Sex and the Intelligent Teenager by Colin Wilson

Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Education, Sex, Non-Fiction, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9780946650606
Google: DPh4QgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0946650608
Publisher: Paupers' Press
Published: 1966-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

The ‘Great Lovers’

‘For ever, in spite of laws, in spite of clothes, the male’s eyes issue craving to a woman like a reptile.’ This is a fine image; presumably what Barbusse means is that all men—at all events, all young and healthy men—would like to ‘hypnotise’ women as a snake hypnotises a bird. And in fact there must be few men who do not envy the Sultan who can turn to his Grand Vizier when he sees a pretty girl, and say: ‘Bring her to my palace tonight!’

But would this actually make a man’s sex-life perfect? Obviously not, for a dozen reasons. First, a sultan would get as bored with his harem as a librarian gets with books. What the sultan would like to experience, over and over again, would be the feelings of a young man in love for the first time, who knows that his mistress is willing to give herself to him completely. After a few weeks, a harem full of women would be no more exciting than a shed full of cows.

What gradually dawns on anybody who has the brains to go deeply into this problem is that the need for ‘all women’ is a cheat, a trick. Let us see if we can get some idea of how the trick is done.

Let us take a look at some of the world’s so-called ‘great lovers’, and find out exactly what they got out of life.

First of all, take Casanova, whose name is a synonym for sexual promiscuity.

Jacques Casanova, who liked to give himself high-sounding titles, was actually the son of a dissolute actor married to the daughter of a shoemaker. He was born in 1725 in Venice, which, in those days, was one of the most profligate and fascinating cities in the world. His father died after presenting his wife with six children, of whom Jacques was the eldest. The mother went on the stage herself, so Jacques grew up virtually without parental control, in the care of a grandmother.

Somehow or other, he acquired an education—he was highly intelligent, and people enjoyed teaching him things. He grew up into an ugly, well-built man with the complexion of a gypsy, beady eyes like a bird, a long, thin nose and a sensual mouth. He was very tall—well over six feet (it must be remembered that people were much shorter in those days—five foot six was the average height for a man).

The only respectable profession that was open to a man without money was the Church; so Casanova decided to become an abbé. He had been constantly in love since the age of ten—always innocently—but this did not worry him. He was a cheerful and likeable young rogue.

When he was sixteen he fell in love with a girl called Angela, but she did not find him particularly attractive. Angela had two friends, Nanette and Marton, and they agreed to help Casanova to win her. Casanova used to come to supper at their house, and after supper he would say goodnight, and apparently leave.

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