[ExI] parents

[William Flynn Wallace]

Once upon a time I taught an undergraduate course in Human Sexuality.  Very
little that the students knew, or didn't, or thought, surprised me.  Vast
ignorance, of course, and full of superstitions.

But to my subject:  one thing grossed them out.  No, it wasn't any sort of
kinky sex, or rape or anything you might think of off the top of your head.

It was the idea of their parents making love.  Oh the body language I got
when that topic came up.  It was the mental image, the visual idea of those
two having at it, they said.  In a prior poll I took in class, many thought
that their parents had stopped having sex, and of course the parents were
mostly in their 40s.  I introduced the idea of other than penile-vaginal
sex.  "My Mother???!!!   Not my mother!!!!"

To extend the idea some, I asked if they were grossed out by the mental
image of fat people, or ugly, or very old people having sex. Oh yes, those
too!
Even the idea of their parents, esp. their mother, actually enjoying it,
having orgasms, laughing and having fun, or screaming, was taboo.  Gross.

Now I know my Freud and all, but that really surprised me -  a very
powerful form of denial.  FYI - the US is characterized worldwide as a
moderately repressed society re sex.  Not the usual image, right?  (Ireland
- very repressed. Scandanavia - very open and relaxed).

Does it surprise you?  Do you have some idea why this is so?

bill w
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