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Welcome to my blog in English. It is a literary experiment inspired by Pirandello's "Novelle per un anno". It is just a series of questions on twelve topics or so.

Monday, July 21, 2008

4. Why my first question should be on sex ?

If not the most obvious, sex is the most natural and the most universal form of expression animals and plants have invented to connect and interact with the other half of their species. And the marvellous infinity of stratagems to attract the opposite sex is somewhat a rest of paradise on earth. Think of birds : how many colourful feathers they desplay, what array of dances they perform, how delicate they are in seducing their partner... and us, so blatantly dull, so boring, complicated and vicious... If humans still have sex, it is a miracle. It is the result of an effort of willingness boosted by the desire to reproduce one’s beloved person. The fact that we need to be two in order to have a posterity is a mere accident, and indeed many of us were born by accident. Pleasure is an accident too, as now consumerism has replaced the fuss of expressing one’s feeling by limitating sex to a sequence of mechanical acts you could very well perform in a gym or a stage in the presence of a public that has already seen it all and that expects to be surprised at every move you make, every breath you take – remember the song – I’ll be watching you. People who watch sex on TV get damn bored to the extent that - contrary to what most trend-setters think – they are not excited any longer by the post midnight pornographic blurb and think it twice before having sex after such a movie. This is nothing else than sex pollution. Personally I am ecosexy since I never watch TV. I am quite naive and full of fantasy. That is why I will forever be spinsterly yours.

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