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Re: Slightly askew

Written by Rood at 04 Mar 2003 03:32:48:

As an answer to: Slightly askew written by Paul B. at 28 Feb 2003 22:18:33:


>Whoops there Jim! Got that one wrong, but I know why you said it.
>Normal - as in healthy - people are turned on by foreskins, in exactly the same way as they are turned on by penes, clitorides, breasts, lips, bottoms - the whole box and dice. They are turned on by (the thought of) using their own body parts an a sexual manner, and using their partner's body parts in the same sexual manner - because that is what those body parts are for. That is normal, not fetish.
>Now, just to be dead clear. Those who are turned on by mutilating - cutting off, cutting pieces out of, making holes in, burning, injecting things into - body parts, and most certainly where this is a major element of heir sexual excitement - are not normal and it is clearly an indication of some major spiritual-psychological disturbance.
>It's a pretty simple concept for most people to grasp.


My God, how I wish it were a simple concept for certain persons to grasp. My face is bathed in bitter tears from reading your last two sentences, knowing full well how extraordinarily complicated human life becomes when it has been wreathed in life-long denial by fear and shame, and how the brutal reality of self-abnegation has made that life susceptible to the first hint, the first glimmer, of a focus for an erotic sensibility too long denied, no matter how cruely hurtful to the person, or to lives, or to relationships. Damn shame. Damn the fear of self. Damn it all. Oh Lord, God, have pity on me.


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