/lit/ - Literature

>>6194731
I once had the idea, why do we attach the label "adult" to things that are dirty, pornographic, obscene? And why are breasts exceptionally dirty and obscene. It seems to me that, like the nicotine or alcohol "addict" who feels that he is sinning by consuming these things, and enjoys the transgression, he equally gains pleasure from the self-mortification of "going clean" i.e., going through withdrawal. Everyone cheers him on, a month now without cigarettes, congratulations! You did a bad thing, while it was good, now you're doing a good thing. My point is that, and I know much has been said about contemporary American culture, one of the mainstays of this culture is that of arbitrary prohibitions and the pleasure in breaking them, and not only that! but it's an open secret that you are allowed to break the rules, ONLY if don't get caught. Americans like to make rules, restrict freedom for everyone, but they also need these rules so they can have the pleasure of breaking them. It feels like Protestant ideological forms surviving as some sick remnant in society