@mel: with no need to involve any dirty-mindedness in this, the key-sexuality symbol seems quite obvoius to me, and not to me only, I think: it's quite a shared metaphor, to such a degree that in italian a quite vulgar way to mean the act of having complete sex is a neologism that translated means more or less "to 'key' " (italian: "chiavare"), and it's a metaphor used in a lot of italian sub-dialects. And anyway, at least on a level of pure intuition-related hint, the sexual metaphore is quite often used, at least in italy, for technical and easy-communication purposes, in every kind of phenomenon that includes the interaction of two parts to be interfaced, one of them pointy annd the other one hole-shaped: in example, electric plugs and sockets are usually referred as "males" and "females", and an electriuc plug which can be inserted in a socket and
on whom three different other plugs can be inserted (useful when you have three plugs but just one socket) is commonly called "three-females-one-male". Anyway, the field for sex- or gender-related metaphors is imo more or less unending, and I think sex is one of the most flexible and stretchable concepts I can imagine (together, maybe, with mind or metaphysical elements). Start form the Sword and the Chalice and go on. or off
>to my mind the word "key" brings automatically an image of
>mystery,keys opening doors maybe lead to sth bit hidden,sth like
>unrevealing secrets....Sexuality is also sth somehow hidden,sth
>conceiled under a veil of mystery...at least when we see it hmm
>from the part of the society... sth people don't dare to discuss
>openly
Don't agree. Of course I agree with the idea of sex as some sort of unlock and reciprocal... er... interestingly conceived misunderstanding?
, but the "secret", or "mystery-filled" level is, imo, simply
built-in, and related to sex in itself, and not to social behaviour. The point is, sex is more or less a kind or communication, one who doesn't use (mainly) verbal or purely movement-related means, and one who involves level of perfsonality usually not very involved in everyday communication. This leads to results on such a range of levels (or anyway on such
genres of levels), that simply they cannot be completely made explicit by verbal communication. Just as in, let's say, art, or languages, the message is simply not completely transprtable on another level or kind of communication. If people talked about their sexual experience every day with everyone, even in the tiniest detail, sex wouldn't be less "mysterious", just more talked about. It's a matter of unadequateness of communication means, imo.
Alfred (whose dirty mind got lost and somehow reached the control room)
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