> Yes, basically - but the impulse of sexuality is to the obliteration of
> the other in the service of one's own desires, and therefore may erase
> the other altogether. Carried to its logical extreme, you have the
> libertine. Pornography is always anonymous: it may involve other bodies,
> but only in the service of a singular desire. The other's self doesn't
> enter into the equation.
I want to qualify this basically correct description. I want to say: the
impulse of *pornographic* sexuality is to the obliteration of the other,
etc.
Is that the only kind we have? If so, then we should all kill ourselves. I
haven't killed myself yet. Either I'm being inconsistent, or I know or think
I know something that the pornographer doesn't, or thinks s/he doesn't, or
is in the business of denying.
- Dom
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