Sex and Horror

I write "okay" at the beginning of too many sentences. Not what this post is about, but I just did it and it bugged the shit out of me.
Sex. Fucking. Cock sucking, cunt licking, anal, rim jobbing. Bondage, Three-somes, sex with diapers, scat freaks, bestiality. Cheating on your spouse. Cheating with someone else's spouse. Sex with an older man, with an older woman. With a younger man, with a younger woman.
In America your ten year olds can see any number of people murdered on CSI or any cable movie night of the week. Your kids can watch Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees kill any number of men and women in any number of ways on Halloween before they go out trick or treating, but they can not see the two teenagers fucking before they have an a long pipe driven through them.
If Janet Jackson's nipple shows up on television for one tenth of a second this is cause to cancel the Bill of Rights and rescind the Constitution. The religious right, they are fascists by the way not Christians. Christ, who is supposed to be the role model for this group, loved everyone. Would never condone killing or torture. Accepted all of us as God's children. The religious right is a political movement that embraces the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, torture and the death penalty. They are against welfare (helping the poor) even though that is what Christ spent a great deal of his time doing just that.
But I digress. The fact is that in our country, we accept violence but not sex.
Having said that, I will say that I love sex. And I will go further to say, so do you. I know you do. In fact I bet you were thinking about sex just before you read this post. Maybe you were thinking about Janet Jackson's nipple just before reading this post? Maybe you were thinking about sex with Janet Jackson before reading this post? Maybe you still are...
But again I digress.
The fact is that we love sex. It is how we procreate and evolution loves procreation. Look at cockroaches for God's sake.
I have been reading this book of horror/erotica off and on for the last couple of months. I say off and on because I keep it in the car for when I am really desperate for something to read. But it is terrible. Awful. The writing is juvenile (maybe some of you are saying that about this little bit of literary genius right now) and the stories are near unreadable. But she got published. Someone, some agent and some other publisher believed in her. And they published her book of short stories.
I say great. But it is not enough. Sex is where we are most honest. Even if we are honest about the fact that we are lying, we are honest. Sex shows a piece of who we are without pretense. Without mask. It is magic.
I love erotica for that reason. All aspects of human interaction can be seen through sex. The mixture of horror and sex. This would be a potent alchemy. One I want to explore.