Art and Culture 69
The Sex Article
-For the Uncensored!
As of writing this article, it is only two days after Valentine’s Day, and being late as I am, this was appropriate for the 69th Art and Culture section. To be fair, the implication of sex is what most prudes would rather not think about. Yes, there are times for love, respect, comradery, compassion. Which is what the love story is. It’s understanding your partners love and affection. Sometimes it’s a twisted love story like Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, who is in love with an older man, but his ties to a crazed woman locked in the attic, who turns out to be his wife, is the dilemma. Anyone who has seen 9 ½ weeks, with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, would almost laugh at the ridiculousness of Fifty Shades of Grey. Even Kim Basinger starred in one Fifty Shades of Grey film. The Greek lesbian poet Sappho wrote:
You came and I was longing for you
You cooled a heart that burned with desire[i]
One doesn’t have to be lesbian in order to appreciate the beauty and desire that Sappho’s felt. It’s a weird thing quoting Sappho’s as I am a straight man that can understand that longing for a partner, as Sappho’s loneliness could be expressed upon the page.
What sex represented, in the eyes of the monotheistic church, was always a bad thing. Witches, if they are presented in an ugly way, represent the filthy side of love and sex. But a beautiful witch represents what good sex can bring out of the story. You want to read Nicholas Sparks if you want to hang out with the wife. Trad wife type of reading. Your freaky Conservative Thot wants that freaky reading material. The Song of Solomon. No, just kidding. Probably more like Ayn Rand. Your lefty though is without that sense of sex but then books with edgy and emotional appeal is not going to please them either way. They are probably more into a Pinterest profile than a book with sex or erotica these days.
But sex isn’t something you or anyone else shouldn’t be afraid of. Left or Right. You don’t need Gloria Steniham or Lena Dunham telling you what women should want. Or Ben Shapiro’s wife either. Sex and love between two people can exist.
Art and sex in the modern culture has always had its place. If people tell you it doesn’t, then they are lying. If you don’t admit that beauty or sex exists, then you will never try to achieve a balanced and healthy lifestyle. To not admit that sex exists is Karen wine mom talk at best. Wine moms can only tell you about one side of life. Maybe the Fifty Shades of Grey variety where sex is done through permission and safety. Men find through porn visual stimuli which is why women do have a big problem with porn. If men and women read erotica together, it remains effectively easier to pretend that sex is not important.
If sex wasn’t important, then women could create children asexually. The aspect of sex is not only biblical, either. If the trad wives will tell you any different, then art would be simple, plain, loving. Again, that’s only one side of an artistic experience. Art and Culture need sex in order to find that narrow pathway where society can function without total sexual anarchy. If art is not allowed to be sexual, then society will collapse as only fans girls will rise and art will mean nothing. I am rather suspicious of anyone who doesn’t think they are beautiful but if everyone’s a prostitute, then no one will get married. Again, I do have an only fans page, but you could probably look it up and find nothing inside it. No, curious readers, I do not plan on putting my nudes online, I just wanted to put my official page on there so that nobody would take my name.
Of course, I don’t care what happens at all in the privacy of people’s bedrooms. But I’m not a prude to think that the media hasn’t used sex in the media to help spike viewership. Being complicit of sex is the way to all guilt, but the confusion is when the media will try and create guilt over sex in manga, too.
Manga, or Japanese comics, particularly dominate taboos, such as sex, violence, and also push children into adult situations. This is when the destruction of art begins. Two sides want either love or sex, and the two cultures have their war to have one rule over the dominion of art. But beautiful art and pornography can exist. Just throw a stone in a book store and you will find that every manga will deal with sex in a brutish or outright pleasurable existence. The Japanese are not afraid of sex and nor should anyone else. It flirts casually, like in Mars, or then deals with it head on, like in Berserk, where rape and sex are used to gain advantages in society, or in metaphysical ways, ascend to Godhood. It either deals with emotion or action, and Berserk masterfully combines both.
Another example, Lost Girls by Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and From Hell, explores a fictional world where all the greatest female literary characters meet have sex, but also a case study of what you can do with older intellectual properties.
But Moore does describe that “it is a bit strange, that every other subject in the human world is considered fit for writing literature and creating art, around. Sex and sexuality is something that concerns all of us. The only genre that talks about it is this fairly despicable counter genre that has absolutely no standards.” When the Interviewer on Hard Talk, Tim Franks, expressed that the characters of Lost Girls were “characters that you plucked out of children’s literature. I think that’s some of the shock of this. You put them in positions that are incestuous, you show children as young as 14 having sex, so its its also really really pushing the boundaries that deem to be acceptable.” And he states it rather bluntly: “We wanted to do a piece of pornography that’s pornography in the traditional sense, but which addressed all the problems that people had with pornography. The feminist problems.” When addressing the distinction between pornography and erotica, Alan rebuttals, “Yes, I was very careful to use the word pornography all the way through the 18 years it took us to complete Lost Girls.” Adding, “Erotica is pertaining to love. There’s not a great deal of love in erotica. Whereas pornography means drawings and writings of wantonness. Which seemed to be more appropriate.”[ii]
I don’t think Alan Moore was considering what the plot was of Lost Girls, but it’s only fair to criticize Alan’s art based on the strength of his plot. And plot wise, I can barely think it’s Alan’s greatest work. Visually, Lost Girls is exquisitely drawn, but the moral implication of sex can’t be asserted on Lost Girls. As that was not his intention. And definitely not his best in terms of a plot either. But sex is a sticky issue. Everyone has their own perspective of sex, but here’s the condition of that statement.
There can be both. Burlesque art is not purely sexual but a mirror of beauty that confronts the timid house wife with the beauty of stage and performance art. Porn is the explicit version of love and scenarios pushed together, two people consummating love for paying customers. Manga, comics, and any other form of art containing it can help serve a broad purpose. Art itself can be a single identity of sex and love, or a divisive term too.
[i] http://gomag.com/article/10-of-our-favorite-sappho-lez-quotes-to-get-you-through-the-week/. Found 02.16.2022.
. Found 02.16.2022.
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