Wednesday, May 11, 2016
The Body's "Betrayal" - bringing it all back home
What kinds or aspects of sexuality get shunted to the margins and
delegitimised in popular discourse, thus driving them underground where
they fester? For example some victims/survivors/experiencers of incest,
rape or other forms of sexual abuse are subtly encouraged to publicly
own their pain, trauma, shock, ongoing resultant dysfunctionality and
maladaptions, but are not so subtly discouraged (via social learning,
the feedback we get from others) from publicly owning their
body's pleasure response to the incident, They are thus left to wrestle
on their own - or perhaps in therapy - with their own guilt about,
bewilderment with, and possible rage at, let us call it, the body's
betrayal. Fear driven approaches based on an imaginary future - slippery
slope arguments - lead to unnuanced approaches which do not reflect or
acknowledge complex realities. And this in turn promotes fragmented
rather than integrated beings.
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