Bruce LaBruce: “Asexuality is all the rage. It’s the next big thing, the asexy new m
Bruce LaBruce: “Asexuality is all the rage. It’s the next big thing, the asexy new movement du moment, at least according to a new article about asexual hipster David Jay on The Atlantic’s website, and I have to admit I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it nicely dovetails with my own menopausal hormonal depletion (don’t worry, it will happen to you too, eventually), and after one has sucked on a few tens of thousands of cocks in one’s lifetime, asexuality sounds something like a nice, pleasant vacation. On the other hand, it also corresponds a bit too neatly with the new conservative anti-sex bandwagon, the one that has Republican talk show hosts calling women who lobby for health insurance coverage for birth control sluts and Republican presidential nominees slamming contraception for encouraging premarital sex. You only have to look as far as the Twilight movie franchise to spot the contemporary trend, with teen heartthrob Robert Pattinson, the most sexually repressed vampire of all time, promoting endless teenage abstinence with the frightening goal of eternal monogamy with Kristen Stewart. It was much more exciting back in 1980 when horny 15-year-olds Kristy McNichol and Tatum O’Neal competed at summer camp to see who would lose her virginity first. Now that’s entertainment.” More here. We think it’s more neo-puritanism than neurology. After all, look where these trends pop up and look at the cultural history that re-produces (pardon the expression), these death-cult memes. It meshes well will late capitalism’s drive to make Fordism life: humans should be productive in all activities. -Homo HOMO MAGAZINE: FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER -- source link