Current Mood:  irate
Current Music: Don't Stand So Close To Me
Yet another intergenerational-sex rant (I suppose, considering my necessary relation to many readers, the hyphen could have been omitted or even nudged one word to the right). It depresses me endlessly how few Americans would regard the following story as an example of the insane, despicable, and flagitious use of police power to torment those who discover themselves having been sexual nonconformists (why, btw, can’t we foster the use of that notion — i.e., sexual nonconformity over deviation and, worse, offense — to underscore the obvious religious analogy [and for purposes of American jurisprudence, at any rate, make the 1st Amendment of the Constitution—rather than the 14th or the notoriously privacy-penurious “penumbras” of 1 through 5—the indurate touchstone for assaying sex-afflicting, as it now does religion- and speech-afflicting, laws]?). I never will cease to be just flabbergasted by the fact that the overwhelming majority of my fellow citizens (and, I suppose, readers as well) swallow without question the counterintuitive (if you bother to think about it) belief that consensual intergenerational sexual relationships are at best dangerous to the younger participant. Even the most enthusiastic younger participant, an entire class of person strenuously denied by conventional opinion, may eventually be badgered by the accumulated mass of years of its droning, weighed against the tragic effervescence of memory, into believing that (a) his or her consent was culpably compelled by the elder one; (b) their sex was, for that very reason alone, traumatizing; and (c ) the trajectory of such trauma is not only as immutably unidirectional as that of gravity, but also its path eternally the same — from the most superficial itchy genital nerve endings of the elder deep into the softest throbbing heart-chambers of the younger, bastard rasp ever doomed to impale placenta. That’s my tendentious reading of what happened in this sad case, anyway.
( It goes on . . . and on . . . . ) |