In addition to the pathetic characteristics of necessity and emergency in sex hysteria I’ve described in the past, a peculiar aspect of hysterical thinking is to focus on a relatively minor sin...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2022/05/01/selective-outrage-in-sex-hysteria/
As if there aren’t sufficiently exaggerated efforts by law enforcement to investigate and prosecute sex crimes, some civilians feel an urgent need to help out with the crusade. Don’t worry ab...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/sex-crime-vigilantes/
Pasolini’s film “Arabian Nights” (1974) is unlike the other examples of “child porn” I’ve described in the past, in that this film really is pornographic. Just about anything can be c...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/child-porn-italian-style/
The loud and frequent virtue signaling against sex is a fraud. When I was a university student I remember being required to study the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, but I was not informed about h...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/sex-in-the-real-italy/
There seems to be a double standard in what the Italian courts consider “child pornography,” depending on whether the producer is an Italian national or a foreigner. There are numerous exampl...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/italys-double-standard-on-child-porn/
A common trick in propaganda is to claim that some actions are not merely desired but rather are necessary, and urgent action is required to avoid imminent disaster. Hence there is no need to inv...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/necessity-and-emergency-in-sex-hysteria/
A striking parallel exists between the very real hysteria over child sex abuse, and the wholly fictional story “The Others.” In that imaginative fiction a mother is trying to prepare her chil...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/sex-and-ghosts/
I once wrote a novel “Revolt of the Children” about poor kids in Palermo who rebel against physical, sexual and emotional abuse. The abuse is dramatized, and the story is set “some time aft...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/sex-hysteria-stranger-than-fiction/
Welcome to the land that invented witch hunts. Italy’s salvation from repeated pedo scandals in the Roman Catholic church is to accuse foreigners of being the worst witches. How convenient to h...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/american-witches-abroad/
For years I’ve criticized the mass hysteria over child porn and child sex abuse, but I now realize I was wrong. Hysteria can actually be a good thing. If prudes are calm and rational they can b...
https://sexhysteria.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/the-virtue-of-hysteria/