HYPERSPACE
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HYPERSPACE’S SEXUAL COMPONENT: AN EXPLANATION
I have lost friends and acquaintances over HYPERSPACE because of the dirty, filthy sex it contains. (“Dirty and “filthy” are here being used facetiously.)
Only a pervert would write something like HYPERSPACE containing as it does pornography! Surely such sentiments as that in the preceding italicized passage must be an approximation of the thoughts and feelings of people who have attempted a reading of this story and stopped at the first sexual scene. Most likely the book was subsequently thrown in the garbage by such people.
Such readers as these are so antithetical in their thoughts and feelings concerning sex in literature (and perhaps sex itself) that they are oblivious to context! For in this novella of one hundred fourteen pages there are approximately seven pages containing explicit sexual description. In short, seven pages of dirty filthy sex outweighs in the minds of such people one hundred fourteen pages of unmitigated psychophysiological context; outweighs a totality of prose as exquisite as anything ever written in a novel.
Rejection of this story for such reasons are almost not worthy of a remark. But because I consider the possibility of an individual’s intelligence outweighing his or her priggishness and prudery I have concluded that it is worthy of some words.
The sexual scenes in HYPERSPACE are there for a specific reason. The story is essentially about the existential ramifications in the life of an individual who suffered post-birth trauma of the brain. The sexual aspect of these ramifications is totally unavoidable because the sexual apparatus of our species is a major component of the nervous system, it being a huge conglomeration of neurons and electrical activity. All neurotic and psychotic behavior has a sexual component because all neurotic and psychotic messages released from the brain unavoidably travel to the sexual apparatus. It must always be remembered that neurons are electrical wiring, and electricity shoots through them with lightening (electrical) speed to major nervous centers, most particularly the sexual. Not only that, but sexual output opens (ungates) the brain’s neurons, so that repressed trauma in the brain (like that produced by traumatic birth or post-birth experience) is released and erupts in volcanic fashion. Teen suicide is no coincidence. They become sexually active, suddenly begin feeling a terribleness of life, do not know why, and just want to get out of it and are all too often compelled to kill themselves! Scroll down to The Most Important Novel of the 20th and 21st Centuries and pay particular attention to the quotations of psychologist Arthur Janov and obstetrician Frederick Leboyer. Then click into 4 Comments just below the post and you will read of the psychophysiological intricacies involved in ramifications later in life (including sexual ramifications) of birth and post-birth trauma, as I respond to four queries of a skeptic. Then, if you just want a small sample of how newborns are mistreated in hospitals, go to the following link and view the short trailer:
http://hospitalbirthdebate.blogspot.com
When you watch those babies twist about and writhe while the doctors and nurses in their ignorance traumatize them, remember that their brains are storing this suffering by locking it in (gating) . . . only to be released and suffered later in life.
One might ask why there must be explicit sexual descriptions in HYPERSPACE. Might I not have just stated that “Jason is sexually intimate with Pat,” or “Jason utilizes his vivid imagination while masturbating,” and then continued the plot Regardless of the subject matter, my novels show events, more than tell a story. I am therefore extremely descriptive, wanting the reader to experience the protagonists’ experiences. In my novel about ancient Rome (unpublished), there is a description of a gladiatorial event which virtually takes the reader and places him or her in the arena’s seating to experience what happens. Descriptions of the mass butchery is as real as language can make it. Yet, when describing the orgiastic gladiatorial feast, though public copulation abounds, there is not one explicit sexual description because sexuality is not integral to the story. In HYPERSPACE sexuality is integral to the story as an unavoidable byproduct of the brain’s post-pubescent trauma release. Were I to write a novel concerning an individual contracting colon cancer, I would show all pertinent details of the person’s life, from the first discovery of something amiss, showing the protagonist suffering abdominal pain, to showing in detail the misshapen stool of a bowel movement, showing how the protagonist perceives the surrounding environment while feeling the trauma of his or her newly discovered circumstance.
As a writer, as an artist, as a person, I would love to know why certain people consider it dirty and filthy to show explicit sexuality in context of a larger theme, but do not consider it dirty and filthy to show mass murder as swords disembowel living people whose blood and intestines then spill on the arena floor; not dirty and filthy to describe an excreted stool that is the symptom of a disease? The explicit sexuality in HYPERSPACE is presented as a symptom of a disease! Why is one symptom taboo and the other symptom not taboo?
The real question is, when is our species going to grow up?
