Having admired the score of The Rite of Spring anew – while the incredible 100 years of this CONTEMPORARY composition – and writing about porn in the same time, I reminded my inveterate idea that any human stage-action is a sore, as well. Evidently, I got this thought thanks to the mix that I am a school-leaver of what is now J.Ježek's Conservatoire and that I was invited as a jury member of the contemporary dance competitions, my focus on the music used by the dancers.
After all, the Stravinskij's revolutionary masterpiece is sometimes interpreted in nude – and so, the music is entangled with carnality and even with our drives. So, I hope he is not offended if I dare one stop farther, after the 100 years...?
Besides the action itself, we should never forget that we can categorize the carnal actions according their safety/risky aspect and/or probability of impregnation, or the exclusive pleasure. The pleasure cannot be pursued without the down-to-earth ethical aspects. On the other hand, there are persons who have examined the pleasure on a level comparable with some institute, but their results are focused on earning.
Yet, if the preconditions exclude the fatal consequences, there is no ethical standard which suggests us the our life-style decision whether to prefer pleasure or asceticism. This is the failure of some sexologists who spam us with their (unspoken) presupposition that we hire them to improve our morals. The medicine has its morals and we have our morals. The medical persons are welcome to heal us, to tell us what is better or worse for our health. (Even we, here, are dealers of the sexual safety.) But they are not welcome to proliferate the religious standards, the argument of which is a prophecy, but they do not have any health reason – indeed, they sometimes even intervene the health malignantly. There is also the wide field where we can (or cannot avoid to) choose from some ratio of the health and life-style benefit or detriment: typically, the well-known slogan "with sport to health ...or to chronic disability".
Strange, but the doctors of this ilk are focused (almost exclusively) onto sex, but they do not try to rectify the sport. We even miss some historical tradition of the medicine suggesting the heretics to give up their conviction, since to be burnt by stake is unhealthy – a perfect field on which the medicine could have practised their ability to tune up religion with life-style.
If we return to ballet, it is a typical specimen of the health sacrifice on the altar of art. What is then the difference with the personal decision of a BDSM addict to be whipped to blood, if the adventure and thrill is a value for her/him? Indeed, while the hips of a dancer will never heal, the buttocks are ready for new session after a few days. Where should then focus the doctors firstly?
In 1970s, the results of Masters & Johnson were merging in our teen minds with our contra-communist interest in the Baroque music. With my friend, who is a fan and connoisseur on the Well-Tempered Clavier, we were discussing that there are fugues which follow the male curve of sexual excitement. - Now, we can trace the psychical model of the male sexual behaviour before the more female romanticism. And we can be sure that J.S. Bach had some experience with the partner-life, thanks to his twenty children – though, today, we can find persons who could gather this experience within two weeks, placidly.
As a score operates with some structure of music (= the parts of a composition in time), its facture (= the "picture" of the score), rhythm, dynamism and instrumentation, in a video documenting sex, we can observe just the parallel elements.
That is why, there is but one human psyche with basically one type of excitement and resolution. While the philosophers like Schopenhauer were pondering over the sublimation up to the art, contrary we can contend that there is plenty of music or poetic opus's, but we have forgotten that their prototype is sexual, and therefore not fundamentally psychological and cultural, but rather carnal and irrational. What is irrational, it can enjoy but a little prestige, in the rational civilization – however it can be essential for the life itself. (See H. Bergson: Creative Evolution.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson
This is the main reason why the "music forms" of sex have declined into the most rudimentary shapes. Nevertheless, this simplification cannot falsify the thesis about the common essence of sex and art, esp. the sorts of art which are in time.
Now, we can plan to artificialise sex, even with the help and on the ground-plan of the complex art works. The human psyche is the same for both of these life-spheres.
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