Tallulah Bankhead, notorious for her in your face attitude and frankness, was rumored to be a notorious lesbian and a lush. But most of all, she was best known for having a potty mouth. She used profanities with the ease of a sailor. I have often said that profanities are the salt and pepper in an otherwise bland stew we call the English language.
Her father was an Alabama senator and there is even a tunnel that bears his name just outside of Mobile. Tallulah entertained the rich and famous at her father’s posh place in Washington DC and her dinner parties were fabulous. These parties were frequented by the likes of the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, the Kennedys and to those who were really assholes, she always managed to embarrass her guests and make them feel like hypocrites. Good for her!
In any case, she was way ahead of her time in the sexuality department. She always used double entendre and her demeanor was extremely seductive.
After the silent movie stars like Clara Bow and Mary Pickford, Mae was the quintessential vamp. “I feel like a million tonight boys, but I’ll take you one at a time”, “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you glad to see me” were some of her famous utterances
Mae West, was also a legion and it was rumored that the woman had uterine fire. She was so sexual that it is alleged that one time she had the whole UCLA football team for a party at her house and took them one by one upstairs and gave each one blow jobs.
In any case, she was way ahead of her time in the sexuality department. She always used double entendre and her demeanor was extremely seductive.
After the silent movie stars like Clara Bow and Mary Pickford, Mae was the quintessential vamp. “I feel like a million tonight boys, but I’ll take you one at a time”, “Is that a gun in your pocket or are you glad to see me” were some of her famous utterances
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Abstinence and Celibacy
What a crock it is! Lets get real about this. The need in most human beings to engage in some sort of sexual activity that will culminate in a release or an orgasm is as basic as taking a dump or pissing.
Not speaking of those human beings of the female persuasion, that is for another chapter, the male of the species has a certain level of hormones in his body that triggers the desires and the drive to have sexual relations. It is inevitable, it is a reality. When stupidity and superstition take over, in their attempt to control the masses, what ensues is repression.
We know what happens when repression takes place. The result is often the opposite of that which was intended by the oppressor. When the Catholic Church forces its priests to adhere to a life without sex they are only making the problem worse.
The inability to recognize the human condition is disastrous. If you deny a person his or her sexual expression, you will have a very unhappy and unfulfilled human being. This is why I don’t buy for a moment those who claim that bringing Jesus into your life will cure your homosexual desires. You may be able to condition a person to reject it, to become hostile to anything having to do with sex. But deep within them, in the very fibers of their beings it is still there and these are very unfulfilled, unhappy people.
We can take this a bit further. Whether there is love involved and the sex is an expression of the love between two people or it is just the need to fulfill a phisiological function, sex is as necessary as taking a dump. Having said that, this concept of monogamy can also be misunderstood and even be unrealistic. It is true that in some species of animals the pairing happens and these two individuals remain committed for the duration of their lives. But in humans, it could be quite different. There are many factors beyond their control and what appears to be “a match made in heaven” could turn ugly very fast. Then there are also the realities of modern life. People get job transfers, they serve in the military, they become distanced from those whom they had chosen a few years before to share a life “till death do us part”.
We are too quick to judge those who do not maintain firm to those bows, and we fail to take into consideration the mitigating circumstances that lead to infidelity. In my case, almost all the partners I have ever had succumbed to the call of the flesh and went to some other person that offered them something I could not. Rarely have I been the cause of the rupture of the relationship. And the few times that it has happened it was because the “call of the flesh” was more intense than my common sense.
Swans often pair off for life. But there is evidence that swans of the same sex also pair off.
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If you believe in fairies, let’s hear it for Tinkerbell!
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Ahhh, Mae West. Love!
ReplyDeleteSex is an interesting thing. I have these fantasies that I kind of play out in my drawings of captives and attempts at writing. Prostitutes are absolutely intoxicating, although I can't quite put my finger on what they represent sexually that I'm repressing in myself. And that's the thing, I really do repress myself; for all sorts of crazy reasons...hmmm, rambling now...