Health

Slavoj Žižek: Human sexuality is innately perverse

   Slavoj Žižek
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       state of sex.”
       I agree, but I would add the lesson of psychoanalysis: something is
       constitutively rotten in the state of sex, human sexuality is in
       itself perverted, exposed to sadomasochist reversals and,
       specifically, to the mixture of reality and fantasy. Even when I am
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       So, back to Wiseman, who concludes her comment: “By attempting to
       understand the shadowed new landscapes of porn, we may come closer
       to a healthy relationship with our own sexuality.” But what if
       sexuality is in itself not quite healthy, what if the shadowy
       aspects of porn do not just disturb from outside healthy sexuality
       but are rendered possible by its unhealthy aspect?
       In December 2916, upon learning of the sudden death of Carrie
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       same, of course) sexually attractive.
       To prohibit talking about this, noticing it, means suspending not
       just “objectivisation” but sexuality as such. The sad trauma of
       those who are “ugly” and find it difficult to get attractive sexual
       partners is thus not only not resolved but just ignored and in this