The range of sexuality  

as an essential in competent fiction writing 

EVERYTHING YOU EVER

WANTED TO WRITE ABOUT SEX*  

*But where too breathless and demure  to research! 

 

 

 

Writing is like making love.  Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. 

—Isabel Allende

 

The only good plot is a delayed fuck.
—Louis B. Mayer

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

    —Anthony Burgess

 

A dirty mind is a joy forever.

   —Oscar Wilde

•more aphorisms

 

 

Q. What is sex appeal? 

-Or, Was it Good for You Too? 

A. crucial to believable biology and culture with supply and demand in any Model of Love Economics in World Building, can onstage Sex in the Story and issues of fantastic carnality, after all no less consequential and significant than in the innate reality comprehensively overviewed, and with all the social drama of erotic transgression, indeed, such an elemental life long motivating dimension of the human condition and the world we live in or most any other, hence reciprocally integral to much the same writing competency as, and surely among the fundamentals of fiction writing, ever properly comprise a subject matter apart? 

Even if not by anything so vulgar or blatant as any particular explicit sex act or most basic plotline of an encounter, enticement, onstage sex appeal or seduction of one kind or another or by one means or another may be crucial in a story, or otherwise, one way or another, for sex appeal generally to factor into relationship and interaction and provide the opportunity for one character to flatter, flirt, seduce, beguile, to motivate or influence, even manipulate, or, likewise, to be motivated or influenced, even manipulated, by another character, to succumb or to resist, colluding and abetting or refusing and defecting, trust or control, even in confrontation with sexual politics at it's very worst.

The three motivating principle cofactors in effective manipulation also applicable in pandering, are whatever the incentive and disincentive vulnerabilities of the target(s), the tactics of the manipulator(s), and time for the relationship to develop under whatever conditions, free or captive.

The phenomenon of manipulation is best defined as undue advantage from trickery via the exploitation of affective innate and conditioned triggers or "push buttons" to undermine and overwhelm, even barrage, resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target, via insidiously motivating subtext of emotional positive incentive and negative disin> of emotional positive incentive and negative disincentive. –As distinct from open coercion alone or substantive disinformation, lies. Typically, the manipulator obfuscates the nature of their coercion exercised, along with whatever self-serving advantage thereof, whatever their own ultimate motivation.

Positive incentive manipulation or pandering is such as deviously appeals to value in fantasy and desire, love, sex greed, promoting false hope of whatever gain, in order to circumvent or overwhelm resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target. Whereas an example of negative disincentive manipulation, such insult as condescension that after all comes of love can be less painful than insult that comes without it, or more so, or equally so, as the case may be: but be that as it may, it is, in any case significantly more harmful. This is because insult provokes anger and hostility, but hostility towards people who even sincerely profess to love you and act on your own best interest is curbed and turned inwards, internalized, and experienced on the level of inner conflict of self-hostility, namely guilt. Such deceptive appeals undermining the target’s credulity and defenses even whilst actually exercising coercion constitute often likewise internalized flagrantly manipulative behavior, conscious or unconscious, selfish, indifferent or just desperate.

Because variables of rounded characterization and situation from which levels of conflict arise, must include not only anatomical sex, physique, voice and so on, as well as mannerisms and style, together with sexual preference or orientation, sexroles, gender identity and also the yin/yang of gender culture and stereotypical dysfunctionality, such as, incidentally, may also be associated Epistemologically as rational and Empirical Versus intuitive or not only culturally but more specifically to setting geographically as Occidental Versus Oriental:

Be a mensch!  A synthesis of single minded convergent thinking with nuanced situational Gestalt may be achievable in the intellectual cultural Jewish trait or aptitude of justice, proportion, perspective and whole integrity, especially as refined in prewar Germany, by Einstein, Freud and Marx, Relativistically, via the integrative synthesis of divergent frames of reference or POV, everything from time dilation and inner life to a larger view of economics, overviews and special cases.

Why then, must dearest lovers compromise and sacrifice all that is of real meaning? Why, only for a codependent false sense of security. Such are controlling fear based relationships. A zero-sum relationship is one in which the parties each gain only from what the other gives up, but non-zero-sum denotes productively actually coming out ahead. Reciprocal gains without reciprocal cost. Indeed, ultimately, true love should be free to Altruism, advancing the interests of the beloved, and deserves reciprocation. And so, what must accrue, lofty romantic perseverance and illusion, vulgar and cynical tit-for-tat, even jeopardy of the complete breakdown of trust? Indeed, the shortest distance, the straight line, is the least common path to any happy ending, if at all. Nor will anything so simple, with no obstacle or complication to keep the outcome in doubt, ever make for drama, only pandering at best.

The Rules, so called, codify common ruthless manipulation by women, basically by gold diggers of one stripe or another. Although, if it makes anyone feel any better, it may often be suggested that all such classic feminine whiles and connivance are but the classic tactics of the oppressed, collaboration with the abuser adaptive of real deadly captivity even dating from ancient time frame. And even in recent generations, livelihood and survival remained very much at stake.

But now a days in our affluent world, there is the painful luxury of reflection, the Socratic worthlessness of the unexamined life, and the tragedy of women playing the same games, but playing so very badly, even seemingly Masochistically, the reality of Stockholm Syndrome (even as prevalent, by degrees) being nowhere ever near as gratifying as the kinky fairytale.

Intensity, uncertainty, every Technique of Suspense plotting, temptation, curiosity and hesitation, all the sexual tension of freedom, autonomy, choice, responsibility, all calling to self-realization hither to inconceivable, the permissiveness of emerging and relevant romance from crushingly repressive tradition of honor killing, prostitution, arranged marriage or cutthroat mercenary matrimonial competition around the world, is the outward struggle with maddening indecision, levels of inner conflict as often arises between desires and confusion or fear, between what one wants and what one thinks one wants or ought to, desperation for validation, guilt. Between the crutches of insecurity and the yearning for genuine warmth, fraudulent conditionality versus genuine intimacy.

