Well, I am back in Melbourne once again. The summer was a blast and I am glad I took the time to travel north, visit some new places, learn new things and make new friends!
I have recently been thinking about conditioning of children and the cruel re-conditioning of children approaching adulthood. Such as.......
Isn't it sad that we are trained to take naps during the day, take 2 1/2 months off a year for summer vacation, must incorporate playtime into our daily lives and learn something new everyday when we are young and then we get to a magical number, 18 (for many of us), then we are driven into a life where you punch a time card from 8 to 5 (if you are really lucky today, you only have one job only working 40 hrs. a week instead of two jobs working 50 or more hrs. a week) with an hour for lunch (nixing the nap altogether), in many workplaces you must be employed for 2 years before you even get a 2-week vacation, and the only play that adults want to engage in seem to require expensive motorized toys that do all the physical work.
Well....I have a lot on my mind these days but they are not worth mentioning. I will just sign off for now!!!
XOXOXOXXOXO
Emma : )
Monday, September 24, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
"Kiss Me...Again"
Ahhhh.....what a wonderful thought...and a great name for a most interesting film I just watched tonight. I usually do not like to tell the whole plot of a movie but in this case I must because I was drawn to the subject and want to reflect on my feelings about this film.
"Kiss Me Again" is about a young married couple (husband is a college professor and the wife works with small children in a school) who happen to witness their female roommate (an artist) engaged in a threesome and begin thinking about their own sex lives.
The husband talks his wife into bringing a woman into their sex life to see if it would add value to their lives. It did not take too much convincing for the wife to agree and they set out to find someone. A woman is found to join them. The only problem is that the husband knows this woman (she is a student in his class who is attracted to him) but pretends not to know her when she happens to respond to the newspaper ad the couple places.
The meeting leads to a sexual encounter between the three and the wife becomes more taken with the lesbian experience than she could have imagined. The two women become very close as a result but when the deceit comes to light the three lives become entangled in an emotional upheaval. After the storm settles and the wife allows herself to hear from both sides she comes to realize that the feelings between the three are deep and honest and that there must be a way to work out their problems. The film ends with the three of them walking through a park and hands begin touching....one can imagine they have worked things out (as I did) and something positive was gained from the sharing of honest loving feelings. The only thing that could have made this film positively beautiful would have been the uncensored love scenes. I am so tired of either edited love scenes or bad porn that has NO intelligent script writing and/or degrading, male dominated sex scenes.
I felt compelled to write on this topic because I have begun to rethink my views of healthy loving relationships. I have done a bit of reading in the last year about different sexual dynamics, relationships, and the spiritual and psychological philosophy of love.
Maybe my current relationship views are still immature (given my lack of experience in a long-term committed relationship) but I feel very strongly that love is something to be shared and not held exclusively to certain people at various levels. It sounds absurd to think that exclusivity can have any positive connection to the word "love". Unconditional love is indeed something that seems completely irrational and unattainable to human beings but does that mean we should not strive to seek it? And, yes, being physically loving with everyone is not to our benefit and not advisable. But why can't there be physical relationships with more than one person as long as honesty and respect is upheld?
Learning how to rethink relationships in our American society is no easy task, especially since the only way we view anything other than a 2-person (male/female) relationship as abnormal or immoral. I am waiting for Hollywood to write and produce a film or even better, a tv series about a woman seeking out-of-the-ordinary loving/sexual relationships in a positive light.
I'm ready Hollywood..... (the camera draws toward me)...in the immortal words of Nora Desmond "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
XOXOXXOXOXO
Emma : )
"Kiss Me Again" is about a young married couple (husband is a college professor and the wife works with small children in a school) who happen to witness their female roommate (an artist) engaged in a threesome and begin thinking about their own sex lives.
The husband talks his wife into bringing a woman into their sex life to see if it would add value to their lives. It did not take too much convincing for the wife to agree and they set out to find someone. A woman is found to join them. The only problem is that the husband knows this woman (she is a student in his class who is attracted to him) but pretends not to know her when she happens to respond to the newspaper ad the couple places.
The meeting leads to a sexual encounter between the three and the wife becomes more taken with the lesbian experience than she could have imagined. The two women become very close as a result but when the deceit comes to light the three lives become entangled in an emotional upheaval. After the storm settles and the wife allows herself to hear from both sides she comes to realize that the feelings between the three are deep and honest and that there must be a way to work out their problems. The film ends with the three of them walking through a park and hands begin touching....one can imagine they have worked things out (as I did) and something positive was gained from the sharing of honest loving feelings. The only thing that could have made this film positively beautiful would have been the uncensored love scenes. I am so tired of either edited love scenes or bad porn that has NO intelligent script writing and/or degrading, male dominated sex scenes.
I felt compelled to write on this topic because I have begun to rethink my views of healthy loving relationships. I have done a bit of reading in the last year about different sexual dynamics, relationships, and the spiritual and psychological philosophy of love.
Maybe my current relationship views are still immature (given my lack of experience in a long-term committed relationship) but I feel very strongly that love is something to be shared and not held exclusively to certain people at various levels. It sounds absurd to think that exclusivity can have any positive connection to the word "love". Unconditional love is indeed something that seems completely irrational and unattainable to human beings but does that mean we should not strive to seek it? And, yes, being physically loving with everyone is not to our benefit and not advisable. But why can't there be physical relationships with more than one person as long as honesty and respect is upheld?
Learning how to rethink relationships in our American society is no easy task, especially since the only way we view anything other than a 2-person (male/female) relationship as abnormal or immoral. I am waiting for Hollywood to write and produce a film or even better, a tv series about a woman seeking out-of-the-ordinary loving/sexual relationships in a positive light.
I'm ready Hollywood..... (the camera draws toward me)...in the immortal words of Nora Desmond "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
XOXOXXOXOXO
Emma : )
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