Two bits from The Sunday Times.
1-By AA Gill.TV critic.Relating to The Chatterley Affair.A programme about the trial of Penguin Books in which two jurors have an affair.
Quote:The couple decided to do everything that happens in the book ?- not setting gin traps and visiting disabled miners, of course, just the dirty bits. This seemed to prove that the prosecution was right: mucky writing depraved the reader. But the lovers were flashed forward into later life, to point out that, actually, the affair was the best thing that had happened to them, and that the moral, or perhaps the immoral, was that sex is always better than no sex, and good illicit sex trumps dull religiously sanctioned sex. The important thing is freedom of choice. Whether choices are good or bad is beside the point.
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Quote:Film: Man, I feel like a woman
Felicity Huffman crosses the gender divide with conviction in Transamerica. By Cosmo Landesman
It's curious how people society once considered freaks ?- transsexuals, drug addicts, perverts of every persuasion ?- are shown in contemporary films as being perfectly normal. These days, it's the normal, especially the normal moms and dads of suburban American suburbs, who are usually portrayed as freaks.
Could these be anything to do with the attraction to religion in some areas and in some segments of society and its vociferous rejection in other areas and segments?
If moms and dads in American suburbs can go from normal to freaks in 40 years won't they be seen as perverts before too long if religion is got rid of as evolutionary logic demands.
I can make a scientific case that monogamy is a perversion but I'm not going to because I don't agree that "whether the choices are good or bad is beside the point." The choice between good or bad is the only point as far as I'm concerned.
A couple of Dylan quotes to finish-
1-"The truth is obscure,too profound and too pure,
To live it you have to explode."
(Journey Through Dark Heat aka Where Are You Tonight.)
2-"There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."
(Gates of Eden)