"They must be banned on grounds of disturbing the peace. Like a guy walking around with his cock out. It's just not done in polite society." - pezer
"Good comparison. The problem with it is indeed the obscenity." - fixed cross
those who rock out with their cock out (of which i am one) aren't seeing what you are. there is no 'peaceful' society of 'polite' people, the disruption of such which would be called 'obscene'.
so typically forms of deviant behavior involving sexual perversion and/or a propensity for violence are explained away by the behavioral sciences as the result of physical differences in brain physiology. of course there are also elements of environmental conditioning that are taken into consideration along with these differences... so that you have a two combinations available for explanations:
1. person is genetically predisposed to be this way
2. person is genetically predisposed, and is also conditioned by various environmental catalysts, to be this way
in both explanations there is the hidden premise, or supposition, that the resultant deviant behavior is caused by a deficit in 'ordinary' functioning... which is to say that the serial killer, for instance, has malfunctioning mirror neurons, or a lower frequency of theta waves, or malfunctioning communication between the amygdala and frontal cortex, or lower levels of specific neurotransmitters. the environmental circumstances are also described as being abnormal... came from a violent household, was ridiculed in school, had access to hard drugs, etc.
now all of this is true and there is statistical research to support it, but it cannot account for every and all instances of deviant behavior. in fact, i can explain how some deviant behavior and/or sexual 'perversion' is not the result of a deficit of such terms, but rather as a result of, ironically, a higher level of functioning... the consequence not of 'malfunctioning' physiology, but 'over functioning' physiology... such that the behavior is a result of perfectly 'rational' reasoning, as opposed to the theory that it only follows from irrational reasoning... the result of these malfunctioning regions in the brain.
the parafilia i'll use here will be exhibitionism; deriving sexual gratification from exposing one's genitals and/or performing sexual acts while being watched by others.
the development of this parafilia went hand in hand with the development of what social scientists call the anti social personality disorder, but what they are unable to do is imagine that, perhaps, it is the ordinary and normal patterns of social behavior that are, in fact, the problem. their initial premise proceeds from a consensus fallacy; that what most people do is what is the right thing to do... and from this assumption they distinguish what they consider 'normal' from 'abnormal'.
in my own case, there is a long line of logic and rationale that led me to developing the exhibitionist paraphilia. in the shortest words possible (because i don't want to turn this into an essay which won't be understood and result in a glorious waste of my time), i was basically unable to play the social 'games' that so often define the characteristics of the process of human courtship. bundy was also one such person, admitting that he didn't understand how it was done... meaning (another beautiful irony) that he was too honest to be able to play the necessary 'games' required to finally result in the intended goal; sexual gratification. these games involve a great degree of deception, scheming, ulterior motivation, and the like. an example might be, a guy spends three hours in a bar courting a woman... pretending to be interested in anything more about her than how to get her in bad... and the girl, in turn, suspecting this, willingly plays along.
there are some who could play this game, but it doesn't come naturally to them because they are cognizant of the underlying nature of it, and being a higher, more honest type, have difficulty 'playing' such a game.
here there is a complete reversal of what is presumed by social scientists to be an instance 'healthy' social interaction. the few antisocial 'sociopaths' who develop paraphilias as a way to express a frustrated and repressed libido that results from the disadvantage they experience from being unable to reduce themselves down to the level of playing such games of deception, achieve the same desired sexual gratification, without having to subject themselves to this level of profanity and obscenity inherent in typical human interaction.
lol. i'm reminded of what nietzsche once said... something along the lines of madness is rare in individuals, but in the masses it is the rule, or something like that. a very apropriate point to be used here. are the sexual deviants really the 'unhealthy' ones?
my claim is that people who do not become sexual deviants in a society and age like this one, are the one's with the real problem. a lower type of human being that is either not fully cognizant of the subtle circumstances that define their socio-sexual interaction with others, or, they are aware of them and willingly choose to engage in it, demonstrating the essence of their character.
now there is a next stage in this digression (i'd rather call it an ascension... since that's what it really is). it comes in the form of a conflict between the sexual drive and the object of contempt which the sociopath cannot free himself from wanting. he is torn between his disgust for what he consideres a lower life form (that inconsequential female over at the bar waiting to play the game with some inconsequential male) and his desire to fuck her. he doesn't want to want to fuck her... but he cannot not want to. part of him is still human and he experiences the same drives as anyone else. what then happens, gradually, is the object of desire is replaced by a new object; the desire itself becomes the object, while the original object, the woman, becomes merely a means to acquire that 'desiring'. depending on the type of sociopath/sexual deviant, the woman is used in whatever way is necessary to accomplish the sexual gratification. in my case, as a narcissistic exhibitionist, i experienced sexual arousal by being seen... and i didn't have to play any games or tell any lies to get that... in another supreme ironic sense... i was actually demonstrating more respect for the 'victim' than that inconsequential male who's fixing his hair and gettig ready to slide over to her at the bar and tell her some lame joke to put the game in motion.
now in either case, the woman is being objectified... meaning she is only a means to the end of some kind of gratification. the sexual deviant is simply the person who objectifies in a purer form, and doesn't add to that objectification the layers of deceit, manipulation, scheming, and provocation that 'normal' males incorportate into their 'mating rituals'.
so you see, in my eyes, it is all of you 'normal' ones who are obscene, but again an understanding of this would be beyond most of you. as the saying goes, a sick person cannot know he is sick.
in any event i have spent a great deal of time researching sociopathology and sexual deviance, and i always find the same conclusion; it is the individual who is what he is because of some deficit. in truth, some may be like they are because of a longer line of logic, of rationale, by which, in fact, greater functionality is occuring in the brain rather than less. this rare type of sociopath is by comparison something superhuman... while the 'normal' human being, the 'well adjusted' type, is the lower animal. what is considering normal cognitive functioning and coorelation between the active brain centers involved in their behavior is in fact only a dumb, unevolved, evolutionary mechanism... which because it accounts for the vast majority of 'normal' people, is believed to be ideal, healthy, appropriate.
in the eyes of us sociopaths, however, you look and act more like obscene apes. obscene because unlike the apes in the zoo, you apes aren't aware that you're apes. you fell behind while us others were experiencing a cultural and philosophical revolution. in fact it is even unfair to you (and us) that we continue to share the same planet.
... then i found myself sittin' in this philosophy forum down in houston texas. was drinkin' colorado koolaid and talkin' to some mexicans...