As Dorothy Allison said, "Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside," and that's just what I'm going to do.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
SEX: it's icky
I was recently directed to an article called "Sex and the Fat Girl" where the writer points out that *gasp* fat people have sex too, and you shouldn't think it's gross or wrong. I agree wholeheartedly that no-one should think a sexual relationship between two consenting adults is wrong, but let me let you in on a little secret: sex is gross.
It doesn't matter what you look like or who you're doing I think we can all agree that real sex is not something most people actually want to look at or think about. It's all messy angles, awkward noises and uncomfortable looking movements. No one really wants to look at or think about real sex. Well, unless you want to talk about how bad and evil it is...in which case I feel you should be getting laid yourself as you spend far too much time thinking about other people's sex lives, but I digress. Real sex between real people is not what we think about when we think about sex. No, we think about ads and pornos and when we are confronted with real sexual activity that doesn't immediately mesh with those views we freak out.
We are so used to overly packaged and carefully orchestrated sexuality that we forget that reality doesn't look like that.
Old people doing it: gross, teenagers: gross, tall people: gross, men: gross, women: gross, any real person doing it: gross.
Sex is awesome, fun, wonderful, and something no person should feel ashamed for doing with another consenting adult, but really I don't want to think about other people doing it and I sure as hell don't want to watch another person doing it...unless of course I'm doing it with them too!
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