has the world pushed us too far?

"The principal focus of The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is the sexual arousal of the central character at both the idea and the spectacle of the total degradation, humiliation, mutilation, torture, and murder of his naked victims.
(...)
It is the Board’s conclusion that the explicit presentation of the central character’s obsessive sexually violent fantasies is in breach of its Classification Guidelines and poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers."

"Is there such a thing as self-exploitation? And what's to distinguish simple exhibitionism, and those who would leverage it for profit, from a legitimate, artistic, and maybe spiritual exploration of the body's limits? (I'm including "spiritual" because ecstatic states similar to those depicted in the horror flick Martyrs are briefly, but convincingly, touched upon.)
(...)
 It's interesting, for example, that the height of Insex's popularity overlaps with the rise of bondage and fetishistic torture in U.S. horror films--just a coincidence? And don't forget that this was also the age of the caught-on-camera sexual humiliations at Abu Ghraib and U.S. debate over the "soft" tortures of Guantanamo. Again, maybe these specific historical and political items aren't that relevant to the events and ideas presented in GSH, but the fact remains that while watching the film you'd never know that any of its compelling themes might intersect with the wider world."

the stage

"The unconscious is that which, precisely, is obfuscated by the phantasmatic scenarios the pervert is acting out: the pervert, with his certainty about what brings enjoyment, obfuscates the gap, the ‘burning question’, the stumbling block, that ‘is’ the core of the unconscious. The pervert is thus the ‘inherent transgressor’ par excellence. He brings to light, stages, practices the secret fantasies that sustain the predominant public discourse, while the hysterical position precisely displays doubt about whether these those secret perverse fantasies are ‘really it’. Hysteria is not simply the battleground between secret desires and symbolic prohibitions; it also, and above all, articulates the gnawing doubt whether secret desires really contain what they promise-whether our inability to enjoy really hinges only on symbolic prohibitions. In other words , the pervert precludes the unconscious because he knows the answer(to what brings jouissance to the other); he has no doubts about it; his position is unshakable; while the hysteric doubts-that is, her position is that of an eternal and constitutive (self) questioning: What does the Other want from me? What am I for the Other?"

Slavoj Žižek 

transe

"Ecstasy replaces sexuality. The mediocrity of the human race is the only plausible explanation for sexuality. As the only mode for coming out of ourselves, sexuality is a temporary salvation from animality. For every being, intercourse surpasses its biological function. It is a triumph over animality. Sexuality is the only gate to heaven. The saints are not a-sexual but trans-sexual. They no longer need the revelations of sexuality. To be a saint means to always be outside yourself. What else would sexuality add to this? Sexual orgasm pales beside the saints’ ecstatic trance."

Emile M. Cioran (Tears and Saints)

pensées

the pleasure paradox

ataque das alforrecas imortais

claramente, as alforrecas sabem muito mais do que o brad pitt. é um facto científico: as turritopsis nutricula estão a invadir os oceanos, são oficialmente imortais e provavelmente os animais mais inteligentes do mundo. senão, vejamos: depois de atingirem a maturidade sexual (um período complicado para as alforrecas, logo a seguir à idade do armário), quando coisam, revertem para uma forma juvenil (mais pequenina do que os 5 mm que normalmente têm, pelo que vão demorar um bocado a encher os mares). ou seja, rejuvenescem. que é o que acontece a todos os machos depois de coisarem, mas com uma pequena diferença: passa-se tudo na cabeça deles. aqui, não. as alforrecas herdarão o mundo. desde que coisem. portanto, fixem:
alforrecas + sexo = imortalidade

manual de civilidade para meninas

não há palavras para descrever a utilidade deste livrinho de 1965. devemos-lhe praticamente tudo.

todas as oportunidades são boas

"High heels may well be the most potent aphrodisiac ever concocted"

Freud took the shoe to be a symbol of the vagina, by which logic the heeled shoe becomes vagina with penis, chick with a dick, a 6in emblem of the act of congress. Be this as it may, heels certainly impart suggestive body morphing qualities: not least, the arched back and tilted pelvis of orgasm.

"Women have gained entry to the public sphere and occupations once confined to men in ways unthinkable in the 60s. Increasingly, they are being required to pay the price, what I call the 'sexual corvée' in which they compensate men for their lost power by creating sexual delight for them as they totter about."

saudades de sexo

vox

o fotógrafo Phillip Toledano vai publicar um livro sobre as mulheres (e homens) mais sexy do mundo.
têm duas coisas em comum: são discípulos de Scheherazade.
e são invisíveis.

deleitem-se com as imagens secretas dos criadores de imagens secretas.

eu já sabia há muito tempo

os sapatos de salto alto, para além de tonificarem as pernas e fortalecerem os músculos pélvicos, "solicitam directamente os músculos do prazer que estão ligados a um orgasmo", afirma entusiasticamente uma urologista italiana, docente da universidade de verona (tudo se explica). agora é científico! até o manolo blahnik suspirou de alívio."Until my mummy was 87 she was wearing high heels and she looked wonderful. She is my living example that heels are good for you. When you put on a high heel it makes life more exciting.", confirmou o célebre criador.
em relação a este assunto, apenas tenho uma coisa a acrescentar: marotas.