• David Hamilton, a photographer accused of raping a 13 year old girl
• Polanski, a film director who faced charges involving raping a 13 y.o. girl (more here)
• Nabokov, who wrote the novel Lolita about a middle-aged professor obsessed with a 12-year-old girl with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather
• Lewis Carroll, famous for his controversial collection of photographs of children
• Lacan, whose thinking has been interpreted as implying that "all sex is just masturbation by means of other people"... "For Lacan, we are attracted only to sex, to sexual ecstasy, jouissance; not to the sexual partner, who is simply an instrument for obtaining our own sexual satisfaction....". (see here)
Incest Love
by RT
[Translation ≠ Endorsement]
You were right, my dear Lewis Carroll. You offered a code to humanity about how an adult can bridge that almost inaccessible world of child love. Word games, guessing games, transformation stories, drawings, surprises, dressing up, and, above all, a calm naturalness, without haste.
You were correct my dear Freud when you revealed the impossible love and tried to understand it, making it into a possible Oedipus Complex.
Right you were, dearest Nabokov, to think that a mature man would do anything to achieve that soft and mysterious desire that, even if unrealized, has the force of destiny.
You were doing the right thing Mr. Lacan, following in Alice's footsteps with all your overpowering scholarship.
You were altogether right, dear Polanski, using a mode of seduction fit for our time, offering the most refined and poetic space to the splendour of the virgin girls.
And above all, you were absolutely right, my most admired David Hamilton, when you photograph the pale tenderness of teenagers in pink and snow white colours. And when you photograph the insecurity of a nascent, morbid, repressed and passionate sexuality, which occurs between play and desire, between innocence and the original intuition of love, and dress with transparent veils these fainted, helpless and absolutely offered bodies, helpless like a fruit to the hunger of a starveling man. You approach with serene security the genital tremor of the flower just opened."
We now know that the child seeks adult love as a primary impulse; and seeks it with despair. We also now know that adults need that love, which it is part of their health and of their joy and it can become their only joy.
How much perversion exists in these advocates of the incest taboo? How monstrous deformation is there in these Puritans who organize associations to "help" the victims and perpetrators of incest transforming the problem into psychopathology or into judicial or pedagogical matters?
The time has come for researchers to have the courage to reveal this carefully silenced aspect of human nature. The fall of the incest taboo can give humanity a paradise here [on earth]."
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