?? (For fear of titleing), oh and genitals

I could have spelt ‘titleing’ as ‘titling‘ however the latter just sounds like (albeit a cute and compelling) form of breast fondling, so I chose to break with convention instead.  I contintue to refer to the title of this post, because apparently I should be more careful when titleing my posts, instead of using whatever comes into my head first.  Again, procrastination sees me doing stupid things like ebaying when I have no discernable income, looking at sites that just end in a spiral of even more timewasting… and checking my blog stats.  So, it seems that my audience of two (ok, maybe three) has risen recently due to the number of people googling ‘Daniel Kitson’ and ‘girlfriend’.  I can only assume that my couple of throwaway lines about Kitson were greatly disappointing to those searching for more info on people Kitson loves or has loved and lost/left??  I apologise, I will no longer be a careless titler (maybe).  

In other musings I woke up this morning thinking about gentalia- well, why wouldn’t you?  Specifically, do you ever wonder at how bizzare it is that the showing of genitals is so taboo in the context of a sex scene?  My reasoning is thus: Genitals, despite all intents (?) and purposes, exist innocuously as simply another part of one’s body.  They are however, apparently not innocuous because of their shady connections to sex.  So… if sex is what constitutes the ’dirty’ part of one’s genitals, does not the ’artfully’ constructed sex scene and famous actresses/actors making big deals about a no nudity clause, seem to be kind of- missing the point?  That is to say- it’s too late, you’re already dirty?

So after I had this train of thought, I couldn’t help but wonder- but ah, are genitals even without their sexual connections, inherently abject?  Perhaps they are truly not as aesthetically pleasing as say, lips or legs or eyes?  I happened to come across some mini-interview with Katherine Moening (apparently she plays someone on the L-Word, or if you’re me, you’d know that she played a girl pretending to be a guy at a boy’s boarding school in the short-lived Young Americans, apparently to gain her mother’s attention, but then spends most of her time trying to hide the fact of her ‘rebellion’ from her mother, go figure) in Interview (don’t know what issue, um recent) where when asked about her pet peeves she responded:  “Dishonesty. And tomatoes. I don’t mind the exterior part, but the seeds and that gooey concoction in the centre just do not down well.”  Well, ok then.

I personally find a visceral reaction to tomatoes a little dramatic, but I can’t ignore the prevalence of tomato and/or gooey food haters.  So, is the tomato the vagina of the fruit/vegetable world?  I ask because people seemingly have no issues with zucchinis, parsnips, carrots or any other phallic vegetable- none these seem to inspire the same kind of fear as the tomato- (not to push this produce analogy too far or anything).  Vaginas have compartively less exposure than penises when it comes to the conventional sex scene- you might occassionally get a full  frontal glimpse of a male actor, but you’ll never see a female actress with her legs spread unless it’s porn.

That said, the recent and oddly widespread vagina tabloid flashings would perhaps suggest a rise in the stock of the vagina within mainstream media, but I’d suggest if you were thinking that, you’d be wrong.  I’m still sticking with my “genitals are taboo and abject, especially if they’re vaginas” theory.  If you have no idea what I’m talking about- type in Lindsay Lohan/Britney Spears- no underwear in google image, and get caught up.  Even better check out a gossip site like tmz or perezhilton and glance at the comments, which generally choose not to focus on either propriety or the ‘hotness’ of viewing startlet’s ill conceived short dresses-no underpants-getting out of car without carefully pressing legs together combination, but rather on a series of ‘that’s gross’ variations.  The vagina it seems, is ill-suited to entering the mainstream media arena- they’re too squishy and mysterious.  Perhaps penises are just as taboo as vagina’s and I’m genital-prejudice biased? I dunno.

I only have two more things to say:

1) repeat after me: psychopaths exist, guns laws help psychopaths inflict comparatively less damage

2) so most of you hear me moan about all the dramas in my life on a regular basis, I’m sorry guys, but that is going to continue for some time, because my life right now, freaking hell, is stress stress drama drama, more stress, more drama.  If you see me, goddamn don’t hold back, give me a hug, I’ll need it.