‘Slowly, Tsukazaki unbuttoned his shirt, then slipped easily out of his clothes. … his body looked younger and more solid than any landman’s: it might have been cast in the matrix of the sea. Then… ripping up through the thick hair below the belly, the lustrous tower soared triumphantly erect’
Yukio Mishima – The Sailor Who Fell From The Grace Of The Sea
‘… just the sight of those breasts made Reginald’s penis very hard. His penis was of considerable size and now beads of sweat ran slowly down his penis, making it glisten like a strong swimmer fresh from out of the pool… What a grand, grand penis’
Herbert Garrison – In The Valley of The Penises (South Park, Episode 406)
No, I did not suddenly develop an obsession for men’s private parts, nor have I decided to read erotica. The first quote is from a English Lit book that my brother’s class has to read. The second quote is from South Park, in an episode, where amongst other things, Mr Garrison tries to write a great romance novel, only to pen down the “greatest homoerotic novel since Huckleberry Finn”.
What I find really amusing is that although the literary value of the two works is very different, they both describe one thing; sex. Although I am a little bit of a prude when it comes to sex, I believe it is something natural, but shouldn’t be done lightly. I could say that children should read books like these because it talks about completely natural things, or I could go on about how such literature pollutes the minds of innocent children, but seriously?
How do you expect to discuss passages like these in a class full of 16 year olds? I remember reading the Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, and I remember that the book did endeed contain what I would call “kinky sex”, but the passages were by no means so detailed and remained somewhat secondary to the main plot, even though these experiences formed the different characters.
Anyway, I would think that these kids don’t need more sex than they’re exposed to in the other media (hail MTV), but I mean, come on… How can my former appeaser high school, where people are not allowed to make physical contact, even ALLOW the English Department to buy such books? The school policy is unclear on that one, it seems (but no physical contact is permitted).
What exactly did I want to accomplish. Nothing much, just show you the strange paradoxes that run the world, I guess.
Peter
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