Monday, October 5, 2009

Fucking Ugly

"No one looks good while they're cumming."
After watching countless hours of porn, The Chemical Buddha noticed that people made the strangest faces when they were supposedly enjoying themselves the most. First, he thought this pointed to how closely related pleasure and pain were. Second, he assumed that he was the exception to the 'ugly orgasm face'. In fact, he was so sure, he videotaped himself masturbating to see what his face looked like. (Just so you know, few people wanted to have sex with TCB, let alone be filmed doing it.) Since we can find no recorded evidence of his 'alone time' we assume he too was a victim of 'ugly orgasm face'.
What things do you say you'd be 'happy' to do when you're really not?
How often do you do stuff you don't want to do?
How often do you actually do the stuff that you enjoy doing?

1 comment:

Jill Szoo said...

I will not argue the connection between pleasure and pain. In fact, I will support it with an example I have noted in my cat. There is a spot on her back, near the top of her tail, that causes her to stop everything she's doing, close her eyes, and stick her tongue in and out repeatedly with each stroke of a human being's hand. It makes me laugh every time I see it happening but I often feel as though I am laughing AT her, rather than WITH her because the behavior this spot causes looks to be uncontrollable, uncomfortable, and definitely somehow erotic. All of that being said, I don't support erotic moments with cats . . . unless you are repeatedly rubbing their g-spots, in which case, throw a party and invite your friends over for a good laugh.

As far as people's faces contorting into something deemed ugly . . . I disagree with that. Do our faces stretch and breath in ways that they do not normally stretch and breath? Sure. In fact, it is the very rarity of the facial expressions made during orgasm that make them so beautiful. Consider this: as the body tenses and then releases it travels a journey, much like the journey taken between lovers themselves. There are ups and downs, tensions and releases, there are seasons of approach and avoidance--this is where life happens! In the extremes and in the times full of yawns and boredom. So, if you are going to look at a lover's face on a first date, full- well knowing his face has been newly shaved or her face has been somehow tended to with make-up, you are going to see that person's best attempt at constructing an image. A mark. Fast forward to as much time as it might take you to find yourself at the height of a sexual act and you can be assured that you are seeing that person's face as it is. Real. Untouched. In a moment of connection that has no pretense added to it. Raw.

Unless, of course, someone is faking an orgasm, in which case you aren't ever going to see the "real" her. Women who fake orgasms during sex never find time in life to simple "be."

And you can't really look to porn to find the true meaning or even physiology behind the o-face. You CAN, however, look to porn to find the most intense versions of the pleasure/pain connection but, even then, no one is being raw. They are all wearing thicker masks in a porn than you even see in real life because the subjects themselves have studied what the men and women want who are watching. For example, if I am going to "act" in a porn (disclaimer: I am NOT) I have to know that the men who are watching WANT to see my face look whipped and in pain, especially if there is any kind of s&m being attempted. The cause and the effect are already pre-decided. So, if you watch porn faces you will simply be watching actors who need a paycheck.

Anyway. I have never read your blog before today and my favorite part of your entries are the questions with which you follow your stories and advice. Despite myself, and despite my own lack of experience with drugs of any kind, I am going to read on.

Next time you are having an orgasm, ask your lover to hold a mirror up to your face. If you laugh, you are normal. But if you try to hold some fake, hideous version of your own facial expression you're thinking too hard.

Just live life and enjoy those moments when you find yourself not acting for anyone MOST. And when you find yourself in a moment like that, look around you. Whoever is there is a person with whom you share a transcendent connection . . . like me and my cat ;)