Naturists don’t fuck, they breed.
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| — | Ralph rugoff |
I think that pleasure is a very difficult behaviour. It is not as simple as that to enjoy one’s self.
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| — | Michel Foucault |
I say that I want you.
(But I know the less SAID about desire the better, since we always get it wrong. That age-old problem of satisfaction; that is, getting it. So, I say, go for it, right or wrong. Something is better than nothing, isn’t it? Economy again.)
We fuck. […]
(But I know the less SAID about desire the better, since we always get it wrong. That age-old problem of satisfaction; that is, getting it. So, I say, go for it, right or wrong. Something is better than nothing, isn’t it? Economy again.)
We fuck. […]
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| — | Elizabeth A. Meese, Body Talk |
2. Yet, within this infantile embrace, the genital unfailingly appears; it cuts off the diffuse sensuality of the incestuous embrace; the logic of desire begins to function, the will-to-possess returns, the adult is superimposed upon the child. I am then two subjects at once: I want maternity AND genitality. (The lover might be defined as a child getting an erection: such was the young Eros.)
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| — | Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments |
When we believe that adolescence is the time of sexual peaking, we are indirectly espousing sex between strangers.
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Schnarch, D. (1997). Passionate marriage: Keeping love and intimacy alive in committed relationships. New York: Owl Books. except most/all people are strangers … |
What seems the whole of our earthly being, our ur-humanity released through our flesh as through the other’s flesh, our animality mastered and yet unleashed— recentering and transfiguring everything that we thought possible in human encounter—entails a spiritual surrender. And I think there ought to be no shame in living as innocents before it as we discover this power in the face of our objects of desire. We cradle one another. We rock one another. The expressiveness of kissing naturally takes on qualities of nursing and oral play. Tickling and teasing, ostensibly such instinctive games of childhood, become adult speech acts testing and pushing the limits of one’s self-definition.
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Sexuality and Parrhesia in the Phenomenology of Psychological Development: The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy Frank J. Macke, Mercer University |
So, in saying that a person without sufficient social and psychological agency is without ethics, Foucault is, in effect, maintaining that such a person does not truly have a Self. In the 21st century, one’s ethos is still seen by one’s dress, by one’s bearing, by one’s gait, by gestural grace, by the poise with which one reacts to challenges and events. As such, a person without sufficient social and psychological agency is lacking in embodiment. The truth-teller, the parrhesiast, must speak masterfully; he or she must express the world as her or his body, and must have courage to open its earthly awareness, its fleshly consciousness, to the flesh of the other. And it should also go without saying that without a body it is very difficult to have sex.
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Sexuality and Parrhesia in the Phenomenology of Psychological Development: The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy Frank J. Macke, Mercer University |
Intimacy, generally, is strategy of space while love is a psychological condition of temporality; it is inner and reflective. Intimacy entails a strategy of unveiling and disclosure, connection and relationship, nearness and intersubjective immediacy. For Bataille, “the sense of shame we feel in our nakedness is the beginning of communication and crystallizes the urge of love” (Richardson, 1994, p. 38).
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Sexuality and Parrhesia in the Phenomenology of Psychological Development: The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy Frank J. Macke, Mercer University |
A man and a woman make love. To what extent is the man aware of the woman’s orgasm?
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Pierre, José (ed.) 1992 Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions 1928-1932, trans. Malcolm Imrie. London: Verso. interesting because “love” (because I mean both physical and emotional etc love) I guess sort of attempts to bridge the separation of the other while bringing that separation to the fore |
