Sexual mania: A second look
TO the more scrupulous, sex is inviolate, sacrosanct; to the less candid, taboo, restricted. To buttress both opinions, if a “little learning is dangerous,” too much sex is hazardous. To paraphrase Plato, “There is no greater nor keener pleasure than [sex] and none more irrational;” and Martin Luther: “Married people must assiduously pray against these assaults of the Devil …’Tis the Devil inspires this evanescent ardor, in order to divert the parties from
- tama, the Buddha, “confessing his temptations and weaknesses,” said, “The strongest driving force in Man is sex;” and humorist James Thurber in concluded that sex was recreational rather than
Since our subject matter is about this material subject, vis-a-vis political and religious characters who are happily engrossed in it, let’s make that “obsession” or “impiety,” instead of “mania” or “perversion,” hopefully to make it less repugnant and disgraceful; then we may be excused for ir
Why is it that only men are always the object of sexual censure? Julie says: “Men are polygamous and natural-born sexual rascals, but more people are interested in the sexual habits of say, Ms and
Like it or not, sexual obsession has been here since the mist of time – since Adam and Eve, more recently Monica and Bill, Woody and SoonYi, Leila and (what’s his name?) Baby and (you Pepe and Pilar, and a “miscellany of extras” better
A US President in the past, who was a perceived racist, is said to have sired a child with a black woman; another President allegedly enjoyed “whipping out his private part” and bragging with his secretary and the princess of a Scandinavian country; it was prime rumor that John Kennedy had sexual contacts with many women, “Fake news” has not yet been invented then so people’s voracious appetite for “hot rumors” was satiated devouring them as gospel truth – some
Presently, there’s a slew of interesting news (maybe real, maybe fake) – from politics to show “sexual abuse and molestation” by known charac his hot rhetoric against women, something like, “if you are a celebrity you can grope any girl because they’d let you,” even as many women – though late in the day – are coming out boldly with revelations of sexual molestation: a Republican candidate for - Weinstein, popular actors Kevin Spacey, Sylvester much of such “exposes” because whistleblowers in have been arrested in an entrapment by the authori
of godliness can be found unusual – bizarre – evi the male organ or phallus; then there’s another, which practices sexual orgies among members;
90 wives, so was Abraham as the God-chosen “fa was gently confronted by his disciples (who must have been spying on him) as “loving Magdalene a verse in the Koran, which says, “You may marry two, three, or four wives, but not more” and the great prophet Mohammed (“the culmination of or more, it must be better – make that divine – to
Like religious debates, arguments for or against such a driving and uncontrollable force is regu