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Jim Swill, ON ANARCHO SEXUALITY...
It may be a personal stigma, but sexuality is one of the most crucial elements to preserving a healthy mind state, ESPECIALLY in the world of today. More often than not I find myself faced with a very common dilemma over the sacredness and / or importance of sex with members of counter-cultural alliances. Over the years of stumbling through numerous anarcho-based zines and chapbooks, there is a common approach to sex that I cannot relate to on any level.
In “punk” culture, monogamy is discarded fairly often, as well as any other idea considered an archaic family value. Within such chapbooks, sexuality is discussed as almost completely animal pleasure. Though it makes sure to use buzz words such as “care” and “affection”, and then scare you off of your own mind track with words like “rape”, the common approach is sex doesn’t matter who it’s with, as long as you’re comfortable. As if we live in some sort of hamster cage, and asking someone to have sex with you is as easy as saying "pass the salt". This is a prime example of the phrase “throwing the baby out with the bath water”. By which I am inferring in counter-culture communities we often discard some elements of society for the sake of discarding social structure; for the sake of rebellion when it’s not necessary and personally detrimental. We are social creatures, we are designed to desire mates, not just orgies and rapid fire genital-smashing. It’s thrown off as if sex is simply an animalistic function necessary for release, but it is not based completely on the act of thrust / grind / orgasm, it’s a need for personal connection with another human being on an intimate level. In fact it appears to me when we distance ourselves from intimacy to the level of promiscuous sex partners for the sake of sex, we are falling more in line with the constrains of mass media and the “porno anti-reality”.
We live in a time where people are isolated to neurotic frenzy. If you even so much as ride the bus you’ll find yourself faced with rows of passengers staring into glowing screens. This is not a time to dismiss intimacy and title it an extension of a free love movement. Sexuality is one of our only opportunities in this society to have a sense of open connection that is deeper than a layer of touching flesh. It is in no way more “anarchist” and more “punk” to rattle through a gauntlet of bodies and mediocre orgasms than to pour yourself into another human being and experience an act that can be similar to a trance. Sex is crucial to our stability as mentally healthy people, but sex is also not an element of life to be taken for granted just because partners and “monogamy” are not cool to punk media. Maybe I’m just a different kind of person, but zine after zine telling me I should just fuck whoever is cool with it makes me pretty depressed. I know that I am an extremely sexual person, I desire sex to a degree that makes me quiver with anticipation, but I also know how much better sex is with someone who is REALLY worth it. We’ve all had our one night encounters of bland feel ups and fast motion intercourse. This is not some attribute I’d like to permanently attach to my approach to sexuality; in fact sex along those lines makes me feel like dry heaving. There’s nothing worse to me sexually than dismissing the most important part which is the fucking passion! By degrading our sexuality, we’re erasing a crucial part of human connection! Maybe I’m pickier than some, but when it becomes a chore to get a person to really be intimate and honestly open up parts of themselves they keep reserved in society, or just simply pay attention to you, not your genitals, you know there’s something wrong with the counter-cultural system of things. So keep sex as a major priority in your life, but don’t detach yourself from it.
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words bucking at me in such a way that stamps out every tear welled up in my body
(to relate to) wrenched out a bath of tears until dry (to know the words another may use)
all I say is an advertisement for a secret or alien pain - to relate to a vague deja vu
but still alien and ultimately desolate (but alien, unknown, and truthfully alone after all that)
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