Innocence in Sexuality as seen through various cultures

Started by Lettow77, July 11, 2013, 06:17:23 AM

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Lettow77

 We touched upon this subject briefly in the OTT a few days ago, and it had me thinking.

Of course, Victorian England or Japan would be obvious examples, but i'd like to do a commentary on a short work I feel to be very illustrative, by the notable african-american spokesman Biggie Smalls, with concurrent contribution by Too $hort. 

Before beginning, I believe I should state this definitively proves African American culture is very much involved in notions of purity in sexuality, but considers (as cultures invariably do) men to be removed from concerns of sexual purity. The male is an actor, not an acted upon object. In the intriguing case of the African American community, however, the male is not only free from mores of modesty, but also those of basic civilization; While clearly familiar with acceptable standards, the african-american man exults in his flaunting of them, and embraces a more bestial aspect while still, compellingly, bringing the weight of social sanction upon females even as they are willfully defiled.


A line-by-line commentary, then, with Too $hort's contributions in italics and my notes in bold. :


Quote
Beeotch!
Talk about these hoes Big..


From the initial lead-in, we see a disrespectful tone to the sexual partners that are to be discussed.

I got a bitch that suck my dick til I nut
Spit it on my gut and slurp that shit back up
Ain't that a slut (HELL YEA)
she even take it in the butt
Fuck for bout a hour, now she want a golden shower

Here we see that Biggie, with his associate's agreement, condemn the actions of the women they solicit sexual activity from. It should be noted that the sexual practices are degrading in nature, ones that give women no pleasure and typically invoke objections. This will be a theme.

You didn't know that we be pissin on hoes, bitch (BEOTCH)
Luke and Biggie straight shittin on hoes, bitch (BEOTCH)
Lick your toes, bitch? (BEOTCH) Fuck no, you must be crazy
Squirt in your face and then I'm Swayze (bitch)
Sexual deviancy as a way of polluting the woman and indulging one's own lusts is celebrated, and indeed the main crux of Biggie's statements. However, the idea of any sort of sexual activity, however minor, that pleasures the woman exclusively is beyond the pale, and suggestions of it earn a rebuke and further insults, confirming the inappropriate nature of female sexuality.

Recognize G, straight up, I can't knock ya
After Big Poppa, fuck ALL of Junior M.A.F.I.A.
The whole clique, dick sucked, ass licked
Leave your number by the phone, bring yo' ass on home
Here, as the Alpha Male Biggie is providing for his pack-mates, which serves the dual function of bolstering his authority as a leader and also degrading the woman, robbing her sexual services of any connotation of intimacy and making her a communal object.

I roam in Lexuses and Benzes, the fly way
With the flyest bitch gettin head on the highway (ridin)
My way deep throat on Luke's boat
When the moon rises, I'm cumin in her eyes-es (do it)
Just the way players play
Leave it up to me, I get fucked all day (yeah)
Sucked all day, smokin blunts, countin cheese
Fucking bitches til they assholes bleed
The fact that Biggie is encouraged by his companion to deliberately cause retinal irritation in his sexual partner, as well as the emphasis placed on doing bloody injury to her, are significant. Neither confers sexual pleasure for Biggie- it is to defile and shame his partner, reinforcing his own status and confirming her debasement.

Biggie bag bitches from barbecues to barmitzvah's
The dick don't fit, use your lips cause.. (use em)
I'm feelin kinda itchy for a quickie
Don't take off your coat, all you got to do is lick me
Me eat you, I beat you, then greet you to the door bitch
Cause I don't love you no more
Again, the idea of sexually pleasuring a female is rejected out of hand. References to outright physical abuse enter at this stage.

Which one of these hoes in the lobby wanna slob me
You know me, I like my dick Brown like Bobby
Jim Duke shoot, then the bitch get the boot
unless she lick ass and blow dicks like flutes
The anonymity of "..these hoes in the lobby" is telling; their identity does not matter, beyond their sexual characteristics and willingness to fellate Mr.Smalls.

I like em cute, round tits and fat asses
Educated, so I can bust off on they glasses
I wanna cum on your tongue and gums, all night
The bitch drink nuts by the pint

Drink it bitch!
All of these hoes do that shit

Female education is mocked here as something that has no place in the primal social order constructed by the african-american male. Continuing a trend, a woman's deliberately swallowing semen is disparaged and insulted by the same parties who demand it.

It's after midnight, it's time to come up
Fuckin with some sluts tryin to bust a nut
I ain't seen this many hoes in a long time
I wanna make em all mine (get down hoe)
The status of the women as mere property and tools of sexual pleasure is made explicit here, as well as a disdainful comparison to a pet, specifically a dog.


but it's gettin kinda late, and I cain't wait
Bitch fuck a first date
I pulled out my dick, she called me rude..
.. but then she ate it like food (tramp)
The pretense of social niceties is dispensed here; Too $hort exults in his indecent behavior while insulting the woman for acceding to it.

Then she noticed the limp and the whip
Recognize game, you've been pimped by a pimp
Throw all that trick shit, out the window
You come up short tryin to doubt the pimp hoe
Beyond degrading women, crucial themes are the speaker's virility, as well as his ostentatious shows of wealth seen earlier.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Caliga

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The Larch

Victorian Britain was chock full of pervs. The most bizarre porn always comes from the places that are more repressed.

Eddie Teach

I dunno man, doesn't seem like they even recognize the existence of "pure" women who won't perform for them, much less rating them above the "hoes" who do.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

fhdz

Quote from: The Larch on July 11, 2013, 07:18:33 AM
Victorian Britain was chock full of pervs. The most bizarre porn always comes from the places that are more repressed.

Is Arab porn really crazy? Honest question. Haven't ever seen any.
and the horse you rode in on

Jacob


Siege

Quote from: fhdz on July 11, 2013, 01:20:15 PM
Quote from: The Larch on July 11, 2013, 07:18:33 AM
Victorian Britain was chock full of pervs. The most bizarre porn always comes from the places that are more repressed.

Is Arab porn really crazy? Honest question. Haven't ever seen any.

Arab porn?
Sounds like a good alternative to suicide for arabs.


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CountDeMoney

Lettow, your bunghole's maw is more hungrily gaping than the Sarlacc Pit. 
Just go home and let your roommate drop his Boba Fett it already, to be slowly digested for a thousand years.

Razgovory

I'm beginning to think that Lettow might be more disturbed then I am.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

katmai

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

HVC

Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 11, 2013, 06:16:48 PM
Lettow, your bunghole's maw is more hungrily gaping than the Sarlacc Pit. 
Just go home and let your roommate drop his Boba Fett it already, to be slowly digested for a thousand years.
way to outcarzy the crazy guy
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Lettow77

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 11, 2013, 10:58:09 AM
I dunno man, doesn't seem like they even recognize the existence of "pure" women who won't perform for them, much less rating them above the "hoes" who do.

You have something here in that they don't place any value on them; as a community that rejects the architecture upon which most civilization stands, they have no use for innocence, although by their emphasis on pollution, defiling and objectification they affirm its existence. They place value not in innocence, but in the potency of their own actions for demolishing it- they insult women as they pile greater indignities upon them, etc etc.

Besides common aspersions against my person, I don't think there is much wrong with this analysis. :)
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

derspiess

Lettuce raises a couple interesting points.

In his observations, not his conclusions so much.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

HVC

Quote from: derspiess on July 11, 2013, 06:53:02 PM
Lettuce raises a couple interesting points
if you have this reaction to anything Lettow writes you really should reconsider your world view.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.