Feb 28 2009
Clubbing Seals In A Zoo (Part Three)
This discussion about the question what separates porn from erotic art continues. Again I am stupefied by how uneducated some in the land of the “free” are. Today I woke up with a post by an American artist who assumed that there must have been censorship in the Ice Age, because all depictions of copulation were made in hidden and dark places.
I explained to him that these were cavemen. They were doing – almost everything – in dark hidden places, thus the name CAVEmen. They did not like to be eaten alive by sable tigers or to be stampeded by mammoths. Heck, suicidal artists might have even carved on trees for all I know, but the trees are no longer there.
I generously added that these drawings were not meant to be porn or erotic art. These were spiritual, religious fertility symbols.
My irritation with some of these emotional and intellectual retards who call themselves “erotic artists” is growing. They remind me of a college student from North Carolina who sent me an email in 1996, just after I started AMEA, telling me that he was surprised to see that people already had sex before the Sexual Revolution. (But hey I am no Einstein either, because I was just as surprised to learn there were colleges in North Carolina.)
I am starting to think that History Of The World by Mel Brooks was understood by (too) many as an educational movie instead of a comedy.