Indeed, the reason nice guys finish last, is because the sheer cruelty and emptiness of the old wretched game, and a very serious business it was, the sexrole of exploitative cynical struggle for survival by womankind effectively obstructed or deterred from gainful careers reserved for their men folk, depends upon frigid depraved indifference and avoiding the central tragedy of historical Romance, namely the dire danger of involvement and grave sacrifice presented in a man that a woman might care for, therefore useless from the perspective or POV of a controlling gold digger, being however for real, emotionally accessible and at all beyond simple control by manipulation.

Now days, however, the rising standard of living has reduced real literal survival pressure enough that emotional need emerges and loneliness takes hold. But the same intergenerational transactional "script" remains, now become maladaptive.

Hence, not only do such desperate women still expertly sabotage love, but they have lost the sterner stuff for effective exploitation of men. As a result, they attain involvement, but mostly in the Ecclesiastical futility of pointlessly unhappy melodrama, aggravation and petty vicissitude. They have lost tradition and still fallen behind the times, abiding in limbo and achieving the worst of both worlds, a decided dramatic low point.

Hence, a sympathetic romantic heroine is one who finds in herself the courage for growth and hope to reach out, and her romantic lead is he who awakens her. Otherwise, to paraphrase Nietzsche, even a princess of fools is a laughable bimbo herself! -And her Prince Charming is likely just another thugly playa. Antithetical foils.

Characters develop out of situation, and plot ideas emerge from characters in different situations and the actions undertaken because of their relationships and conflict on many levels, the friction entailed as characters come into contact, dramatic conflict on many levels, internal and external, classic reversal in social connection as in the estrangement of the bullied idealistic whistle blower.

 Put the whistle blowers in charge!

All manner of situations, even quite unforeseen, may present any range of obstacles, from an empty bread box standing in the way of the perfect sandwich,  perplexing riddles and secrets denying truth, engineering limitations in the path of invention or a natural disaster barring very survival, but also, no less, a bad hair day spoiling Romance or a misunderstanding threatening love.

The dramatic efficacy of revealing and motivated subtext is in frustrated desire, giving rise to need and ingenuity. Drama is the gripping and engaging tension-laden presentation of conflict on many levels, whether or not the storyline is even believable. Drama is conflict inherent to situation, conflict being more than merely an event, but a condition, a relationship. Alas, however, beware! poor staging or presentation of conflict on any level dissipates inherent drama. No Powderpuff Pitty-Pat! Throughout the plot, every Technique of Suspense plotting is heightened as things are made more difficult, the personal emotional stakes are raised, and character growth is pressed by worsening complications for an active protagonist. So navigate the various possible paths and dead ends and to find stories always dig deeper for insight into struggle.

Each event in sequence that follows from motivated character action consistent with background, must in turn initiate from observable proximate stimulus unless entirely emerging from inner life, and, either way, rather than simply remaining mysterious, known only the mind of the character, must one way or another be shown intelligibly to the audience, even if none of any other characters; either way, in turn, quite probably another vitally important plot point. Whenever the cause and effect chain ever omits such links, expect plot holes stumbling amid succession of unrelated events.

Q. What is tension?

A. Tension,  every Technique of Suspense plotting, anticipation, clues and doubt as to the outcome, hence pathos and, leave us face it, discomfort and aversion, may arise even from mystery, onstage sex appeal, the unknown, opportunity and/or threat, conflict many levels with an obstacle, events unfolding or outcome in any way in doubt. Tension is stress, and the innate or conditioned emotional, neurochemical and physiological preparative change or stress response to challenge, stimuli or stressors may be either distress and dread as to threat and emergency or eustress, the euphoric stress of pleasant anticipation, even sexual tension or the demands of pleasant activities in general, creativity, power and opportunity.

Even humor or comic relief depends upon foreplay, tension from an insecurity brought to a resolution or climax called the punch line, that may be either surprising or else even obvious and anticipated, just so long as the tension builds and then crests. Teasing, well meaning or otherwise, also cultivates and builds stress, tension. So does flirtation, but likewise manipulation, rejection or indifference and harassment or threat. Tension, stress, can be either distress or eustress:

Within the general concept of stress, however, we must differentiate between distress (from the Latin dis = bad, as in dissonance, disagreement), and eustress (from the Greek eu = good, as in euphonia, euphoria). During both eustress and distress the body undergoes virtually the same nonspecific responses to the various positive or negative stimuli acting upon it. However, the fact that eustress causes much less damage than distress graphically demonstrates that it is "how you take it" that determines, ultimately, whether you can adapt successfully to change.

'The Nature of Stress' by Hans Selye

 

After all, life itself is energetic stress within organic matter.

“The only escape from stress is death.”

 

Indeed, actually increasing eustress turns out to be fundamental to so many of our pleasures of a life well lived,, from the anticipatory suspense enjoyed in Creative Tension, drama and comedy, even to the relief experienced from deep tissue massage.

• Damsel in Distress: Techniques of Suspense plotting

Every plotting Technique of building Suspense depends upon pacing, and for greater tension, show don't tell, and never throw the emotional circuit breaker. By every Technique of Suspense plotting, the rising tension and of dramatic conflict signifies that the resolution of whatever the central problem is such as to increasingly press character(s) inevitably to take action in struggle with whoever or whatever the antagonist in some way that must one way or another bring the very values of said character(s) into question for them.

Or, most dramatically, an attempt at howsoever the wiser course may instead press a character into conflict on every level with their own motivating values for which they will be compelled to sacrifice the easier way because the moral course and the more difficult among free willed choices may so often coincide.

