I
pricked my ears at the Euro-sexology Congress in Prague 2006.
In the end there took place a free discussion, yet still in the main
conference-room, audience normally sitting. I put up my hand and
motivated erection without Viagra. I said, there are about five
methods which (the more completely applied) hardly will fail to
induce erection by a healthy, well slept man.
A few persons asked me to tell the five methods. So, I begged them if they can guarantee me the copyright. They gave me a little smile, even an understanding one. And it is everything.
What does ensue from this little-big event?
For first, it is evident that pills are preferred both to erection and to the HIV/AIDS cure. They are preferred to this physical inducing (not speaking about "therapy" by a healthy man), as well as the safe-sex practices, instead of developing pills. It is one of the ethical failure of our civilization, near the argument of H. Arendt, we spoke about recently, here.
For second, I remember my strange feeling (abash, somehow traumatic, yet fully logical and legitimate) when I was working at a music-agency and I learnt that a nice concert cannot take place due to the lack of money for the bus to take the orchestra to the music-hall. In the economy-mix, the fuel for the bus is one indispensable ingredient.
The musicians imitate the common jobs not to play for free. In the Music Marketing textbook from the USA, they say concisely that "musicians can play for free on such a party, where also the waiters are working for free". In this context, I must study more in-depth what is the idea of the Pirate Party?
In addition, let us understand what is specific for the musicians are full-time practising and that they are often used to be quite unpractical persons concerning the other spheres of life, well, even naïve ones. So their case is not of Father David Bauer ilk. A rank-and-file musician is not able to "win a couple Olympic medals as a hobby", because s/he is not able to read in Ancient Greek as Bauer was able, which is evident from his graduation and even ordain.
Though I have the background and gift to write not only about sex, but also about the conditions around it and about the ethical standards of society, and even about the entire civilization, I was also assimilated to the corporate culture of the orchestral musicians. (I was waterproof against the Communist regime as an orchestral player.)
After all, it is the essence of any civilization to starve persons who criticizes it. (The civilizations namely prefer to collapse themselves. - And, indeed, it is even not necessary to directly criticize: not to pay lip-service to the leaders and not to cooperate with the corruptive structures, it is enough to cause poverty of an individual.) So, my ability to write is not proper for earning money. Therefore, I am in a situation similar to the Communist regime when the difference was only that I was segregated as a non-Communist. The thesis that there is a freedom here, is not true, since it is evident that the Freedom of Speech includes the other Freedoms, namely the Freedom from Want.
In such moments one recollects if there is some other source of potential money, and if possible within the field one is focused on. Yet, one is also aware that if s/he gives it out for free, than remains without (one of) the last resources.
If this was the case of the no-Viagra erection, it follows that I preserve the know-how in hope to capitalize it.
The know-how is not that revolutionary. Or at least its four items from five... We can see this or that hint of the elements in porn – yet, why we cannot cure our erectile problems on as many places as flu? Simply, though the know-how does exist, the doctors were asking me to tell it and intuitively we know it is not implemented.
The case of no-Viagra is but pars-pro-toto for (probably) many inventions which may improve our lives and could not be realized.
So, it is also not true that the free market environment ensures that all ideas of worth will be realized. We can see that this environment hits its limits.
If
I have died between 2006 and today – even, if I die before I upload
this text – the no-Viagra idea will be wandering, returning to Gods
mind, as it was – if Plato's dialogue Menon is true.
In my perspective HIV/AIDS, it is a case of ethics. It is the case of "to be or not to be". Even if the scientist are silence, (probably) by their taboo, it is my duty to suggest what was born in my brain – and for free, too.
The elements of pleasure are another case. They belong to the qualitative superstructure. There is no ethical imperative to improve your life, just as you do not feel obliged to pay an ice-cream for me now: you know, I can survive without it. Therefore, the pleasure rightfully can belong to the sphere of commerce.
Or, at lease, some civilizations consider pleasure a desired quality – while the "female genital mutilation" is aimed against the ladies' pleasurable experience. So, while African population proliferates, it is in spite of what the white civilization considers one of the life worths.
And so also you have been living without some qualities, among them you are swallowing Viagra (sponsoring so the farmaceutic industry complex), instead of having some pleasure even while coming to erection. (...if you suppose, erection that important – which is another item or my concept, maybe worth another text...?)
Now, it is evident for us why I maintain the inveterate subtitle of this project "Ethics and Aesthetics of Sexuality". They mean the two perspectives, both present here.
In my opinion we can gather money with the pleasure to sponsor our ethical duties, cannot we?
Yet, it needs to coordinate our abilities. The next essays will be about it.
And now hasten to upload this text, lest I die meanwhile :-)