Thanks for your deep ponderance; I don't think we're in disagreement - merely riffing on related points - Allow me to go right off the cuff in my reply :)
I totally get what your saying, and used the term sex-positive in an ironic/provocative way. The power-elite are playing a double-game with sex, one they might not even conciously realize they are playing, but which nonetheless has effects which further their agenda. TO summariaze - restriction on sex keep people fixated on it, to thier ultimate detriment.
By being so ostensibly sex-negative, they keep society as a whole quite infantile in their relationship to sex, and focus people all the more on it, simply because it's got all sorts of restrictions about it, and is so taboo. By keeping people infantily fixated on sexual gratification, all the while putting the breaks on it, it helps keep people internally distracted and programmed. In specific terms, people spend so much time feeling bad on a base level, they're constantly looking for a hit of something to simply alleiviate the pressure, to make them feel good for just NOW. Consequently, they never get to rise beyond that and discover other types of pleasure that could have a more profound/transfomative impact on thier own conciousness, and our society as a whole. The same thing goes with drugs, but to a slightly lesser degree.
Basically - keep the experience and expression of pleasure shallow and infantile through restriction and taboo, in order to enforce the status quo.
PS: I don't think sex is infantile or am in any way prudish or precious - I do however think the fixation of our culture on sexuality is indicative of a deep-seated problem that has a definite political/power facet to it.
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Date: 2006-03-07 07:10 pm (UTC)I totally get what your saying, and used the term sex-positive in an ironic/provocative way. The power-elite are playing a double-game with sex, one they might not even conciously realize they are playing, but which nonetheless has effects which further their agenda. TO summariaze - restriction on sex keep people fixated on it, to thier ultimate detriment.
By being so ostensibly sex-negative, they keep society as a whole quite infantile in their relationship to sex, and focus people all the more on it, simply because it's got all sorts of restrictions about it, and is so taboo. By keeping people infantily fixated on sexual gratification, all the while putting the breaks on it, it helps keep people internally distracted and programmed. In specific terms, people spend so much time feeling bad on a base level, they're constantly looking for a hit of something to simply alleiviate the pressure, to make them feel good for just NOW. Consequently, they never get to rise beyond that and discover other types of pleasure that could have a more profound/transfomative impact on thier own conciousness, and our society as a whole. The same thing goes with drugs, but to a slightly lesser degree.
Basically - keep the experience and expression of pleasure shallow and infantile through restriction and taboo, in order to enforce the status quo.
PS: I don't think sex is infantile or am in any way prudish or precious - I do however think the fixation of our culture on sexuality is indicative of a deep-seated problem that has a definite political/power facet to it.