When sodomy is a social/sexual weapon, it is used to break a person's spirit and make them submit and be coercively shamed into self-distrust.
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Gay rights: A threat to the traditional insult
by Underground Panther in the Sky August 5, 2003
What would it mean to "society" if "families" were not just mother-father-kids?
It would destroy a mythos, a lie our entire culture has bought into, that serves the power elite the best, the lie the wage system needs us to believe, that keeps us in separate houses with separate cars that keeps us from coming together to see in real life we are all related. It would spell doom for the idea that a family is a separate entity, a family "makes it on its own two feet," and a home is an island. That a "breadwinner" can be a dominator by default 'cause he's usually male.
Sodomy laws: Sodomy used to be the ultimate sign of a person's vanquished status, of defeat, of humiliation and shame. Sodomy for a long time was the kind of secret you never even admitted to yourself. It was a trauma inflicted by a dominator, to a victim a secret scar ... unspeakable shame — and so, it was invested with power from the would-be dominator through shame, of violation, victimization, the conferring of a less than personhood status.
When sodomy is a social/sexual weapon, it is used to break a person's spirit and make them submit and be coercively shamed into self-distrust. When the definition of sodomy is taken away from the controlling, sick people who would use it to shatter the souls of those they would desire to dominate, and the dominated and shamed people re-define it as they see fit and say it, out loud, and speak of it in a way that is empowering ... sodomy loses it's perversity. It loses its power to shame and hurt people. Society's power-lie becomes more visible, the social control game is exposed for the wrong way it has been used by these domination freaks. The injustice gets a voice. And the truth gets louder than the shame.
With fearless understanding and acceptance of your own authentic self, healing comes and a new perspective on the act of anal sexuality is considered and chosen — without input from those who would destroy others for power, or prestige, or profit.
Once I was dealing with people who hated me, bullies in middle school. They were trying hard to tear me down with insults and shame. One insult was actually funny, and I laughed and told the bully it was funny. He looked crushed. They never used that "insult" again, because they discovered it had no power over me. I wasn't shamed. I learned a valuable lesson about my own power. The power of self-definition.
Likewise, when sodomy becomes just another flavor of sexual pleasure, then it will hold no more social power of shame over the people who have been hurt, betrayed, shamed, or socially coerced into playing the role of an object to be fucked up. It would have a new meaning. Because it would respect personhood.
The insult (sodomy) would have no more weapon-power. It would cease to be a threat, if the real purpose of the shame was visible. People would be outraged and bite the hand that feeds people these hurtful lies.
Those who abuse power need to take ordinary or different things about people and made them into something awful, shameful. They do it just to look more powerful or better than the people they seek to dominate. And a dominated person has to believe there is a shameful thing about themselves to hide. It is only that belief that grants power to the bully's insults. It makes the insults look real to the victims and real to others.
Heresy is simply speaking truth to the corruption of power and its self-serving orthodoxy. When a tower of power is built on lies, the truth is dangerous indeed — because the higher the powerful think they are above others, the farther they will fall, and the harder the truth will hit.
© 2003, by the author.
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