy would create an understanding between the opposing sides, but that would require feeling. This is the mystery to me -- how can you make people feel.
Second thought on the whole gay marriage vote is how ridiculous it is. Imagine what would have happened with the popular vote for civil rights or miscegenation in the South sixty years ago. It took court decisions to fuel the civil rights movement and it will take court decisions to fuel this equal rights movement. Remember ladies, the majority voted against your equal rights only 37 years ago.
Finally, David Brooks of the NY Times needs to stop blaming technology for the lack of sensuality and decorum in society. The Luddite arguments are so well worn as to be cliched, but the invention of the knife didn't create psychotic knife wielding killers. And cell phone technology doesn't explain Mr. Brook's fascination with on-line sex diaries. The same free market of sex described in Mr. Brook's op-ed sounds an awful lot like Henry Miller's Paris in the early 1930s where Anais Nin wrote erotica by the page for a fee. One only has to read Ovid to know that our preoccupation with sex is nothing new. Nor I'm sure is our lack of sensuality anything new. In the chaos of life's orgy succumbing to the sensual is a daring move that forces you out of the superficial and into the real world of feeling, the real world of the senses -- and the real world in all its sensual glory includes not only pleasure, but pain.
How easily we forget our history. But the same small minds that are behind this vote are the same small minds that were behind the ERA fiasco--and ironically they use the same fear tactics and bullshit to argue against them.
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