Of course, neurochemistry is bound to reflect changing emotion. But there are also clear special cases of the reverse, of emotion instead subordinate to neurochenical fluctuation, as for examples: puberty and menopause. Hence, arguing from sheer stubborn lack of imagination and circuitous reasoning, simply ignoring rather than howsoever investigatively eliminating all that is well known applicably regarding traumatic and environmental causation, springs forth the myth of endogeny, of congenital neurochemically spontaneous anxiety among other chronic cognitive or emotional states, together with the Stress Vulnerability Model of Psychiatric Disorders being flawed only in how what is called: biological vulnerability is, again, no determinant on it's own, being, of course, actually universal and even generally uniform in the human condition. Indeed, clearly the determinant is nurture, not nature or: nature via nurture [Matt Ridley]. Obviously, neurologucal heredity, biological evolved behavioral genetic nature, only and fairly consistently enables the Empirical capacities for learning by encoding from the Phenomena, from experience, from nurture, to begin with. Experience is also now understood to trigger epigenetic change in genetic expression. Fraudulent obfuscation and denial to the contrary on either count, are only the current preferred high powered junk science marketing tactic of the Psychopharmacolical industry, pandering to compassion burn out and desperation, "soullessly" mocking and trivializing such cherished illusions as the yearning for understanding and with them all Philosophically meaningful values arising from the deep wellsprings of human emotional needs. Whereas it used to be that when a patient complained of anxiety out of the blue with no trigger, administering the old talking cure, the Therapist would gently ask the patient what they just happened to be thinking of at the time, however supposedly unconnected to whatever mysterious attacks from out of the blue, and guide them past their denial into catharsis and insight. Instead, disregarding the mind still leaves the physical brain, therefore Behaviorism is routinely called into service in standing support of neurochemical Reductionism along with the myth of endogeny, comprising the long refuted blanket rationale for so often reckless psychopharmacologiy.

Sexual tension

Stories and scenes are made memorable not merely in whatever empathy or curiosity merely as to the plot situation, but because of the reader or audience relationship, actual motivated feelings elicited for or even against the characters.

Mo matter the tone or attitude, atmosphere or ambiance, as evoked by the perfect setting, by Writing from the Senses, SUBTLE AND sensuously, with some reference to sensory perception in every paragraph, describing not only what a character sees, but hears, smells, tastes; the wind on his or her skin, the drone of insects, whatever, for richness of texture the senses remain key to Techniques of Suspense plotting and particularly to building onstage sexual tension and even aversion. Therefore, details of reflection, perception and experience must be chosen to draw out the moment that the reader may in turn be drawn into whatever the ambiance or other qualities of the passage or sequence, whichever point in the narrative.

Inevitably, to show or evoke characterization, wherein motivation should be apparent, even through thoughts, however expository, onstage sex appeal may dramatically motivate conflict on many levels, emerging through subtext, What Lurks Beneath and body language, all shown by way of each of the senses in setting, action and atmospheric tone along with the Subtle and Delicate Art of Doublespeak dialogue, may either harmonize with text, or in true Method subtext, all even disagree with text, subtly, so as to draw attention into a  deeper vein or level of conflict by being subtly wrong , with the obstacles to love promoting sexual tension; love, hate, desire, attraction, increasing the tension and pathos of every Technique of Suspense plotting and anticipation, even discomfort and aversion, character conflict on many levels among the dramatis personae, within society, against fate or simply oneself, building upon levels of inner conflict, stress, desperation, indecision and frustration that must culminated either in resignation, despair, resolve or madness, not to mention Transference and the compelling transport of high fantasy reaching From Werewolf Sex To Bunny Love, not just Writing Love Scenes, or if one prefers, Quality Sex Scenes, but everything from the 'rules' for romance writing offering concise guidance for the dramatic plot structure of melodramatic pandering affirming and empowering girl cooties, all as doubtless programmed into the Computerized Romance Writer, to erotic role-play of the sage and sexpert advice of Susie Bright.

• Is It Love...Or Just Wishful Thinking?
• Six Ingredients of a Sensual Romance Novel
• Why Not Write Sensual Romance
• Sexual Tension in Romance Writing
• 10 Tips to Writing Love Scenes
• essentials to realize and intensify love scenes
• How much, how soon, how detailed...
• Blood 'n' guts In-yer-face  angst does not equal depth

In the immortal words of Sigmund Freud: “sex is everything!”

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity  — Mignon McLaughlin

Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. — Nietzsche

Sex is hardly ever just about sex  — Shirley MacLaine

 

 

Certainly, all manner of sexual clichés provide more than just the warning against tired prose, but also an insight into universal motivations, key to more than just passionate sex scenes as a writing exercise. Sexual response is both innate and cultivated. Sex elicits affect and entails context. Sex, from furtive eye contact up to the exchange of bodily fluids and every surrounding ritual, is imbued with meaning and values by civilization, personal associations by the individual, and biological imperatives by evolution.  Sex entails all that we are in all that we are. Sex brings out both the best and the ugliest. And thus, for believable characters involved in conflict on different levels and in situations that make any sense and advance the plot, sexual behavior ought to proceed from motivation and situation no less than anything else. 

Sex, as it is so often said, is natural. And that becomes the rationale for pandering, even if in the guise of affirmation and validation, propaganda outright. However, the begged question remains. Indeed, as is often asked, is sex necessary? - And, distinct from just life generally,  in works of culture, specifically...

No, of course not.

After all, there are videos of yarn to fascinate house cats! (For cats, as everybody knows, though some are quite affectionate, can often be of that particularly self sufficient temperament all their own.)

Indeed, any work bowdlerized and eviscerated becomes flaccid and desiccated, as stilted and inhuman as any moving lure for dumb animals. Believable and appealing characters, however "settled", must be motivated and behave and talk according to their relationships and sexroles of whatever milieu appropriate to the setting, even in the most cerebral of stories. 

Even eschewing anything remotely explicit or graphic, the red hot purple passion prose, no matter how tame or "child safe", in capable fiction sexuality of some kind still manifests itself. For the key in writing to any younger audience or any other tender sensibility, is never actually expurgation, but simply toning it down or transposition somehow, but seldom in truly eliminating every trace of sex. 

A story that isn't at all racy may only omit overt sexuality and strong undercurrents, not sexuality at all, which is an aspect of human nature, characterization, relationship and milieu, setting. After all, as the Good Book says, "the child is father to the man".

Certainly, all manner of sexual clichés provide more than just the warning against tired prose, but also an insight into universal motivations, key to more than just passionate sex scenes as a writing exercise.

Sexual response is both innate and cultivated. Sex elicits affect and entails context. Sex, from furtive eye contact up to the exchange of bodily fluids and every surrounding ritual, is imbued with meaning and values by civilization, personal associations by the individual, and biological imperatives by evolution. 

