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RIDING_DOUBLE

                                                         May  12-31, 2012
                                                         July 15-18, 2013
 A young woman writing in the Guardian UK seems
 to feel that porn has a minimal influence on
 the psyche because the "immersive" quality of       Bertie Brandes,
 the sexual experience overwhelms any such           May 25, 2013
 influence:                                          http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/25/online-porn-facts-fantasy

     "... real-life sex is not
     something you stop to analyse
     midway through ..."

                                                 COMPARE_CONTRAST_DENY_UNIFY
    There's a thought/emotion
    dichotomy in play here.        And because I said "dichotomy",
                                   you know I'm about to complain
                                   about this use of the knife.


    This comes up frequently
    with music-- because            PLEASED_TO_MEET_YOU
    music is taken as an art
    of emotion it is beyond                            But look at that music
    thought.                    THE_CRUDE_VIRTUOSO     analogy: The performer
                                                       is allowed to train; the
                                                       composer is allowed to
                                                       calculate; it is only
                                                       the audience that is
                                                       required to be passive,
                                                       acted-upon, "swept away"
                                                       by emotion.
   You can either care, or you
   can think, but not both.

         The objectivity/activism problem
                                              A_POLITICAL_SCIENCE

      I always come back to:                      THE_GREAT_DEBATE

      The double-mind,
      inside and outside
      the passion.                       Tops always seem to end up
                                         complaining about bottoms.
      Apollo and Dionysus joined         The bottom is fundamentally
      (above and below the waist).       lazy: unwilling to engage the
                                         double-mind.
               SUNDAY_MORNING

           AWARE_BUT_THERE                          "despite all the
                                                    computations"
        OTAKU_INFLUENCE
                                                        PERFORMANCE
                                                        PREFAB

         This double-mind/doublet
         philosophy may have some                     DOUBLET
         juice, but you have to
         watch it: from a contradiction,
         angels follow. or something.

         CONTRA_DICTIONARY

                                                   Jim Carrol:

                                                   "Even when the question
                                                    finds the answer/
                                                    then even then, there's
                                                    something like a dancer."

                                                        BOUNDARIES



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