Showing posts with label antisexualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antisexualism. Show all posts

NAMELESS PODCAST: THE TRAGEDY OF SEX

In his latest "Nameless" Podcast, Andy Nowicki talks about what makes him a sort of "antisexualist" (in spite of being a raging red-blooded heterosexual and a married man with children to boot).

MORAL EROTICA? A CHRISTIAN WRITER'S CONUNDRUM


By Andy Nowicki

(Note: the following excerpt is from an upcoming autobiography and literary treatise, which concerns the artist's moral responsibility to challenge our debauched Zeitgeist and to spit aesthetic defiance into the faces of his would-be cultural controllers, in as exquisitely compelling a manner as possible... see also Alt Right Art.)

And now, being a happily married middle-aged man with two lovely children, I find myself more perplexed than ever concerning my native-born antisexualism. As a writer, I am compelled to explore sexual themes in a manner that takes seriously their appeal while at the same time rejecting the rampantly “hedonistic,” relentlessly pro-sexualist perspective one finds so ubiquitously in our current state of aesthetic and cultural degeneracy. How does one pick one’s way through this sweaty swamp, finding a balance somewhere between sterile and irritatingly ironic distance on the one side and prurient debasement on the other? How can sex become an aspect of a writer’s aesthetic, complete with an acknowledgement of its undeniable allure, without this concomitantly leading to a seeming out-and-out endorsement of what one portrays? How can one write erotically, eschewing prudery and rejecting cringing, cowardly euphemism, without one's prose becoming unseemly and pornographic as a result?

MANLY FLACCIDITY



My previous articles at Alternative Right and Counter-Currents, analyzing and and critiquing the manosphere and its attendent pick-up-artist "game" ethos, provoked a wide variety of responses. Commenters chimed in with much to say about what I had to say, and their feedback ranged from the highly complimentary to the lasceratingly scathing and epithet-intensive.

Still, nothing that I've written on this subject has managed to stir the proverbial shit so vigorously as Ava Moretti's recent article "Pick Up Artists" has. Like Jaenelle Antas in a similar piece two years ago, Moretti indicted alt-rightists, white nationalists, and gamers alike for what she claimed was their all-too prevalent misogynistic attitudes. At the same time (also like Antas), Moretti maintained her own traditionalist female bona fides, thus distancing herself from the harridanic ideological misandry which pockmarks the hideously haggish countenance of contemporary feminism. But such insistances on Moretti's part did nothing to dissuade many masculinist commenters from believing her to be little more than a shrill feminist shill in disguise, or even more hilariously, a "beta" male on the down-low (perhaps yours truly, or perhaps C-C editor-in-chief Greg Johnson), who'd pussily assumed a female pseudonym to engage in an undercover rant against those manly-man "alpha" gamers of whom he's clearly so desperately jealous.