Abusive and treacherous bullies, the proverbial bad apple ruining the entire metaphorical barrel, never bother much or even so much as think to consult the rest of us democratically, and lurking in our midst like Thought Police, thereby effectively manufacture and take upon themselves to enforce social norms and cynical expectations for everyone, simply because we never know who they are until we are already involved and it's far too late. For such is opportunity cost. Therefore any search for romantic encounters and connections are rendered so cagy and mistrustfully into the classic true to life drama of the prisoner's dilemma each time, affording every advantage in betraying and denouncing the other before they can do likewise to you!

 

That is the real reason for and what promotes insecurity, resentment, dependency, control and possessiveness, no matter how rationalized, glorified and propagandized. And that is my Orwell states explicitly that, and even no matter how seemingly or ostensibly "vanilla," the intimacy of good sex at all is already taboo and deviant, a threat to society, simply in being such a genuine subversive act of collusion in a world of divisive chronic suspicion and oppressive mass control. In George Orwell's '1984' that is what Winston and Julia had and why they had to be destroyed by Ingsoc. Because, from the very beginning, like unto battered spouses all, we are each already promised to another, being Big Brother with his recruits everywhere, eager self appointed minions all, ever watching our every move and thought.

 

Nevertheless, even the praising saints and poets yearn to be ravished by God wooing humanity unto Rapture! Yes, God's story is also a Romance. And where once they sought to share narcotic communion, one day soon they'll only want to jack into the Net!

Why, even a real boy like Pinocchio, yearning for his Blue Fairy, may instead become beguiled and exploited by Dracula's daughter or even the pedophile Coyote spirit of traditional Native American cautionary fables! Or, more prosaically, in the course of growing up, any ordinary person might, likewise, simply become drawn, by a crush of any sort, to relate to anyone else more human, imperfect and complicated.

Indeed, at the risk of seeming unduly Freudian, with all those big eyed bashful peek-a-boo, cuddly bump and tickle, what, exactly, is 'Teletubbies' but the most blatant and puerile porno for toddlers?! Brilliant in it's simplicity. Or has some narrative subtlety eluded me, here?

Kidding aside, 'Teletubbies', targeted at the youngest viewing audience ever in the history of television, is age appropriately educationally effective, precisely because preverbal tots do respond. Indeed, the key in writing to any younger audience or any other tender sensibility, is never expurgation but simply toning it down or perhaps sublimation one way or another. 

And the point of truth in jest remains, that the appeal of 'Teletubbies' includes such attention, contact and expression that is only arbitrarily distinguished and divorced from that which may be deemed sexual foreplay, indeed such that Freud might well classify as infant sexuality, and without which babies are well known to actually and literally die from neglect and loneliness.  That is why, necessarily, controversy and ambivalence not withstanding, perception is shaped and boundaries are drawn not only for protection of the innocent, but also to define and allow some range of licit interaction at all throughout life, instead of complete isolation, or so one might hope. Just imagine struggling to explain the human dangers of Pedophilia an alien life form!

It is even declared by science that the comfort sought by a perfectly normal child curling up in the embrace of an adult care giver, if monitored and recorded with whatever sort of biosensors, might often physiologically qualify as sexual, even if the very thought scarcely occurs in the innocent mind of the child. All that the latter signifies, however, is that the boundary between what is benign and what is dangerous to children, between what Freud calls: infant sexuality, and pedophile exploitation, will likely never be quantifiable merely physiologically. Indeed, the lines have been drawn so completely differently by different cultures throughout history. Is it all entirely arbitrary, then? Infant sexuality is distinct from pederasty or pedophilia, in that infant sexuality is recognizable in the intrinsically motivated initiative in the behavior of children, developmentally crucial and in danger of being undermined by pedophilia, hence conflict of interests and abuse of trust in fiduciary relationship. And alas, by that salient standard, no matter how Platonic, our educational system, similarly destructive to autonomy,  engages in ongoing molestation that has engendered in the population, a pandemic of lifelong generalized anxiety disorder, and all for our own good! The problem isn't with sex but with love, with coercion and trust, of intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation as ever, and the corruption that frequently attends upon power relations at all.

Though all such gambits and conceits must be embraced more poetically than scientifically, attempt  has even been undertaken to quantify tradeoff between freedom and security, Thermodynamically!  As all so typical in our educational system, concern for safety and risk avoidance, all to often inspires patronizingly abrogation of much needed need  sympathy, freedom and respect.

• A Continuum Model of Participants and Experiences & Negotiating Stigma

May to December

“You're only as old as the woman you feel.”  — Groucho Marx

 

 

Indeed, the all to familiar foibles of May / December romance make for endless Sitcom fodder, often in conjunction with the banalities of midlife crisis. Neither drama, trauma nor stigma of taboo end entirely with boundaries explicitly demarcated by law. Nevertheless, for all the protestation and shock of eternal moralistic vigilance, in truth sexual fascinations between younger and older is really nothing new, but perhaps the most universal and plan vanilla of kinks, if even to call is so. And among the perhaps less unflattering formulaic rationalizations thereof, are the quest for any sort of parent figure reciprocated by any nurturing instinct. Or perhaps transgression of the generation gap transcends eternity! But the truth may be even simpler, sexuality and  age difference merely presenting additional complication:

One way or another, anyone drawn close to one another howsoever despite having no apparent business being together by every social norm, might well be strongly motivated, one way or another for meaningful study in human nature well beyond the empty and simplistic pandering of moralism.

 

For if there is ever a more grave and dramatically redolent social transgression between individuals than simmering onstage Sex in the Story, it's simple respect which may constitute the most forbidden experience or exchange- And between generations, even more so! Thence, any proficient writer of throbbing tawdry Romance will immediately understand the unexpected intensification of exactly such recognition of compatibility parameters in an explosive May/December encounter in the exchange of seasoned sagacity for youthful vigor. And don't smirk, I know you love it.

