I don't consent to this new era of " sexual McCarthyism " where a mob of " victims " -real or imagined - can make ANY sexually active male - gay or straight- LOOK like maniac sex predator- GUILTY by accusation. Was James Levine a " monster " or just a horny homosexual male claiming the prerogatives of " success " - like the late great Liberace ?
For all its excess the 60s-70s Sexual Revolution was healthier than the hypocritical New Puritanism.
In a truly democratic socialist society no male or female will have the power or the resources to prey on-or seduce- any person they find sexually interesting . They will have to play by the rules of a civilized " dating game " in this new EGALITARIAN society . They will have to rely on natural charm and what Darwin called " female sexual selection " Capitalism makes EVERYTHING a commodity- the human soul as much as the human body. It prostitutes the TALENT of millions.
Nobody will have a fortune to live on because of some unhappy sexual experience turned into a public scandal circus. No young male or female is " spoiled goods " because of past sexual abuse. The Catholic Church need not go bankrupt for the sins of a few priests in the wrong " vocation ".
Divorce lawyers and happy-or unhappy- hookers will be out of business. Human sexuality will not be so warped. Chastity and innocence will not be so rare .
The human energy invested in the legal porn industry can be sublimated into a higher cultural activity . Only rarely does porn rise to the level of ART .
The public humiliation and destruction of Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine
5 December 2017
The decision by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to suspend James Levine, its longtime musical director (1976-2016), from any further conducting engagements is the latest victory for the New York Times and the champions of the new repression. The sexual misconduct campaign in the US is metastasizing and in its reactionary sweep and recklessness borrowing elements from the McCarthyite purges of the 1950s, the New England witch trials of the 1690s and even the Inquisition of the late Middle Ages.
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