It's All Homoerotic To Me
August 31st 2009 17:01
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It is said that heterosexuality is much more common than homosexuality. But to what extent can we look to this supposition with any kind of reverence? I argue that homoeroticism is just as powerful as hetero-eroticism in manipulating social relations, despite the reluctance on behalf of the heteronormative-seeking status quo to explore this area of their lives in lucid detail. I argue that striving to be lucrative to one's own sex is not without a desire to be found sexually appealing by that sex, and that we spend so much time emphasising our hetero-erotic encounters that we neglect to realise how homoeroticism shapes our lives.
To be continued, developing points like the following:
- Men and women often share their hetero-erotic experiences with members of the same sex in a way that elicits their friends, peers and acquaintances' sensual enjoyment. Through the sharing of narratives they make a private heterosexual experience into a public homoerotic one.
- Men and women both seek the approval of the same sex through their choice of clothing, cosmetics, fitness, intellectual prowess, emotional intelligence, spiritual awareness, and so forth. Though ostensibly all in the effort to secure the heterosexual gaze, the heterosexual gaze is largely informed by the homosexual one. As such heterosexuality and homosexuality are intricately interrelated, and one enhances the other.
- An example, courtesy of film director, David Cronenberg: We’re in a bizarre place with the Internet right now, where we can see snuff porn any minute of the day or night in the comfort of your own home—courtesy, often, of Muslim extremists. I’m sure they would be pretty shocked to think that I was seeing homoerotic stuff in their beheadings and so on, but I do see it, and very clearly. And it drives me crazy that they’re so self-righteous about what they’re doing, because I see it as a very complexly perverse act. The beheading I saw was like a homosexual gang rape, really. Despite the religious chanting and the beards, it was very apparent to me. [Source]
To be continued, developing points like the following:
- Men and women often share their hetero-erotic experiences with members of the same sex in a way that elicits their friends, peers and acquaintances' sensual enjoyment. Through the sharing of narratives they make a private heterosexual experience into a public homoerotic one.
- Men and women both seek the approval of the same sex through their choice of clothing, cosmetics, fitness, intellectual prowess, emotional intelligence, spiritual awareness, and so forth. Though ostensibly all in the effort to secure the heterosexual gaze, the heterosexual gaze is largely informed by the homosexual one. As such heterosexuality and homosexuality are intricately interrelated, and one enhances the other.
- An example, courtesy of film director, David Cronenberg: We’re in a bizarre place with the Internet right now, where we can see snuff porn any minute of the day or night in the comfort of your own home—courtesy, often, of Muslim extremists. I’m sure they would be pretty shocked to think that I was seeing homoerotic stuff in their beheadings and so on, but I do see it, and very clearly. And it drives me crazy that they’re so self-righteous about what they’re doing, because I see it as a very complexly perverse act. The beheading I saw was like a homosexual gang rape, really. Despite the religious chanting and the beards, it was very apparent to me. [Source]
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