A married woman and mother of a family, goes out at night voluntarily and without necessity, to prostitute herself secretly in the most despicable way in the street and with different men; a cardinal has a young transgender lover whom he sodomizes in his ecclesiastical palace; a young woman is sleeping with an old man - in full knowledge of her parents and boyfriend - for money and above all for pleasure; a married woman is also concubine of a drug trafficker who keeps her financially, into his harem of women and catamites. A man keeps a secret and informal harem of married women whom he visits and has relations in strict order according to a calendar. A man approaches a young woman in the street whom consents to have violent sex in his car in exchange for cocaine and a ride to home. A married woman has sexual relations with a young man she has just met, expels with the lowest rudeness to her husband who witnesses how his wife is inseminated by the stranger.
Secrecy, Corruption, dirt, sordidness, deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, violence: Sex.
The key is in transgression, in the transgressor act. There is a sexual energy that is released when the written laws are broken, when the unwritten balance of what is right (or proper in a standard civilized model whatever it is) is fissioned. The fission or decomposition of this structure releases an erotic energy that is born from the new distances it imposes on its elements where an structured fusion of elements once reigned: love, laws, the convention that makes possible the civic road.
The key is that they are acts performed under the free choice of the protagonists. That there is consent in at least someone and at least through some time.
They are all ingredients of a dynamic, of an story in which I can not say that there is always freedom but that there is consensual degradation. A character corrupts another, sometimes by forceing and pushing him or her to its destination and then it's insinuated the violence and sex.
It is the hidden but often violent force of nature that, through the deregulation of sex, destroys, transgresses the convention of civilized life. Like the roots of a tree that is raising, opening and breaking a path, a street. The civis.
Sex is the first and the last step of Nature's creative destruction.
(The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera)
Sex, sexual energy is related to violence, to transgression, in its most extreme version with aggression, violence, tyranny and the end of freedom. Even in its most standard version of the sexual act, the man must transgress the body of the woman, must enter to consummate the act, even when there is consent should be noted that a small violence is necessary for the act. We can deceive ourselves but peaceful sex does not exist. It must release energies in a short period of time. Same definition of what constitutes an explosion.
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