Human Preoccupation of Sex and Power

Human Preoccupation with Sex and Power

I don’t know about you, but I have found recent Fall from Grace of several American men of Big Power and Colossal Wealth a tad sad and pathetic. For all of their intelligence, they couldn’t escape the snare of the flesh. Don’t take me wrong. I’m not having one of those vicarious Schadenfreude thrills watching these men losing their dignity in a big and public way. I suppose they all thought they could get away with their indulgences even if they violated the laws and morality in doing so. Talk about Hubris! Excess is always bad.

I have a feeling that these men lack imagination and creativity. They cannot fantasize. They must satisfy their deep, dark desires by acting on them They couldn’t be like Vladimir Nabokov who in the infamous and famous novel Lolitaboldly skated on thin ice by penning an artistic narrative of a debauched though loquacious middled-aged man falling for a pre-pubescent 12-year-old girl. The novel is considered by literary critics one of the best ever written. It made the author rich and famous and enabled him to retire from teaching literature. The author was Russian but his English was beyond wonderful: rich, marvelous, intricate, and beautiful. And there was not a single dirty word in the book. The novel was about Love, though sick, not Sex.

Sex, to these fallen American men, involves not mere Lust and probably has to do with Power. It has been widely known that Rape has very little to do with Lust but a lot with Power. That is sad. Sex, to Human, should be intricately and intrinsically linked with Love for it to be viewed as beautiful and to set Human apart from lower forms of Life. I may be old-fashioned and that is how I always view Sex. 

A person’s attitude about Sex says a great deal about his dark self. The other day, a dirty old man of 85 years old complimented me for always being proper with women. Stunned, I asked him how the hell that he knew that about me. He smiled and said that he watched me. He added that he was different. He enjoyed talking dirty with women, he disclosed. He then narrated how he and a short Latina woman endowed with gigantic butt and bust whom I happened to know (not biblically), loved exchanging dirty double entendres. He then dropped a bombshell that she once even groped him albeit quickly and not in plain public view, just to test his reactions. I didn’t say anything. I was just listening spell-bound to his story-telling. But I had to admit that the man was healthy and virile and didn’t look his age at all. He walked briskly and had a very lively mind. A strong sex drive is a sign of robust health. The man also had money. He just sold all his real estate holdings and signed off on a year-round cruise in perpetuity so he could eat and drink well and hit on lonely, wealthy widows.

Wissai

July 12, 2019