Thursday, December 13, 2012

Could be worse …

… An evening of bad sex…but is it bad enough? | The Book Haven.

Sex is a relatively simple physical act. There really isn't a lot to say about it. The personal mystery that leads to that act and is affected by it is something else. There is a world of beauty and peculiarity to be dealt with in that.


3 comments:

  1. I've always thought the problem is that sexual pleasure has natural limits – I mean, if it gets intense enough, you have a heart attack and die. That's why the "serious" writing about it slides easily into the ridiculous. The physical sensations are inevitably finite.

    The emotions and sense of the numinous are not finite, however. So the language of these realms are inserted into the often-meaningless sex, in an attempt to inject it with more meaning than it has on the page.

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  2. I think if you want to write about physical sex, follow the lead of Chaucer and Henry Miller, be ribald, not mystical, like D .H. Lawrence though Lawrence's "The Plumed Serpent" is one of the (unintentionally) funniest bad books ever written.

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  3. Mystical route is definitely a loser.

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