That Sacred Prostitution Thang
Apr. 3rd, 2022 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraSunny yesterday, so after selfless TaxBawana-ing, I went tromping. Listened to podcasts.
By coincidence, the opening cadenza of the most recent This American Life featured a group of children being interviewed on their feelings about impending puberty.
None of them were fans!
When they notice that one of the books uses the word "enjoyable" to describe sex, one boy declares...
Student: I don't think so. That's disgusting.
Janah Boccio: Why are you saying that?
Student: Because it's disgusting.
Remembering back to when I was that age, I would have been inclined to agree with them.
There was no sex education at PS87, and, of course, it was something my insane mother wasn’t likely to talk to me about. So when I began menstruating at the age of 11, it was completely out of the blue. I thought I hadn’t wiped myself properly! I hid my dirty underpants! When my mother finally broke in on me in the bathroom and gingerly explained the whole thing to me, I was shocked and appalled.
I got sexual very shortly after that.
Getting sexual meant I got a lot of attention, something that had been in extremely short supply in my life up until that point, and, of course, certain aspects of it felt good.
But in my subsequent life, I’ve always thought, You peaked at twelve.
Before the relentless push of puberty gave me tunnel vision, programmed me to believe that True Love was the highest heart’s desire one could possibly aspire to.
If blocking puberty indefinitely had been an option back in the day, in other words, I would have said, Where do I sign up?
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I don’t like labels.
Any label.
Never have.
This is one of the reasons why I’ve never really gotten behind LGBTQ as a political movement although, of course, one has to pay lip service else the label “right-wing creep” will be applied to you.
Don’t people understand that these are essentially marketing categories designed to turn you into an ever more efficient niche consumer?
Supplier-induced demand is most effective with niche consumer categories as Starbucks’ 255 permutations and variations on caffeinated beverages easily demonstrates.
As someone whose sexual preferences incline equally toward males and females, I could embrace LGBTQ as protective camouflage, I suppose.
But why would I?
Sex is always most thrilling when it has that clandestine element. Transgressive sex is good sex! Other sex is mostly boring. I suppose it’s that sacred prostitution thang.
By coincidence, the opening cadenza of the most recent This American Life featured a group of children being interviewed on their feelings about impending puberty.
None of them were fans!
When they notice that one of the books uses the word "enjoyable" to describe sex, one boy declares...
Student: I don't think so. That's disgusting.
Janah Boccio: Why are you saying that?
Student: Because it's disgusting.
Remembering back to when I was that age, I would have been inclined to agree with them.
There was no sex education at PS87, and, of course, it was something my insane mother wasn’t likely to talk to me about. So when I began menstruating at the age of 11, it was completely out of the blue. I thought I hadn’t wiped myself properly! I hid my dirty underpants! When my mother finally broke in on me in the bathroom and gingerly explained the whole thing to me, I was shocked and appalled.
I got sexual very shortly after that.
Getting sexual meant I got a lot of attention, something that had been in extremely short supply in my life up until that point, and, of course, certain aspects of it felt good.
But in my subsequent life, I’ve always thought, You peaked at twelve.
Before the relentless push of puberty gave me tunnel vision, programmed me to believe that True Love was the highest heart’s desire one could possibly aspire to.
If blocking puberty indefinitely had been an option back in the day, in other words, I would have said, Where do I sign up?
###
I don’t like labels.
Any label.
Never have.
This is one of the reasons why I’ve never really gotten behind LGBTQ as a political movement although, of course, one has to pay lip service else the label “right-wing creep” will be applied to you.
Don’t people understand that these are essentially marketing categories designed to turn you into an ever more efficient niche consumer?
Supplier-induced demand is most effective with niche consumer categories as Starbucks’ 255 permutations and variations on caffeinated beverages easily demonstrates.
As someone whose sexual preferences incline equally toward males and females, I could embrace LGBTQ as protective camouflage, I suppose.
But why would I?
Sex is always most thrilling when it has that clandestine element. Transgressive sex is good sex! Other sex is mostly boring. I suppose it’s that sacred prostitution thang.
