TODAY’S WORD-OF-THE-DAY: SALACIOUS
BEING an author, I’m fully aware that to the five ancient Greek appeals (logos, pathos, ethos, keiros and numos/nomos) one must of necessity add violence and sex. Violence being a particularly loathsome subject given the extent it has been purveyed over the last quadrennium and, more recently, the particularly violent American political attempt at a nothing less than a coup d’etat. That leaves, well, sex and its attendant love, romance, tenderness, empathy, warmth, intimacy, vulnerability. Namely salacious authorship and readership.
I completely understand the social revulsion surrounding violence. What I can’t comprehend is the social revulsion I often hear surrounding sex. Non-violent sex is, as many social scientists continually try to point out, what we were made for and do best. So why the schizophrenic public revulsion but personal delight and obsession with sex? For the moment, I’ll leave that question for the social scientists and internet influencers. That should make for a lively debate.
It is my opinion that salaciousness is not an attribute of a few, but the prime motivating factor for most. We live, work, argue, help, read and die for sex, so why not let it out of the bag a moment and simply rejoice in being sexual creatures? A little delight in these dark times seems in order to me.
In my recently released novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I’ve tried to address these issues, while balancing the important role of sexuality and our specie’s obsessive interest in it, with the political, social and technological events (powered by sex if you agree with my basic premise) that inevitably affect its expression. Starting from a science-based futuring studies point-of-view, I present for my readers’ consideration the Sweet Sixteen Sexcapade, a very public coming-of-age ritual that I believe we are relentlessly approaching and need to consider rather than fear and revulse. I envision its existence as building on society’s unending interest in sex, replacing, for example, sex magazines and movies. No need when billions of youth are enacting Sweet Sixteen Sexcapades throughout NewAmerica and, well, the eventually populated universe.
But I digress. It is for you, dear reader, to decide the future BY DIRECTLY OBSERVING IT in what I consider an admittedly titillating work of particular importance, since our species has, in my opinion, been unerringly moving in the direction it has for as long as humans have existed.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
I completely understand the social revulsion surrounding violence. What I can’t comprehend is the social revulsion I often hear surrounding sex. Non-violent sex is, as many social scientists continually try to point out, what we were made for and do best. So why the schizophrenic public revulsion but personal delight and obsession with sex? For the moment, I’ll leave that question for the social scientists and internet influencers. That should make for a lively debate.
It is my opinion that salaciousness is not an attribute of a few, but the prime motivating factor for most. We live, work, argue, help, read and die for sex, so why not let it out of the bag a moment and simply rejoice in being sexual creatures? A little delight in these dark times seems in order to me.
In my recently released novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I’ve tried to address these issues, while balancing the important role of sexuality and our specie’s obsessive interest in it, with the political, social and technological events (powered by sex if you agree with my basic premise) that inevitably affect its expression. Starting from a science-based futuring studies point-of-view, I present for my readers’ consideration the Sweet Sixteen Sexcapade, a very public coming-of-age ritual that I believe we are relentlessly approaching and need to consider rather than fear and revulse. I envision its existence as building on society’s unending interest in sex, replacing, for example, sex magazines and movies. No need when billions of youth are enacting Sweet Sixteen Sexcapades throughout NewAmerica and, well, the eventually populated universe.
But I digress. It is for you, dear reader, to decide the future BY DIRECTLY OBSERVING IT in what I consider an admittedly titillating work of particular importance, since our species has, in my opinion, been unerringly moving in the direction it has for as long as humans have existed.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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