Eric "Renderking" Fisk is a proud Retro-Sexual... who believes his wife's place is in the kitchen: Making Cookies while he's working on the dishes. All kidding aside: There are some things that should remain private - and it's a mystery why too many people think there's a problem with that as illistrated in

Ren's Rants

December 17th, 2005

"The One where Ren uses the Word “Orgasm” in a Rant!"


I have rant in the works about how Retail Franchises have taken over and hijacked the holidays. I’ll save that for later.
This one was written in the heat of the moment in response to something said in a forum about people are offended that there are a few folks who don’t want to see gay cowboy flick “Brokeback Mountain” how the material might be inappropriate for the holiday season.

Do you get that? There are some people in the gay community who are actually offended that there are some straight people just aren’t interested in seeing “Brokeback Mountain.” I’m one of those people who just aren’t interested in seeing a movie about gay cowboys… doesn’t mean I’m homophobe? I have no interest in seeing of "Memoirs of a Geisha" until it’s out on DVD; does that mean I’m a racist?

I’ll say this about the movie: Don’t like it, then don’t see it. Rather then protesting the movie or give it any more attention – move on and put our thoughts and wallets into something else… like the Remake of “King Kong…”

The problems that I’m seeing with western society is that we’re too focused on what’s going on between our legs then what’s going on between our ears and in our hearts. There’s an over-saturation of news and information about Sex today – which would have bordered on Pornography 10 or 20 years ago.

Perfect example: Take a look at all the covers of the magazines and “news papers” at the check out isle. Many women and men’s mags have articles about how to enhance your sex life – how to get better orgasms and juggle lovers and your personal/private life. Articles about getting away with sex at work and other such nonsense. What kind of message is that sending to youth? Getting laid must be more important then Science or Politics: Because they don’t carry “Time” Or “Discovery” at the check out counters they way they used to.

I can’t even get into what we see on Television with out spending an hour with writing about what’s wrong. Let me just cut it short that there’s too much focus and emphasis on sex in sit-coms and dramas. The only place where there isn’t’ too much emphasis on “getting laid” is on the crime shows – where the focus is more on who killed whom in some graphic manner.

As far as the Homosexual Issue is concerned: There are too many gay activists who are over playing the “Homophobia” card. If I don’t want to know or see anything related to gays people being intimate, don’t be a jackass or an intellectual terrorist and tell me I’m a “homophobe” and accuse me of being secretly queer. That’s just as evil as me telling gay couples they’re going to hell because of their behavior. Accusing me of being a homophobe or being a closet gay is a freaking hate crime – and is said as a means of killing the debate by vilifying those you don't share the same opinion as you.

I’m not a closet queer or a homophobe, because not only do I not want to see explicit gay material: I’m also against seeing explicit straight sex, too.

This isn’t an invitation for people to call me sexually oppressed. If it were true, it wouldn’t be your business anyway. Sex is something that should be between the people having it. Nobody else needs to know about it or see it. It’s not an issue that should be made public or a topic for mixed company.

I can say this with a clear conscience: There’re a level of mass-mental illness and sexual dysfunction in society because people DEMAND that they be open and share their sexual issues with everyone else – an epidemic of voyeurism. This kind of crap adults should have out-grown once they graduated Junior High.

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