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Good sex illustrated di Tony Duvert
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Good sex illustrated (edizione 2007)

di Tony Duvert

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A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality. Why is pleasure "doubled" when it's "shared"'... Do you really have to cut pleasure in two so that it'll exist? I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when there are four, centupled when there are a hundred, right? Is it O.K. for a hundred to share? And if I get used to trying it all alone, why is it that I'll never love anyone again? Is it that good alone and that awful with others? ; from Good Sex Illustrated First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the "sex-positive" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth century western "sexual liberation" mass movements. As Bruce Benderson notes in his introduction, Good Sex Illustrated shows that, "in our sexual order, orgasm follows the patterns of any other kind of capital... 'good sex' is a voracious profit machine." But unlike Houllebecq, Duvert writes from a passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and of pleasure. Even more controversially now than when the book was first published, Duvert asserts the child's right to his or her own playful, unproductive sexuality. Bruce Benderson's translation will belatedly introduce English-speaking audiences to the most infamous gay French writer since Jean Gênet.… (altro)
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Titolo:Good sex illustrated
Autori:Tony Duvert
Info:Los Angeles, CA ; London : Semiotext(e), 2007.
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This book has a smart form, in which Duvert dismantles the moralist arguments of a French sex education text. The sex education texts' proclamations are off putting if not revolting by the standards of today (sex is primarily for procreation, masturbation is pathological, women are overly sensual creatures who are destined to be mothers, all men should be fathers). Duvert delivers sharp jabs at the hypocrisies and prejudices of the text, but takes his distaste even further and argues two points. First, that the familial order is a tool of the oppressive capitalist power structure designed to create children (labor machines) who are diligent and free from useless if not harmful distraction (pleasure). Second, Duvert argues that freeing the sexuality of minors would serve to destabilize capitalist oppression. By this, he means not only that frisky teenagers should be allowed to have sex with each other, but that children should be allowed to engage in sexual play with themselves, other children, and perhaps even adults.

This latter point is shocking, but barely emphasized. That is perhaps good for the overall credibility of the text, being that it makes valid and important arguments that are relevant even today. This lack of emphasis on such a point however calls its validity to question, though many would argue that such an argument is invalid outright in terms of morals and ethics. If the father has ownership over the child, Duvert argues, then we could see cases of familial abuse both violent and sexual as symptomatic of capitalist oppression. Duvert argues, though, that for a child to engage (or be engaged) sexually by a stranger threatens the father's role. I am more inclined to believe that it mirrors it, that it represents a vying for property and a need to dominate. I don't think sexuality between adults and chidren, especially when so many people view children as innocent, can be enacted outside the influence of that capitalist framework. Children are viewed as property not only by family, but by adults at large.

Despite this one shaky and somewhat unsettling argument, the text is well crafted and fires off a barrage of valid points and compelling arguments against the insidious dangers of the liberal "sex education" that apply to the phenomena even as it exists today in France or America or any middle class hub. In revealing sexuality, these liberal educators reveal instead a doctrine that is entrenched in sexism, classism, and moral dogma. ( )
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A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality. Why is pleasure "doubled" when it's "shared"'... Do you really have to cut pleasure in two so that it'll exist? I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when there are four, centupled when there are a hundred, right? Is it O.K. for a hundred to share? And if I get used to trying it all alone, why is it that I'll never love anyone again? Is it that good alone and that awful with others? ; from Good Sex Illustrated First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the "sex-positive" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth century western "sexual liberation" mass movements. As Bruce Benderson notes in his introduction, Good Sex Illustrated shows that, "in our sexual order, orgasm follows the patterns of any other kind of capital... 'good sex' is a voracious profit machine." But unlike Houllebecq, Duvert writes from a passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and of pleasure. Even more controversially now than when the book was first published, Duvert asserts the child's right to his or her own playful, unproductive sexuality. Bruce Benderson's translation will belatedly introduce English-speaking audiences to the most infamous gay French writer since Jean Gênet.

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