He probably likes to think he's a sexual dissident, but he's the opposite. Dan Savage is the very definition of the Straight and Narrow (as his comments on paedophilia make clear). We are perverts (Gott sei Dank), he is not. Perversion is created not by nature but by culture. And it's always a privilege to be a pervert. We are the last glimmering of a lost Abenddämmerung or the harbingers of a still-distant Morgendämmerung. And all the time those fools are bumbling about as if it were broad daylight. Who'd want to be one of them? |