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In reply to the discussion: Does Anybody Else Have A Bad Taste In Their Mouths, Over Objections To Sexually Explicit Books ??? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)most of it is a lot of projection over rape and forced sex.
How dare a book or movie imply this sort of sexual pressure is not horrifically wrong? Acceptable, even?
Well, surprise surprise-- books and plays have been exploring crimes from all angles for thousands of years. Now movies are doing it.
Just what was Dostoevsky's point in not "properly" punishing Raskolnikov, and seeming to sympathize with his acts? I brought up "Salo' " in another thread and hardly anyone caught the point. Or said so. Should I bring up "The Story of O"?
The outrage I see in these threads is not over a bad book, or even so much the specific subject matter, but unresolved rage over sex. I see it all the time in this place dressed up in all sorts of almost acceptable clothing.
Unrepentant murderers, swindlers, armed robbers, hitmen... None of them generate the rage and 400 post threads that the rape and sex threads do.
in the end, it's really the sex that drives some over the edge and just the sex. It's time to just sit back and admit it. some of us are no better than the fundies.