To begin with, people all need not only to share anything in common, but need to look up to for any more advanced personal assets or qualities of character, situation and perspective or POV. Indeed, compatibility is well understood to depend upon crucial similarities and differences, too. Indeed, people are well understood to be drawn to others to whom they identify because they share one quality of value to them, and whom they can also look up to because of another shared quality in which the other howsoever exceeds them. If the other reciprocates likewise seeing some shared valued quality and also some superior aspect to look up to in the other, then they may connect. Indeed, there are no end of combinatory variations, optimization however becoming statistically the more frustrating, the greater or more unique intelligence, talent and disposition, especially for the gifted so often known for propensity towards such markedly uneven asynchronous development, beyond their age group in seriousness and intimacy needs and concepts of friendship, perhaps even while falling behind in other capacities and characteristics, perhaps even social aptitude in particular. And also, there will always be individuals whom as they advance in years yet remaining at all vital, may be disappointed to find their own age group peers increasingly stodgy, antisocial, unapproachable or insular, even as often married and in retreat from old friends much less cultivating new relationships or any kind in order not to retreat from society.  

 

Hence all manner of relationships between younger and older gifted peers may be not only inevitable but actually ever more crucial in a population increasingly consisting of the neglected and abused gifted and atypical or: twice exceptional, gifted yet with learning disabilities, indeed, ongoing products of lifelong asynchronous development, perhaps, for example, even emotionally advanced in relationship needs, yet falling behind and awkward socially and also perhaps somewhat indifferent to arbitrary seeming social norms. Though advancing technology is ever in the habit of eventual overthrow of biological destiny, nevertheless for the time being, even the twice exceptional must eventually come into puberty and then age along with everyone else. Indeed, Platonically to begin with, let alone anything more, the widespread mediocrity of generation gap has arisen a norm specifically of post industrial society, yet necessarily predicated upon typical and uniform synchronous development. (Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.) 

 

      So imagine boldly chalking out on the blackboard:

Premise: All (Heterosexual?) even potentially non Platonic age gap relationships are bad.  

Corollary: All such as above must be prevented or curtailed, by any means necessary.

Now, who in their right minds can actually be so gullible as to endorse any so simplistic and half-baked a mandate of social intervention?  Consistency would only be melodramatically typical of Manichean culture-war, and inconsistency hypocritical, even often self serving and exploitative.

Whereas: "In a good play, everyone is right."  In dramatizing controversy, good motivated and dramatic dialogue makes it hard to tell who is right and who is wrong. Capable drama, whether as merely imagined in in fiction or actually agitated by political activism into social evolution, needs must strive for more socially responsible thematic exploration than via pandering to dishonest  propaganda manipulation and hate and fear mongering, seeking for believable complication motivated from conflicting priorities out of genuinely interesting problems and issues.

 

	Trusting and naive ingénue or conniving coquette?

     

Progress free from dramatic obstacle is sheer wish fulfillment!

Pandering if not as literally to act as a go-between or liaison in sexual intrigues or function as a procurer, denotes similarly even however vicariously to cater to the lower tastes and desires and wish fulfillment fantasies of others or most specifically, thereby to exploit their weaknesses, as even by the most obsequious flattery in the guise of affirmation, validation, and even thereby exploitatively winning unearned trust by ploys of however manipulative and dishonest  propaganda manipulation outright.  Such emotional appeals or motivation, to the heart, passions, gut feelings.

Blatant hate and fear mongering propaganda panders to any lowest common denominator of basest instinct, also include loaded or slanted emotional appeal employing language that is calculated to get a particular reaction from readers. Pandering and hence the repertoire of propaganda, also includes out and out sob stories and soppy sentimental tearjerkers, even to be rated by the number of hankies needed! manipulating readers' emotions in order to lead them to draw however unwarranted or poorly supported and even well refutable conclusions.

The three motivating principle cofactors in effective manipulation also applicable in pandering, propagandistically or otherwise, are whatever the incentive and disincentive vulnerabilities of the target or targets, the tactics of the manipulator(s), and time for the relationship to develop under whatever conditions, free or captive.

The phenomenon of manipulation is best defined as undue advantage from trickery via the exploitation of affective innate and conditioned triggers or "push buttons" to undermine and overwhelm, even barrage, resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target, via insidiously motivating subtext of emotional positive incentive and negative disincentive. –As distinct from open coercion alone or substantive disinformation, lies. Typically, the manipulator obfuscates the nature of their coercion exercised, along with whatever self-serving advantage thereof, whatever their own ultimate motivation.

Positive incentive manipulation or pandering is such as deviously appeals to value in fantasy and desire, love, sex greed, promoting false hope of whatever gain, in order to circumvent or overwhelm resistance, caution, better judgment and autonomy of the target. Whereas an example of negative disincentive manipulation, such insult as condescension that after all comes of love can be less painful than insult that comes without it, or more so, or equally so, as the case may be: but be that as it may, it is, in any case significantly more harmful. This is because insult provokes anger and hostility, but hostility towards people who even sincerely profess to love you and act on your own best interest is curbed and turned inwards, internalized, and experienced on the level of inner conflict of self-hostility, namely guilt. Such deceptive appeals undermining the target’s credulity and defenses even whilst actually exercising coercion constitute often likewise internalized flagrantly manipulative behavior, conscious or unconscious, selfish, indifferent or just desperate.

Though certainly, there are, always, of course, if not drama per se, then other whatever loftier social or entirely artistic aims in any subject matter, delicate or indelicate, then again, for writers no less than their characters, pandering and personal disclosure alike often present such blocks and barriers of inhibition to overcome as self-consciousness or even sheer anhedonic moralism and squeamishness outright.

Stories are made memorable not merely in whatever empathy or curiosity merely as to the plot situation, but because of the reader or audience relationship, actual motivated feelings elicited for or even against the characters. And any motivation may do!

Yes, leave us face it, sex appeal may simply pander to sensationalism and/or flights of fantasy, escapism and wish fulfillment for the reader's guilty vicarious pleasure. After all, as the old saying goes, sex sells! Blatant or subtle. Certainly, the erotic is a value, indeed, an  aesthetic category.

"genres that are most popular tend to offer magical resolutions to irreconcilable social problems and tensions."

