22.12.05

"Erotophobia"

I first saw the term "erotophobia" in this article. The depoliticization of sexual speech is baffling to me, but I've said that before.

An example even beyond erotophobia. Body-phobia, I guess:
Last night I was wandering around and came across a statue of a pro basketball player from my city's team. Although there was amazing detail in his leg muscles, the toes gripping through the shoe, the fold in his sock, his facial features and expression, the way his fingers were tensed, engaging the ball - despite all this, there were no genitals on the statue. No bulge through his shorts. No bump where a jockstrap would be. I wasn't expecting definition or anything necessarily erotic, but the utter lack of a physical indication of genitalia is absurd.

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