The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (Penguin Modern Classics) by William S Burroughs

Author:William S Burroughs [Burroughs, William S]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780141903583
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2012-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Four

Academy 23

Q: Do you think that the creation of a center of practical and theoretical sexual research could help fathom the still-obscure laws of sexuality?

A: Unquestionably. I think in very few years that would lead to a very basic breakthrough…there’s never been any real research. Well, there was a project in St. Louis, Missouri, where they took color pictures of people having sexual intercourse—from 18 to 80—which I presume that nobody can see unless they’re researchers, or something of the sort. They found out very little as far as I can make out.

Q: Is there, in the still very strong opposition against eroticism, in art as in life, a manifestation of the control of consciousness?

A: Oh, unquestionably, it’s the most important point of control. They lose control of that, and they really lose control. And they’re determined not to lose control.

Q: How do you envision the future of relations between men and women?

A: In The Soft Machine: I proposed that the sexes be separated, that all male children be raised by males and all female children be raised by women. The less the two sexes have to do with each other, the better, I think.

Q: Well, then you wouldn’t need women any more, would you, as soon as it was all being done automatically?

A: No, perhaps that’s assuming you could have wombs in bottles, so that there wouldn’t be any need for these women…

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