Chapter Four

SEX

John St. John

The location of the vagina on the human female is unique among primates.
Unlike the other apes it is tilted toward the front. Human sex is generally consumated in a face-to-face position. Tropical islanders called this the "Missionary position" indicating that the missionaries were not so prudish as they were supposed to be. It also lets us know that the natives had reverted.

There is only one answer to the puzzle of how this organ changed position.
During the ice-age early Man wore a long fur garment cinched at the waist.
The freezing climate mandated that it be worn at all times. Sex had to be a very consensual affair under these conditions. Much cooperation was needed to perform the act. Love conquers all and the female must have opened her garment at the front and laid on her back with her knees pressed close to her chest. The fur coat of the male covered them both during the mating. Danger from predators and competition from other males made it a quickie. Those females who could not perform this feat were not impregnated while their more athletic sisters were. Over time this must have resulted in the odd position of the vagina.

Anthropology attributes the change in position of the vagina to our upright posture. If this is so it must have happened suddenly because the poor organ swung past its gravitational point in the middle to the other side. Desmond Morris in his "Naked Ape" made some sense when he stated that the large breasts of the human female looked like buttocks and were a secondary sexual characteristic. Surely when the business was being conducted out front, the equipment would not remain in the back of the store. Cold weather also resulted in the female having a layer of cold protective fat that the males did not have. It seems reasonable that females would have to expose themselves to the cold in order to obtain sex.

The reality of human sexuality and the practice of a sexually obsessed culture are poles apart. This unholy divergence can be traced to the denial of our genuine sexual nature by psychology and cultural anthropology. They essentially deny that we are mammals. Any comparative study of mammal sexuality would reveal that all mammals have a similar sexual style. Humans cannot be the only exceptions. The violation of the cyclic nature of human reproductive activity is the cause for the subjugation of women and the unnatural preoccupation with sex on the part of just about everyone. Mammalian sexuality is invariably periodic. Human sexuality is periodic also.

An investigation of the sexuality of a hunting and gathering tribe would reveal that it differs little from the primate model. Comparing these normal healthy standards with perverse licence on one hand and prudish strictures on the other, it is obvious that something has gone wrong since the advent of civilization.

In every mammal normal female sexuality is periodic. There is a time for everything and no self respecting dog will try to mate with a bitch that is not in heat. Sexologists teach their patients to become method actors in a pornographic ritual in order to "hold their man." If the post-civilization female is available for sex at all times it is bcause she has been trained. One-man-one wife mandates this perversion. The Victorian opinion was that women should not enjoy sex at all but must submit to the indignity as a duty. The anthropological dictum that human females ovulate secretly is nonsense. I will submit to an experiment: Put twenty females in a large room, five of whom are ovulating, and I will bet I can pick out the ladies who are ready.

The modern female being treated by Dr. Ruth for frigidity is probably the only normal factor in the equation. Expecting sex from a female that is not in estrus is a personal violation. At the same time the male is continually stimulated by a female culture that relys on cosmetics, perfume, and dress to reinforce an image of false availability. The result of this grooming procedure is to imitate estrus in order to enhance the value of the individual female. Perfumes contain musk to imitate the odor of the female in heat and lipstick and rouge mimic the flush of arousal. In addition males are assaulted on every level with playboy magazines and commercials that use female flesh to sell their products and explicit and implicit sex in movies.

A young advertising executive is going down the elevator of the Time and Life building after his days work. He is surrounded by young women in this enclosed space. Some of them are in heat. Still he maintains his professional demeanor. If he ever forgot it he would probably be kicked to death before the elevator reached the lobby. On the commute to Connecticut he is riding behind a young female who is giving off the perfume of estrus.
When he arrives and is picked up by his wife in the station wagon he is already horney. At home he immediately throws his wife on the carpet and rapes her. Grounds for divorce? Certainly! We have a nation of sexually obsessed neurotics but somehow our psychologists haven't noticed it. There are numerous reported instances of lawyers having sex with clients, doctors with patients, and priests with choir-boys. The incidence of rape has never been higher and no one seems to know why. Cocaine as a drug has become popular because it is used as the dentist uses novocain . . . to deaden the sensation of pain in a tooth. Cocaine deadens the sensitive penis and labia areas in order to prolong the sex act. Taken internally it causes sexual excitement. The combination results in a long lasting intense experience.

The social scientists have abdicated responsibility in this arena as they have in many others. They even see it as a healthy situation. If the universities can not dedicate themselves to a resolution of this problem then Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority will take care of it. The problem with this solution is that they will also take care of scientific progress by insisting that the bible is the source of all knowledge. It would be well for the universities to be leading the coming backlash. If they do not . . .
they could find themselves teaching Sunday school.

A genuinely scientific popularization of the true nature of human sexuality would not only provide a base for a solution to the problem but would initiate a moral leadership based on reason. Moral leaderhip should not be left to religious sects. Its importance should be recognized by the intelligentsia and they should provide the rational alternatives available.
At present this cannot be done because the universities have a false perception of the genuine nature of Man. This leaves all of the professionals charged with maintaining order in the hopeless position they are in. The sex insanity is caused by moral breakdown as a result of allowing the jungle of commerce to make money by perverting our tribespeople. Given the cultural influence of these pimps it is a wonder that people are not more immoral than they are.

