....all true and in a more rational world banning stories and drawings about sex and romance between men and boys would have no better luck gaining traction than the idea of banning Chuck Norris movies. That Canada apparently has banned such stories and drawings suggests those of us in the US who believe free speech includes fictional escapism might need to think again. Georges Bataille in 1962 (Erotism: Death & Sensuality) wrote: Stripping naked is the decisive action. Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words. It is a state of communication revealing a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of the self. Bodies open out to a state of continuity through secret channels that give us a feeling of obscenity. Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. (17-18) hugzu ;-p |