{"id":38754,"date":"2011-05-17T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38754"},"modified":"2011-05-17T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:07:55","slug":"making-drama-scorpio-moon-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/making-drama-scorpio-moon-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Drama — Scorpio Moon Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been quite the Scorpio Full Moon, hasn’t it? We are in sex scandal du jour mode at the moment. However: is yesterday’s revelation (all over the news today) that Arnie fathered a kid with a household staff member really such a shock?<\/p>\n

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Photo of actual plums from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Eric Franics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Doesn’t everyone want to fuck a movie star? I mean, maybe not Arnie, but wouldn’t you? <\/p>\n

That, and I’m wondering how it’s news that people have sex, and that sex sometimes leads to pregnancy. I’m guessing that all the people who currently work as news reporters were subjected to abstinence-only sex ‘education’ indoctrination in school and have no clue about the birds and the bees. In case you didn’t hear it on CNN, sex is natural. Marriage is another story. <\/p>\n

This would not be a story were it not for this concept of marriage as the magic fidelity-maker — one ring to rule them all. I’m not against marriage, per se — I just have some issues regarding what people believe about it. It is not magic. It does not change human nature. It’s barely part of human nature, though sometimes it may be. We have no way to tell, personally, because we cannot relive our lives without having the concept cracked over our heads 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

If we set aside the huge surprise associated with sex and biology, this would not be a story if not for the marriage-related scandal. It would not be a story had Arnie not been governator.<\/p>\n

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Then we have Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the trillion-dollar International Monetary Fund, who is sitting in Riker’s Island after being accused of orally raping a maid in the $3,000 a night hotel suite he was staying in, trying to tear off her clothes, then boarding an Air France flight to run his presidential campaign back home.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I wrote to a friend: “The IMF, unlawful imprisonment, stalking the working class and oral rape. How apropos.” Jon Stewart last night pointed out that the accuser is an African immigrant. He said that Strauss-Kahn was “posing for his own political cartoon.” Read a little about the IMF and you’ll get the picture. What is not being said is that anyone who does this kind of thing — not merely this guy being accused of it — has some serious emotional problems that our society is not equipped to deal with.<\/p>\n

Here is the thing we don’t really notice, though: scandal is about repression. There’s a book I love, called Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society<\/em>. It’s by a guy named Wayland Young. I don’t have it with me at the moment, so I cannot quote the passage exactly, but the idea is this. He describes sexual repression as having four manifestations: accident, absence, suicide and scandal.<\/p>\n

I know, this is not intuitive. Who thinks of suicide as being about sexual repression? We’re so accustomed to thinking that the priest (or your mother) telling you that sex is bad is sexual repression. Wayland has a lot to say about religion — the book is about religion, in fact — but in this particular section he steps outside of that framework and looks directly at the mechanisms of repression and those are the four that he lists. I will leave you to ponder the first three; it does not take long to figure out how they work, or to see their impact on the community around us.<\/p>\n

Scandal, though, may be the most obvious of the four. It sends a message that you will get caught, and you will be publicly shamed<\/em>. It’s not about them. It’s about us. That message goes a long way toward adding lard to the vegan salad dressing. Sex, in an environment of potential scandal, is infused with a temporary thrill and then, in the long run (and there is always a long run) with the constant expectation of being held up to ridicule in such an intimate way. This kind of impression is not value neutral. In fact, it’s about as charged up with negativity as you can get. The entire environment is influenced. There is nobody vaguely sensitive who does not identify with the shame these men are being subjected to — as well as the woman allegedly attacked by the IMF guy, and Arnie’s wife and family and former mistress. In the process of publicizing these scandals, everyone is shamed.<\/p>\n

And who, exactly, considers the alternative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been quite the Scorpio Full Moon, hasn’t it? We are in sex scandal du jour mode at the moment. However: is yesterday’s revelation (all over the news today) that Arnie fathered a kid with a household staff member really such a shock? Doesn’t everyone want to fuck a movie star? I mean, maybe not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}