 

-The utopian fantasy of Deep Throat  

But, please GHOD not just the belabored bludgeoning obsessions of the writer! Only tiresome zealots need to be pandered to and stoked upon every single point of dogmatic ideology. Of course, the most truly destructive is manipulative dishonest propaganda pandering to hypocrisy. But if POV will not be thoughtful and literate, then, at least let us have good trash, pandering if we must, self indulgence of the reader, not the writer, grabbing the readers, not beating them over the head. Remember to evoke the senses, show don't tell action that actually advances the plot. And building the tension of every Technique of Suspense plotting, even in vicarious pandering, depends upon pacing.

Because, to follow another old saying, capable writing still reveals something about human nature. Even sheer vicarious pandering in it's appeal to the universal fantasies of the audience. While bad self indulgent obsessive writing reveals far too much about the author. Particularly when it comes to such awkward self indulgence that only displays whatever especially obsessive proverbial "axe to grind", personal preoccupation, attachment or morbid fixation, prurient or otherwise, to the exclusion of all else.

Prolong the Agony by making life difficult so as to motivate characters. Don't be nice to your character! No Powderpuff Pitty-Pat! Even pander to vicarious wish fulfillment, but also inspire pathos, anticipation, every Technique of Suspense plotting even dread and even the discomfort of sheer aversion. Stir any range of emotions and force the reader to empathize, to feel. That's what makes for good entertainment, a real page turner.

And so, leave us never forget error checking, but learn a lesson in writing about sex, from the euphemistically symbolic to the clinically explicit, even the descriptive vocabulary and naming of body parts! from the past winners of The Literary Review's Bad Sex Award bestowed upon the most pretentious, tasteless, embarrassing, otiose, self-infatuated or redundant description of the sexual act published during the past year.

nevertheless, perhaps the most debilitating of all fetish to fiction writing remains the overwhelming and unthinking compulsion to censor or to Bowdlerize. Again, of necessity, the key in writing "child safe" to any younger audience or to any other tender sensibility, is never true and utter expurgation, but simply in toning down anything even remotely explicit, skirting the central question by mere tender suggestion, leaving characterization, motivation and drama intact.

‘Anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that the writings which comprise it are ludicrous without their subjective content.’ [If not somewhat clinical, or perhaps, then again: Tantric ]

 

-Elizabeth Benedict, Joy of Writing Sex

The surreally kinky fairytale of Stockholm Syndrome

Alas, there are always those so tragically hardcore and deeply disturbed, genuinely masochistic and anhedonic, that only real danger and self destruction remain enticing, acceptable and licit. Otherwise, thankfully, just as roller coasters and other popular "barf-rides" harmlessly simulate the thrill of a nearly averted vehicular disaster, classic fairytale ravishment, bondage and captivity fantasies and erotic role-play can safely liberate into fantasy and teasing sexual foreplay all the classic drama or shameless melodrama, as the case may be, forbidden thrill and every other Technique of Suspense plotting, of hope toyed with, of the captive struggling seductively to win whatever small kindness of the threatening captor or attacker and survive, and all manner of desperate desire to be expressed, received and fulfilled in an all to blatant and obvious paradoxical intention of "Reverse Psychology."

   said Briar Rabbit...

(Oh, don't tease me, please me!)

Indeed, the kinky fairytale of Stockholm Syndrome, by adamant denial unfettered beyond the burdensome restraints logical contradictions in hard reality, all of the unflagging faith, goodness empathy and connection of the innocent and unrecognized virtuous victimized princess soiled dove, can in the flights of fantasy of impromptu Psychodrama, finally and truly be vindicated by finally at long last redeeming their own unflagging faith in the biggest jerk, most hopeless confirmed loser or even the very worst villain, abuser or bully! I knew there was good in you, Daddy...

            Well, spank me!

So much better than the real thing, baby!

 

Kinky fairytale ravishment, bondage and captivity fantasies of erotic role-play & surreal psychodrama provide safe escapist outlet, ardent and docile submission free from the anxiety that comes with volition, responsibility and guilty longing to express desire and likewise to be desired desperately.

Bitch in heat seeks            partner in crime

Whereas, of course, true life captivity and domination typically feature only cavalier indifferent neglect, manipulative abuse and exploitation, the resentment and dependency of Stockholm Syndrome (prevalent in varying degrees) even of the fairest damsel in distress ever "protected,"  inspires in poignant denial and rationalization all the appealing passionate fantasies of desperate desire, romantic, kinky or even mystical, indeed partaking of even melodramatic fairytale surrealism, hallucinatory Stockholm Syndrome doublethink in sheer unconcern for reality to the extent of such tremendous gaps in plot logic and believable character motivation, all even just for ribald laughs and camp comedic parody.

Here, then, is offered a Science Fiction speculation as a writer's prompt:

Dramatic stories are not usually of happy experiences. Indeed, if the ugly, clumsy and brutal reality of rape even remotely resembled hot transport of mythological fairytale ravishment fantasy, then rape would not merely have to be legal but mandatory!  

But what may actually yet be feasible is the nigh alchemic transformation of dysfunctional codependent trailer trash bickering into leather clad stylish hot vampire monkey sex! Again, all that it takes is the recognition of the surreal and an appreciation of the absurd. I know you want to!

Alas, women are all too often encouraged to take men and sexual opportunity for granted, and, no less prudishly intolerant than men, even to fear, revile and despise what comes to them too eager and easily, and in thrall to Stockholm Syndrome, to dread the forbidden fruit and wait patiently and even in some sort of erotic suspense for approval or permission that will never be forthcoming. Thus indecisive and unfulfilled, they think they keep their options open while squandering all. Clearly the kinky fantasy is eminently more fulfilling than the true life dysfunctional banality! But then, after all, beyond sheer pandering alone, good dramatic stories are seldom happy.

• Blood 'n' guts In-yer-face  angst does not equal depth

In truth, for the most part, men are either genuine, reasonably forthright and therefore accessible, "easy," or else only more manipulative not thereby and deeper or really any more chaste. Clearly a fraud that any woman might grow out of by consulting an honest man. There are also genuinely shy men, of course, despite how such may unfairly be regarded as a little odd! And all of this is uncomplicated. After all, any real woman ought to have the right stuff to seduce a shy man, unless she's completely self-absorbed.

