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A review by josemesquita_
Perversity Think Tank by Supervert
(currently going through it, but I feel like this can also relate to what's to come. I'll wander a lot in this review)
From what I've gathered, this has some interesting insights on human behaviour and I really like the author's tone and the way he refers to some amazing deviations from the conventional views of interpersonal interactions (may it be sexuality or a pure ego feast).
The thing is: these are amazing and interesting for their entertainment value and analysis, but obviously not desirable behaviors, even if people like to romanticize them in an anarchist manner to prove themselves to be adventurous, interesting, brave, anti-convention, you name it.
While certain acts and thoughts have different receptions according to time and social setting, people shouldn't overuse that argument.
I can't help but find some of these cases just laughably dumb, "teen" in a way and in need of therapy and study.
People can have a very jolly evening embracing some old-fashioned conventions. There is absolutely no need to subvert expectations all the time with spanking fantasies and other sadistic little thingies. Degradation is devaluation (of course) and most likely results from trauma. This is the opposite of laughable and should be seen through a prism of rejection of such behaviors, with the help of therapy and self-troubles cleansing. What's childish (absolutely no worries in using "child" while talking about this; it fits the essay's theme) is the act of one's absorption by a social state that's soaked in attention seeking and apparently the most prized award goes to whomever says "choke me" the most times or any other manifestation of stupidity.
Well, other stories in this are just fucked up, but the fact that some people are just blobs of malfunctioning meat with legs and a (unfortunately) social status isn't news to me.
Anyway, great read so far.
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"Nowadays everybody wants to be a little bit different, a touch radical, slightly perverted."
Exactly. This. The good ol' race to see who is THE outlier, under the illusion that being that way is interesting by itself. Consequently and quite paradoxically, it ends up being a pursuit for attention.
From what I've gathered, this has some interesting insights on human behaviour and I really like the author's tone and the way he refers to some amazing deviations from the conventional views of interpersonal interactions (may it be sexuality or a pure ego feast).
The thing is: these are amazing and interesting for their entertainment value and analysis, but obviously not desirable behaviors, even if people like to romanticize them in an anarchist manner to prove themselves to be adventurous, interesting, brave, anti-convention, you name it.
While certain acts and thoughts have different receptions according to time and social setting, people shouldn't overuse that argument.
I can't help but find some of these cases just laughably dumb, "teen" in a way and in need of therapy and study.
People can have a very jolly evening embracing some old-fashioned conventions. There is absolutely no need to subvert expectations all the time with spanking fantasies and other sadistic little thingies. Degradation is devaluation (of course) and most likely results from trauma. This is the opposite of laughable and should be seen through a prism of rejection of such behaviors, with the help of therapy and self-troubles cleansing. What's childish (absolutely no worries in using "child" while talking about this; it fits the essay's theme) is the act of one's absorption by a social state that's soaked in attention seeking and apparently the most prized award goes to whomever says "choke me" the most times or any other manifestation of stupidity.
Well, other stories in this are just fucked up, but the fact that some people are just blobs of malfunctioning meat with legs and a (unfortunately) social status isn't news to me.
Anyway, great read so far.
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"Nowadays everybody wants to be a little bit different, a touch radical, slightly perverted."
Exactly. This. The good ol' race to see who is THE outlier, under the illusion that being that way is interesting by itself. Consequently and quite paradoxically, it ends up being a pursuit for attention.