Day TwentySeven - Gardening

Home & Garden - Sexuality
pressed in 2002















"For many women, adolescence is exciting - they're really interested in boys and sex. But gradually they lose interest; they're not so keen to open their legs or to get on their knees and wiggle their ass. They're looking for a tender relationship they never will find, for a passion they're no longer capable of feeling. Thus they begin the difficult years." - Michel Houellebecq






















just then
the hunters came out of the woods
following the wolves' trail
and shooting as they went


it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality (sexuality)
it's just too young for me
it's that sexuality
it's just too young for me

it's that sexuality
now you know you're too young for me
you try to make me smile and you do for awhile
but that, that won't be enough you see (it's just too young)
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me

it's that sexuality (sexuality)
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality

it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
you see, you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
you're just too young
it's that sexuality

it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality

you're tooo young
it's that sexuality
you're just too young for me
it's that sexuality (you're just too young for me)
























"After copulation, all animals are sad - so the ancient Romans used to say.

Apart from foxes, I would have added. And apart from women. I knew that for certain now. I don't mean to say that women are animals. Quite the contrary - men are much closer to the animals in every respect: the smells they give off and the sounds they make, their type of physicality and the methods they use to fight for personal happiness (not to mention what they actually think of as happiness.). But the ancient Roman who described his own mood after the act of love in metaphorical terms was evidently such an entirely organic sex-chauvinist that he simply failed to take women into account, and that means I have to restore justice.

Generally speaking, there could be at least four explanations for this saying:
1) the Romans didn't think woman was even an animal
2) the Romans thought woman was an animal, but they copulated with her in a way that really did make her sad (for instance, Suetonius tells us that the law forbade the killing of virgins by strangulation, and the executioner used to ravish them before the execution - how could you help feeling sad?).
3) the Romans didn't think woman was an animal, they assumed only man was. For this noble view of things, the Romans could be forgiven a great deal - apart, of course, from those foul-ups of theirs with virgins and strangulation.
4) the Romans had no penchant for either woman or metaphor, but they did for livestock cattle and poultry, who did not reciprocate and were unable to conceal their feelings." - Victor Pelevin (cut)