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CIRCULAR_MOTION

                                            November 19-26, 2005

Ah, the way transgression
dances together with puritanism:

Young rough trade and the bald,
bespectacled john, each embarassed
to be seen with each other, each
energizing each other, each knowing
they'll never quite get off without
at least a fantasy of the other.



If you're into
"transgression",
then anything
you're not
supposed to do,                (specficially,          When that
but that you                   that you can            crosses over
really can do is               do, given some          into an
interesting.                   caution and             interest
                               knowledge of            into the
                               risks...),              seriously
                                                       dangerous,
                                                       then you've
   One of the key features:                            left the
   safe transgression.                                 realm of
   Edgy without being                                  "perversion"
   risky.                  innocent                    and entered
                           transgression?              insanity.
   To know that you're
   living so much more
   intensely than                                         But any boundary can
   Mrs. Grundy with her                                   be a temptation to
   silly, unthinking,                                     cross, and that one
   aversions.                                             is no exception.

   The glow of                                            RISK
   superiority at
   the core of hip.



                                     But transgression isn't
                                     quite the only criteria
                                     for a popular sexual practice.

                                     An obvious part of the formula:

                                     Intense physical sensation,
                                     involving sensitive parts
                                     of the body.


                                          There are perversions
                                          that get some distance
                                          away from these, but those
                                          are not likely to click
                                          over into wide spread
                                          "normal perversions"

                                                         NORMAL_PERVERSION

There's a need then
for weak barriers?         Boundaries
                           placed so
                           you can
                           survive
                           skiing "out
                           of bounds"


         "If everything is allowed,
          nothing is meaningful"

          Permissiveness as                 Asmiov pushed that idea,
          the enemy of passion...           in passing, in
                                            "The Gods Themselves"


       So a true pervert would                         STYLE_IMPAIRED
       encourage puritanism,
       invent restrictions.
                                 KNUCKLE
       You must not enter
       the bedroom before
       sundown.

       It should be forbidden
       to eat in public.

       All must go veiled.







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