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PORN, THE MALE PSYCHE, AND OTHER KINKY STUFF
 
 
 
 
 




Adrenaline

 



It is a state of anxietyreaction, in which the organism reacts to aperceived danger - an injection of pure stress, whichmobilizes all the defenses and the humanswitches over to 'danger mode', with heart beats, breathing and other body functions increasing to intense levels... This condition blocks out experiences/knowledge like 'past', 'future', 'right', 'wrong', the abstract layers of the personality are no longer present, the Self, the Superego disappears to a large extent.


Only 'here and now' exists - but in a way diametricallyopposite to the 'here and now'of the meditatingEastern monk. For the latter, onlythe moment exists, as a limitless, horizontless eternity, perceived by a calm, neutrallyobserving Self which has expanded or is in process of expanding gradually and completely, so that it has merged with all it's previouslysplintered parts29, and even the world assuch, producing the 'nothingis everything' paradox, while anoutsider wouldperceive a very slowly functioningand relaxed body.


For the neurotic urban patriarchal human immersed in a quasitherapeuticall adrenaline Karl Abraham, 'On Character and Libido Development' pp 2829, Norton Library 1966. See'Commentary'(1929) byC. G. Jung on the 'Secret of the Golden Flower' - 'TheSecret of the Golden Flower. a Chinese book of life', A Harvest Book 1966. trip, the world radicallyshrinks, most everyday parts of the structure of the Self evaporate, and the bodyis workingat full capacity as if fighting for its existence anenemy which taxes every resource to its limit, the price of experiencing "The annihilationof the individual self and the attempt toovercome thereby the unbearable feeling of powerlessness" 30 From the point of view of achieving a sense of gratification through adrenaline induced escapeof Self, the various 'kinky', 'porn style' sexual practices do perform a functioninspite of being incapable ofbringing the imaginary relief at their logical end.


Neither choking someone or being choked can be brought to their logical limits - there isa point when the choking must stop. Likewise the size of the artificial penises inserted, a reenactment basedonearliest childhood erotic anxieties of huge penetrating bodies, is necessarily limited - as the orifice in questionadjusts to each new size of the artificial penis a bigger size is needed, until the size is toobig to penetrate without causing grave damage - again the imaginary end point of an enormous penis finally bringing relief is unattainable.


But although the end relief in such practices is a) imaginaryand the conditions for it are b) unattainable, the very act produces a state of arousal which for some time at least, does bring temporary relief. Sometimes these adrenaline shocks are the only momentswhen some human can actually really feel anything - the organism's perceptions have been deadened byyears and decades of refusing to recognize the existence of certain stimulus, includingoceansof anxiety and pain. Every dayin the citygenerates situations in which the danger levels shoot up - from crossing a busystreet, topassinga suspicious group of men, to being in anelevator orbus with no personal control overone's life - but the human is long trained topretend that anxiety situations in fact do not exist and stores terror through and because of not admitting that causes for alarm are really there.


Life is also full of emotional pain, and likewise the human learns from childhood to denyits existence and deadens its senses to it. So, for a human with sensitivity which has been kept in a coma dueto unconscious attempts to adjust and survive inthe situations in which it was raised, sometimes the only way to 'experience' feelings is though adrenaline rituals (also the various sexshopointments which 'heighten sensitivity'). Although biologically pleasure is mirrored by relaxation of an organism - and expanded unrestricted vegetative functions, andunpleasure -bytension, restrictionof the vegetative functions, inour civilization, due to the pandemic impossibility of experiencing relaxationwithblocked and splintered organisms, today the experience of intense 'arousal' is seen as pleasure.




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