But the drama of real complexity and depth of character, however, arises from empathy, regret and analytic disposition, and not just any level of common inner turmoil and conflict whatsoever. Alas, the vulgar preference and penchant for predictable melodrama, in both art and a life of senseless headgames full of pointless tribulation. And this is corruption in the Nietzschean sense, the subversion of instinct, the preference for the disadvantageous, all against which the struggle of true Feminist empowerment, no less than the Causeless Compassion of a mythic Wonder Woman, must fiercely contend.

For as Eve Tushnet points out in Eros and Education, even so integral and elemental a vital impulse as sex is meaningful expression of Eros, more than the quest for completion and transformation, the oft frustrated desire for connection, liberating union with alien difference inevitably first demanding resolution out of conflict on any level arising from whatever dread of the vulnerability entailed.

Even the very Art of Active Reading and listening is far from passive, intellectual and interpretive participation entailing construction of alternative narratives, imagination and visualization, adjustment of emphasis to suit one's own interests, and assembly of the story or information into whatever the cognitive schemata and context that make up one's own systems of knowledge and belief.

But "A union in which one partner is not vulnerable is an invasion; if neither partner submits, it is an armed truce. [And] Neither of these experiences frees us from the tyranny [and intrinsic loneliness of self involved banality]." 

So inextricable seems Eros with the conflict on so many levels that is engendered as often to be associated with Eris (Discord) and even Ares the god of war. Perhaps hence,  foremost among sexual fantasies with great popular appeal are the stand by Archetypes of Romance including Dangerous Heroes and Soldiers.

• Romantic Archetypes and tropes

 

 

Q. Why is sex significant?

A. Certainly as such literary tactics as above have been well and good enough even for such "corrupting" giants as Shakespeare not to mention God (for those who still embrace The Good Book as divinely inspired [and not to mention supremely smutty, but study the notorious®]), the most intelligent 'Star Trek' has often come up somewhat bawdy or risqué. And there is good reason for this: 

Sex is central in the human condition, history, speculation, culture, creativity, life exploration, yearning, fantasy rapture and ecstasy, horror, shame, tragedy, character development, identity, discovery, values, expectations, ideals and taboos, cultures, social commentary, satire, history, current events, and any projected future or fictional society, at least human and realistic, saturation aside. Sexuality will always reflect the evolution of biology, culture and technology.

• Hell Workshop
• Wikipedia: Sex in Science Fiction

In pornography the sex is always good but all the reader remembers is the intensity of the orgasm, but to quote John Casey, in Romance Fiction “…the swoon, the delicious palpitations of one’s heart is the real eroticism.” -which is to say, feather soft core.

• Differences sex writing for men and women
• Erotica Factor

But Literature as distinguished, narrowly defined and signified by the vaunted capital "L", striving, with however much sympathy and sensitivity, for the depth and meaning or else failure thereof, of psychological realism, even amid life at it's most prosaic, toned down or even at the most explicit, may therefore explore not the excitement of sex but its embarrassments, the nature of taboo, sensibility, sensitivity, fumbling awkwardness, situation and the inherent drama on the level of inner conflict,  classic reversal in all manner of social connection as in the estrangement of the bullied idealistic whistle blower.  

  Put the whistle blowers in charge!  

Indeed, although onstage sex may also figure prominently in the surreal or for shock value, the key to any dark erotica being fear and lust, while sex made ugly recalls the brutality of life, and Bedroom farce or Restoration Comedy of Manners makes dry whit of the discrepancy between real life and behavior with the outward conventional appearance of good order which people strive to maintain in a given milieu, in Science Fiction, as a facet of inventive and convincingly different evolutionary adaptation to other worldly environmental extremes, novel reproductive exobiology is often key to successful motivated characterization for more truly alien beings, otherwise all Zen futile and Tantric. 

And, always, there are also a plethora of variations (beginning with the basics of sexual orientation or preference), that, save, possibly, for associated taboos real or invented, tend to be interchangeable in most possible stories, that nevertheless remain of intense interest and concern to audiences, thus tempting easy and endless recycled standard plotlines with just such superficial changes, seldom doing justice neither to the real life social drama of erotic transgression nor to the thrills and agonies of clandestine relationships.

Otherwise, sex at all may actually become conspicuous by it's absence, as when writing celibate saints, loveless ghouls and passionless automatons.  Unless, perhaps, even Platonic relationships may find some other focus of passion, tension and conflict, none the least, deep emotional needs. 

• Tantra: the next best thing to necrophilia!

    Seriously: Who eats chocolate simply in order to transcend and overcome the pleasing flavor?

Public Health Advisory: Speaking the unspeakable of the elephant in the room

 

Sweet reason often amounts to sheer Ecclesiastical futility, especially when sweet reason is actually nothing of the sort, but only the coercive and traumatizing manipulative sex-negative shame. Politically correct lip service aside, any range of boneheaded risky behavior simply driven underground, has often only become the more dangerous. Anecdotally, crypto-moralistically guilt tripping people into sexually frustrating condom usage, has largely resulted in worsening unprepared risky behavior, specifically: bareback natural sex, and all too often increasingly drunk or stoned and hence the more immune impaired, but nevertheless, even if and when stone cold sober, no less at the naturally eventual and inevitable threshold of temptation and frustration. -Or even effective abandonment of precaution at all entirely! Such results are consistently foreseeable, observable and true. Placing blame only makes things worse, and then denial of precisely such moralism compounds the harm even further still:

 

The most unsafe behavior of all is shame and the shaming of others into irresponsible silence.

Behavior Modification remains a failure in very principle. Better to abandon propaganda and stay open and consistent from the get go, than to tempt backsliding and fate later on. Indeed, this entire simple truth of human nature, though no secret, being both entirely natural and entirely normal, is nevertheless quite taboo. The inevitable problem of such flagrantly purpose defeating technology is simply written off as "human failure." -Because, after all, condoms are completely reliable, when used correctly. Likewise, as observed by Rush Limbaugh, "Abstinence prevents sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy - every time it's tried." Indeed, does not the very expression: "human failure" that sounds so bland and technical, likewise squarely place blame and pass judgment on the individual? How Orwellian anti-sex: Much as in our educational system, the customer is always wrong! Indeed, hope for no escape afterwards in the fabled embrace of Morpheus: CPAP now does for sleep what condoms do for sex. Indeed, I must confess my entire failure at all to relate to erotic fixations with respirators and the like. 

