{"id":578,"date":"2005-12-15T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2005-12-15T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T22:45:00","slug":"578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

A reason for poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artistic and creative types do have more sex, a British survey suggests<\/a>. (Is it really speaking only of men, as all the examples suggest?)<\/p>\n

Promiscuous Picasso, Lord Byron the philanderer, Dylan Thomas the boozy womaniser: these were not simply bonking Bohemians, it seems, but artists doing what their genes told them to do. According to the researchers the greater the artistic endeavour, the larger the sexual appetites. (There are some obvious exceptions to this rule: Julio Iglesias once boasted that he had had sex with 3,000 women, but has never yet sung a decent song.) <\/em><\/p>\n

Well, of course. This explains why high-school literary magazines survive. It’s not the quality of the writing, but the fact that one is a writer. Ditto garage bands and more.<\/p>\n

In the political realm, meanwhile, say the authors<\/a> of Nation of Rebels<\/em><\/a>, art and coolness become a substitute for, y’know, actually knowing something about economics and politics.<\/p>\n

Heath and Potter criticize such theorists as Michel Foucault and Theodore Roszak. Under their influence, “Traditional leftist concerns, such as poverty, living standards and access to medical care, came to be seen as ‘superficial,’\u2026[compared to] ‘the psychic liberation of the oppressed.'” The boring old Left never stood a chance against the new one: “Doing guerilla theater, playing in a band, making avant-garde art, taking drugs and having lots of wild sex certainly beat union organization as a way to spend the weekend.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Both links via Arts and Letters Daily<\/a>. Tags: Sex<\/a>, Lifestyle Left<\/a>, Art<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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