Re: the next wedge issue

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But therea re lot of people who have a visceral
> disgust about sexual behavior different from theirs
> that is independent of any religiosu beliefs.

True. I wouldn't say I was a prude exactly, but I think I can be disgusted
to. I guess that for me though it is rarely the act itself, but more the
relation within which it occurs that disgusts me. But that is not a popular
opinion, because the common practice is to abstract the behaviour from the
relation in which it occurs, a perfectly good capitalist procedure.

> Well, you wouldn't need to have the label and the
> identity.

Yes, I know all the permutations, I'm 44 now. Point is, intimacy is
inescapably associated with vulnerability, hence a prime target and an easy
target for the assertion of power and the imposition of exploitation. Simply
put, one wants intimacy where it strengthens one's position, and not where
it weakens one's position. The rulers must monopolise strength, the ruled
must be subjected to weakness, that is the rules of the games in the "bread
and games" leading to obedience. If sex is intimacy, then we want sex where
it strengthens us, and for the opponent where it weakens them, so that we
obtain obedience.

You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags
and the language that he used
Go to him now,
he calls you,
you can't refuse
When you got nothing,
you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now,
you got no secrets to conceal.

J.