Dicky Bird -- word (Cockney rhyming slang); small bird. Dickey ass or donkey; shaky, sick (perhaps Cockney 'Tom and Dick'); woman's under-petticoat. Bird woman or girlfriend (slang)

Thoughts and Provocations on Sex and Culture

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

The Opposite of Sex

Sex is God's joke on human beings -- Bette Davis


From Tomi Ungerer's Erotoscope


Bette Davis's observation, is pretty much on the mark. Sex lends itself so well to observation humour because it's the antithesis of our non-sexual lives. In other words, it's full of opposites and contradictions.
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty. -- John Waters
Waters highlights the root of sexual humour: we all like to believe that thousands of years of evolution have brought us cultured and civilized lives, but when we get down between the sheets (or our partner's legs!), we're no different to whores, animals and even dung beetles.
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman. -- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is spot on. On the one hand, loving monogamous sex is an ideal to which we aspire. But on the other hand, we sometimes can't help getting more adventurous thoughts in our heads.
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time. -- Author Unknown
I'm surprised that all sex doesn't seem kinky the first time. Throughout childhood we're taught that masturbation is bad, sex before marriage is bad, sex without love is bad, sex without contraception is bad. And then a couple of surges of testosterone either makes us completely amnesic, or somehow makes bad, good.
"It is not true that sex degrades women... if it is any good." -- Alan Partridge
It was Germaine Greer who belived that if we all displayed our genitals, it would equalise us all, and went on to practice what we preach in Screw magazine. Alan Partridge's joke is not that good sex does not degrade, but that sex does degrade. It bring us all down to the animal level: Judges, royalty, your parents, you and I. Our naive children would probably disagree with us.

Now that's funny.

4 Comments:

At 12:46 PM, boneSmith said...

Right on, Dickey! You sexy beast...
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At 1:57 PM, ScLeCo said...

Funny pics!

 
At 12:34 PM, Orikinla Osinachi. said...

Nudity does not impute iniquity.
Being naked is not a sin.
As long as you don't abuse or misuse your body.

God made our body to be adored in His Holiness.
But when you turn your body into merchandise, you have lost the glory of your beauty.

 
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