The Human Animal

[poliphilo]

We wear our skeletons on the inside and are largely made of water.

Our natural condition is to be wibbly-wobbly and slippy-sloppy and therefore vulverable.

So we cultivate an ideal of hardness.

We aspire to look like statues,

we work out,

we present ourselves to the world in clothes which- from the suit of armour, through the corset to the business suit- suggest toughness and sleekness

and we make a taboo of the sex act because, to the outside observer, it is then that we are at our most flobbelly-dobbelly.

Comments

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

that had never occurred to me, but you know, I think you definitely have something there

Lovely word, "vulverable"- Evokes thoughts of things perhaps "vulva-able" :-)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh- I'd missed that.

What a happy typing error!

[philtration.livejournal.com]

That made me laugh! I say that you should actually start using the word whenever possible. Maybe it will catch on and then you can copy write it and become wealthy. You can have t-shirts, posters and bumper stickers for your auto.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One thing I've never been any good at is getting wealthy...:)