And though while it may even be all but presumed to bash domineering pleasure centered males,  it will be especially dangerous for any woman even so much as to admit the ability to discern flesh from plastic. Freud's criticism of condoms as alienating, is conveniently forgotten under the rationalization of how the technology, indeed, has improved. Modern condoms are actually less obtrusive, therefore, however, it follows, only that much less alienating. Condom usage as the only socially acceptable sexual behavior, remains a patronizing,  intolerant and foolish strategy towards the inculcation of a partial abstinence, flying in the face of human nature and doomed to significant partial failure no less than abstinence only education is to fairly complete failure. I have only ever made the unfortunate acquaintance of but one person for whom condoms are actually enticing, and he is an emotionally unstable retarded rubber fetishist. Perhaps all that suggests a more potent behavioral conditioning solution to the problem at hand. I shudder to think!

Of course, any focus upon STD control, may tend to leave birth control as a separate issue. And it's no secret either, how crisis pregnancy is more often actually motivated by psychological unloved feelings of inadequacy, demonstration of potency and every social dysfunction whereof such unhappiness emanates, and in truth no accident, simple birth control failure, or even, really deep down, anything to do with howsoever sentiment towards the unborn. Therefore, societal response is typically misguided, even surreal in absurdity, entirely inappropriate and in need of strategic reform in order to discover and contend with the real issues.

Under any circumstances, self control tends to be by far the more debilitating under pressure than by at all free choice however constrained by circumstances or situation. That is why, until inoculation against and/or cure for AIDS, a more effective responsible respectful autonomy supportive sex-positive approach to AIDS prevention, might include dissemination of up to the minute research following optimal development of every promising resource and  good information about all tradeoffs variously entailed in every known strategy towards safer sex. Indeed, anything so redemptive of the dignity of sex for pleasure, might at the same time also even help at whatever the true root socio-psychological impulses behind many a crisis pregnancy.

Two alternative strategies available for autonomous and sensible people, have been ever less obtrusive spermicidal products ever coming onto the market, and ever better, simpler, quicker and more readily available tests for HIV infection beforehand, that are still a viable option for purposes of prophylaxis strategy, though, of course, then perhaps requiring whatever separate measures for birth control. But the circumstances regarding spermicides marketed only for birth control has been especially confusing: Obviously, the thought occurs that Nonoxinol-9, for whatever mysterious reason the only spermicide long available, though never explicitly claimed to stop AIDS transmission,  was more than strong enough to destroy any retrovirus, given that it was considered suitable for killing sperm! Otherwise, why where all lubricated condoms lined with Nonoxinol-9? Answer: For added protection. Added protection from what? Answer: Why, AIDS, the HIV, of course. The nonprescription vaginal spermicide Nonoxinol 9 has been the active ingredient in most spermicide and kills viri by destroying their protective fatty outer coating or shell, though, technically, by whatever happenstance, Nonoxinol 9 was never actually certified by the Food and Drug Administration for any such specific purpose. Therefore, Nonoxinol-9 was howsoever surreptitiously employed not just prophylacticly but antivirally to protect against AIDS transmission, furthermore suggesting that those vaunted reliable condoms alone, costly, awkward, cumbersome, subject to tearing, breakage and even degradation from prolonged exposure to sunlight at point of sale, where never really so trusted after all as we have all been so emphatically assured. Indeed, unlubricated condoms where marketed only in case of allergy to Nonoxinol-9, an irritating detergent after all. So, actually, two flawed technologies where combined in order to optimize safety. And how commonsensible and obvious that seems, finally stated openly, which it never quite is. However, condoms containing nonoxynol-9 have never been shown to be any more effective at protecting against pregnancy and STDs than condoms without spermicide. Worse, it turns out that not only anal but as summarily discovered, also vaginal membrane irritation caused by Nonoxinol-9 actually opens the way and increases risk of infection!

Honesty, faithful up to the minute reportage and open discourse upon the best information in quest of the widest range of varied strategic options available for individuals together towards maximizing benefit while minimizing risk, remains the best policy. And so it should come as no surprise that once again, scientific openness essential to respectful autonomy support, might have better served us all than Orwellian mealy mouthed propaganda righthink peer pressure socialization and failed wholesale patronizing consensus manipulation and behavioral conditioning that has not only always been so doomed to backfire psychologically and behaviorally, but that the chilling effect whereof has also so thoroughly undermined rational thinking and stifled all reasoned discourse. But exactly such is the appeal thereof, of the sadomasochistic and prudish siren song of virtuous self sacrifice, of demonization and placing blame, of the same endlessly dreary politics of mortification.

Hopes rise cautiously for new HIV gel and perhaps better still, the so-coined Molecular Stealth Condom. Therefore one night naively expect that any prospect of such ever less intrusive and more effective prophylactic technology would be eagerly welcomed and by all, but apparently that would be pleasure seeking and sinful! Therefore, (birth control at first having been so morally controversial because of religion) much as the pill was initially marketed ostensibly as a medication for menstrual irregularity and thus purportedly an aid to conception, now the tried and true publicly condoned marketing ploy of man-bashing, by focusing only upon the plight of women in the third world often dominated by men who not only refuse to use condoms, but presumably have not looked into any other strategies for safer sec, or who else perhaps actually oppose birth control, is employed towards the all important patronizing propaganda mission of sheepherding irresponsible stupid people for their own and the public safety instead of actually fostering and trusting human autonomy.

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     "One man's vulgarity is another's lyric."
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The elder child whispers secretively to the younger child: "That plumber over there is a homosexual!"

So the younger child looks up wide-eyed to the elder child, wondering: "What's a plumber?"

The moral: To the pure, all is... To the puerile, all is...

 

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