Saturday, August 25, 2007

Ten Minutes of Tex Sex With Commentary By Molly Ivins.

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Anonymous said...

I was overhearing the beginning of a presentation being made to some kind of Social Security Gathering yesterday. The speaker contended that there was a study that showed that in a presentation made at that time of the morning one third of the audience would be thinking about a past sexual encounter, one third about a future one and the rest listening to the speech. He took that then to mean that at least two thirds of the audience would enjoy his talk.

Is we know, most people live in a state of sexual frustration brought on by the inherent tension between the impulse to have sex and experience the emotions that go with that, and the socialization impulses that runs counter to the sexual impulse. The impulse toward sex is the primary one, having the deepest evolutionary and biological roots. The counter sex impulse has evolved as a necessity to facilitate socialization. Sex is so important on to the individual that we could not function as social species without counter sexual impulses to help regulate sexual expression (also arises from the need to pair for child rearing etc.) The result of this interpersonal conflict is that humanity lives in a state of general neurosis.

One thing that was interesting about going to Egypt this last summer was that courtship behavior (on a certain level) is so much more on display in a country like that. It arises from not having cars and homes with garages on streets with no sidewalks. In public places you see young couples by the scores and scads. They are not usually being openly physical but the young women are still in their tight jeans and enjoying the rapt attention of their boy friends. Cross the Nile river on a bridge in the evening and there will be dozens and dozens of such couples hanging over the rails on the sidewalk. The world is full of ovaries looking for employment.

People who understand the underlying conflict, such as Molly, can laugh at the various manifestations of this great conundrum that defines much of human behavior. Others, who persist in living in a state of self imposed ignorance, tend wrap the conflict into a story of guilt and sin, deny their own frustrations and magnifying the neurosis. The Texas legislature's dealing with sex are merely a political manifestation of that neurosis that is and always has been rampant in the bible belt.

2:41 PM
Anonymous said...

You need to consider Kurt Vonnegut's take on this issue in "Man Without a Country".... It is along the line of getting neutered...

3:58 PM

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