Obsession - curious word, it's Ob-Session. Sounds a bit like Obstetrics..Which in turns sounds a bit like Hysterics.
Could it be that Obsession is an individual session with Hysteria - and related to Obstetrics - the science of treating and caring for women before, during and after childbirth ?
Could it be that Obsession is an individual face to face with Hysteria around female sexuality, around the Feminine ?
I think so too...
There is a world wide obsession with Sex. No doubt about it. This obsession is most felt in the West, where Sex is edified into a god, sacrificed for and worshiped. Notice I did not use the word Eros here, just Sex. Eros has degenerated into Sex. The poor thing is so commercialized that even he resigned from his predestined mission. Eros is out, Sex is in.
I noticed the more "modern/advanced" a society, the greater the obsession. Crude, vulgar, unadulterated, untampered, unbridled, unchecked...
Sex or Eros upside down, is the new leisure, the new pastime, the new hobby, the new recreational play field where all is permissible, all is condoned, all is hailed under the banner of Personal Freedom of so-called consenting Adults.
Anyone with a bit of awareness realizes the fallacies of such clamor.
I will not go into the rising number of STD's infected persons, nor into the 1001 sexual transgressions and assaults, nor into the most weird of perversions where people push themselves to insane limits so they can experience that "divine ecstasy" of the ultimate orgasm, nor will I touch upon the decadent promiscuity where partners are amassed like some trophies, nor will I broach the multi-billion dollars a year, industries of pornographic sex and prostitution, nor will I mention the voyeurism and exhibitionism of the new god and its faithful adepts - from strip tease clubs, to cyber porn both amateur and professional...nor will I touch upon the pathetic standards of what it means to be "sexy" with the right combination of body measurements, right lips, right nose, right eyes -- all derived from a crude Darwinism where thousands of researchers pull up one theory after another derived from biology, zoology, psychology and publish one article after another of how to look so one can fit into the "fuckability" ethos.
Because you see, in the new world order of Sex, your worth is measured by how fuckable you are.
And that extends beyond the act of sex into rape -- invasions and occupations in the name of Freedom are, an extension of this obsession.
The underworld of this poor Eros turned upside down is dark, murky, ugly and sick...and the demons reproduce and give birth to "angels".
The flip side is the other extreme - the moralistic, puritanical, celibates of the new world order - Vatican and Co. And we all know what these are up to in their confessions booths and Sunday classes.
But the god of Sex also gave birth to yet another child, another prodigal child out of the chaos of obsessive free sex and the neurotic repressive abstinence of the robed priests and nuns...it has given birth to a third child - the new sex of the New Age.
Western morons traveling to India and elsewhere in search of the Elixir. Or better, spend thousands of dollars at the feet of charlatans in London, Paris, New York, California to learn the art of Sex - Tantric sex, so they can learn all about their Chakras, and go "beyond"...wanting, demanding --Transcendence. They paid for it, after all.
You see, I have nothing against Sex nor Transcendence but if you need to pay thousands of dollars to discover it, then you must be really in the pits....just proves how far down and how misguided/unguided you've been. Left to your own devices to figure it all out, you've gone totally insane....
Then, in a bid to save yourselves, you reach out to the East (and its charlatan Gurus and Swamis) so you can be guided again, for a price...in dollars, in cash. Again publication after publication, book after book are printed on the Art of Sex, Tantric Sex, Taoist Sex, Spiritual Sex, Christian Sex, Jewish Sex, Buddhist Sex....
Either way, you have to head East and you remain obsessed. So you keep fucking each other crazy and mechanically, instantly (like instant food)-- the one minute multi-orgasm like the one minute manager theory -- or your cross oceans to go and fuck other people's lives, irremediably so.
Eros has resigned. He says to you, sex is overrated and your kind of sex is pure garbage from the underworld. He says to you that he came across another one of your "scientific" studies that says that the average total numbers of hours -- including foreplay, kissing, intercourse, orgasm - assuming we will all kick the bucket at 75, is a total of 2 months in 75 years.
Your whole sexual obsession and its numerous branches and industries amount to 2 months in a lifetime...that is less than eating, drinking, sleeping and shitting...
But you see, everyone thinks that their sex is out of this world, unique, like none other...another figment of your imagination. Eros says you've missed the point. And He adds - even your abstinence is another form of obsession...
So this collective hysteria with sex is nothing but the collective obsession with female sexuality, with the Feminine -- not as in vagina, not as in uterus, not as in childbirth, nor as in women per se, but as in something way deeper....
It may very well be that you need to look for that Elixir in the Womb of Life - The Rahman, the Raheem. *
* Rahman - Raheem : two attributes of God / Allah in Arabic. The Compassionate, the Merciful.
Rahman, Raheem come from the root word RAHM which means Womb.
P.S : The West is always hampering about how Arabs and Muslims are sexually repressed and it devises several methods to liberate us - I just thought I'd return the favor in small...
