FAK983-Chester Brown - Paying for It FAKEOLOGIST.COM
Fascinating conversation about the life of Chester Brown.
Paying for It, "a comic strip memoir about being a john", is a 2011 graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown. A combination of memoir and polemic, the book explores Brown's decision to give up on romantic love and to take up the life of a "john" by frequenting sex workers. The book, published by Drawn & Quarterly, was controversial, and a bestseller.
The book is concerned with Brown's conflicting desire to have sex, but not wanting to have another girlfriend after his partner Sook-Yin Lee breaks up with him. His solution is to forgo traditional boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and marriage. He takes up frequenting sex workers, and comes to advocate prostitution as superior to the "possessive monogamy" of traditional male–female relations, which he debates with his friends throughout the book.
Hi db!
ReplyDelete"To be clear, all males pay for sex. Some pay with freedom, time, life energy, emotions....others pay with money." - very well said. I agree with you and I would add that the whole CULTure is setup that way to mess with us on a sexual energy level. The way the society is structured, all the symbolism, pop-culture, and on and on... as if to 'feed' in some way on that deep energy extraction.
I would also say that in many ways human relationships are untruth. The vast majority of times (if not all the times) it's NOT a deep 'soul'/'spirit' (for lack of better words) connection. Instead it becomes a relationship of needs, of chasing fulfillment of mental ideals (which are fake), and endless pleasure seeking.
You would have to (at least theoretically) have two 'liberated' beings to make a relationship fully beneficial, for both sides and the surrounding. But then again maybe that is not possible at all in this world.
The whole idea of 'love', and the way we all understand it, seems to be (as everything) just another trick, just another scam, an illusion, so to speak.
Hope you're doing well.
Cheers,
Luke
Hi Luke...I agree with everything you wrote. I could never understand why someone you are physically attracted to would also be your "soul-mate", another weaponized term. We are in synch, Luke. I was just composing my thoughts to do a post called, "the Illusion of Love", but it looks like you have already done it for me. Thank you for your observations and wisdom. Great comment...thank you, db
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