Parallax Sangha #7: Raven Connolly - Gender Envy
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The Religious Icon Is the Kind of Fetish
We seek images to channel our libido towards and if I'm like a 13th century peasant and I go into my church and there's like a life size model of a guy being crucified like that's like watching a BDSM porno. The only symbol that's got any valency these days is the Nazi swastika. That's the only culturally universal symbol that people look at it and it produces a real emotional reaction that and hardcore porn. Raven: We seem to have reached a threshold point where those icons were so saturated by them that they don't tickle the itch anymore.
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