I would think that it's evident that I was being flip. I think the entire
issue is pretty silly--sex suffuses the lives of all of us, celibate and
profligate alike.
Mark
At 12:06 PM 3/24/2001 -0800, Annie wrote:
>i don't know if artists are better lovers, because they can be pretty
>selfish sometimes - don't take offense to that. i think that artists know
>what they want from love, and would like to share their idea of love with
>the person they have choosen.
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>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:03:09 +1100, Poetryetc provides a venue for a
>dialogue relating to poetry and poetics, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> >Artists are extraordinarily good lovers, whatever their preferences. Any
> >artist will tell you that.
>
> But do their lovers agree?
>
> Sufism, the only religion to beatify poets, privileges transgressive love
> as a necessary stage on the path to God. Passionate sexual love, of
> whatever orientation, is certainly seen as a transgressive energy in the
> mores of our society, it challenges too many boundaries, and is strongly
> discouraged - being split off into the parodic polarities of "romantic
> love" or pornography, or just sedated in the aneasthetic ideal of
> marriage.
>
> Best
>
> Alison
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>I'm so far behind I'll never die.
> Calvin & Hobbes
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