Sex, Lies and Videotape... about a school project

First posted: 14 november 2009

Today I want to analyze the themes taken from an Audiovisual lesson. Let me explain: the idea is to create some short movies (documentaries) dedicated to the same theme, selected by the teacher, that is sexuality. In a second time, when documentaries are ready we’ll merge them together into a full lenght movie, sequenced by the streaming of each different short film thanks to the “Script Continuity”, whose goal is finding a leading main thread (I should call this project an highway to hell, considering that I decided to be part of this team and I had to develop the project helped by seven lazy persons that i didn’t know before that).

The topics created regarding the main theme are very heterogeneous such as sadomasochism, webcam virtual sex, self erotic acts, the concept of nudity, the progressive decline of the desire of elder persons (but, why should we necessarily think that at a certain age people become sexless?), the difference in the sexuality conception between Musilism and Catholics (I can’t understand this theme because each of us has got a different concept about his body; it’s not, in my opinion, a question of religious issues about faith and beliefs but it’s a physical thing), the conception of the Christian church, homosexuality, mate swappers, sex from a blind man perspective (because they think it’s interesting to compare it with our vision that it’s often supposed to be delivered and expressed through the scheme and classification of conventional images and theories, and the most degrading thing is that they want to interview him in a sexy-shop).

What did this groups miss?
I think that, to create a sort of entertaining show (where they could be the “creative gods”), they forgot the real beauty of sex, the simplicity that forms it and that my mates think as banal. We have forgotten that this simple act leads to an important consequence, our birth.
We didn’t understand the difference between sexuality and eroticism mixing them together and without knowing that the first is related to an action, an animal instinct, and the second is a purely human pleasure and rationally related to a sensual game.

The strategy of media (showing a very silly and superficial idea of sex and eroticism, in a sort of massive diffusion of a dominant, one sided vision of the subject), instead of making us like voyeurs, addicetd to prying through doors keyholes, and it helped us to forget the beauty of a simple and instinctive act: we are unable to live it in a natural way but we tend to put into homemade and quick schemes that reduce and lower the substance and meaning of the topic, being connected and linked to prestructured prejudices and presumed dogmas and models of knowledge because we have forgotten how to know ourselves and the others, suspended between a selfish “ego” and a complete neglection of others personalities, interests, needs, etc.

We fail to admit that we have just become voyeurs and “sex customers”, empty creatures totally unaware of the true nature of love, eroticism, sex, trapped in the cage made of our fears, formal doctrines and existential dilemmas.