Stone age people were not overly preoccupied with sex. It was no big thing to a dedicated hunter and warrior. It happens when a female in estrus becomes a wanton and lasts until she is impregnated. This is the point at which male sexual aggression is initiated. The testosterone driven male uses his virility in the war dance and in the hunt. The periodicity of sex is respected as it is with any other animal in nature. In the Army or Navy Men are without women for long periods of time and it does not seem to affect them. At the same time they are not stimulated and pandered to by the many faceted intrigues of women, and the people who exploit them.

The "rhythm system" of birth control advocated by the Catholic Church is an example of the kind of thinking that propagates a sexual perversion. The woman is advised to keep track of those periods when she is in heat and avoid sex. She is encouraged to have sex during the time-period when nature and God say that she should not. Not only is it ineffective but it furthers her role as a plaything for a man. In a natural tribe the men do not sleep with women. They keep apart from the women. The women and children all sleep in the same area. When a boy child becomes a man he is given to the men. That is the reason for rites of passage like the Bar Mitzvah. A rite of passage insures they continued separation of the sexes. There is no other reason for it. In the modern Jewish community it is a holdover from a time before the Hebrews became pastoralists. It still serves the purpose of separating the child from the mother, and in inculcating manly virtues.

It must seem at this point that the process of backing up the tape of centuries of conduct is a hopeless proposition. It would be interesting, however, to see how a popularization of this understanding would affect a populace that has become aware of the true nature of what they are doing. Perhaps they would initiate new social structures that would bring some order into the anarchy of modern life. The further progress of technology seems to dissipate social conventions developed to make a property oriented society work. The family is taking a beating as an economic unit, and new affiliations based on the availability of technology are coming to the fore. Just as the vacuum cleaner, washer and dryer, and microwave have made the keeping of servants a thing of the past. The "relationship," or pro-tem sharing of living quarters without the bother of marriage is a product of technology. The demand for government aid in the area of child-care indicates that the future of child rearing is changing. Children raised in the social atmosphere of child care centers by professionals might become the citizens of the future.

Anthropology's view of the family is fundamentally racist and certainly ethnocentric. Human society is not rooted in the trinity; father, mother, and child, nor is this unit an Aryan invention. It is certain that the early Aryan tribes were not fundamentally different from the Masai in their social arrangements.

Why is it that I ever dream

of places I have never seen

of moonlit mountains in the mist

of soft lips I have never kissed?
 

Don't leave me now . . .

the morn has come

the sweet dream of your face

is gone, and I wake in another place
 

Could it be that somewhere else

another dreamer mountain born,

begins the nightmare of my day

whisked from her side like a flower torn?

         st.john
 
 

Sex Secrets

My sex life has been interesting. I have been lucky . . . but luck has less to do with sex than you might imagine. My good fortune can be attributed to the fact that I had a hunter's nose. Raised in Michigan I got a new double-barreled shot-gun on my fourteenth birthday. It went in the gun cabinet with my twenty two and when I got older was supplemented by a Remington 726 caliber 30/06. I spent a lot of my young manhood as a hunter and WWll infantryman. What has this to do with sex? It developed my nose! When my pointer stood braced over a pheasant I could smell that bird. Many times I located a rabbit or a deer by getting a whiff of them. German infantry smells like rancid bacon and sweaty feet . . . It is the boots they wear.

After the war I went hunting with friends in the upper peninsula of Michigan. One of these Nimrods took his wife's soiled sanitary napkin as a bait for deer. The lovelorn buck would come to the odor of menstrual fluid and get a silver tip slug for his ardor. Undoubtedly when my friend went hunting he had left his wife in need of his services. Probably an animal loving neighbor was putting a rack of horns on my hunting companion bigger than those on a buck deer.

I could always smell the women in the supermarket or just passing by on the street and tell you which one was in heat. It is a sweet musk that takes your mind away. Experimentally I would flirt a little and never failed to get an inviting glance. At a dance I would go from partner to partner until one of these fascinating creatures had "the smell." My men friends could never figure out my secret and I did not tell them. Now because I have had my prostate removed and am retired from the lover business . . . I leave my secret to the world.

Perhaps hunting led to this book. Never . . . (not counting the big spiritual awakening) have I been happier nor more serene than when I was flopping through powder snow on bear-claw snowshoes with a shotgun under my arm and two hounds shrieking in the hills. My mind was the blank page that a Yogi strives for. Any hunter will testify to the atavistic pleasure of the chase.

As I mentioned earlier in the book: Stone age tribespeople had no idea that sex resulted in babies. The Australian Aborigine credits walking under a sacred waterfall for causing pregnancy. This ignorance resulted in incest. The problem of deformed births was solved by the mother promptly killing the child. Incest and infanticied eliminated recessive genes in the primitive. Since the invention of monogamy the blood of modern Man is contaminated with recessives leading to many mal-formed births in people who have married exogamously with widely differing ancestries. Technology might even have an answer for this problem as gene manipulation is here.

Technology will provide the final solutions either for good or for evil.