February 1st, 2006 -- by Bacchus
Moby Dick Is Sexy?
Audacia Ray says so:
I’m going to make a bold statement here: a bunch of dudes on a whaling boat is even sexier than a bunch of pirates on a pirate ship. Is it total heresy for me to speak against the undeniable hotness of pirates? Perhaps, but I swear it’s the goddamned truth. I mean, pirates are awesome and wear rad outfits and are swashbucklingly violent and all, but whaling dudes are all butch, they get filthy, their skin gets all tough and leathery, and they thrust their harpoons into the whale again and again, in and out, until its hot quivering flesh is still.
Hmm, I never thought about it quite that way….
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Bah…they’re both plundering something.
Sorry, but I’m not buying. The whale isn’t consenting to being harpooned, so harpooning a whale is more analogous to rape than to hot S&M.
Give the whale a safe word, and how we’re talking…
Now, *THAT* is what I call stretching an analogy….
Yeah… that’s kinda gross — not sexy at all. I don’t think pirates are particularly sexy either. Even Johnny Depp as a pirate wasn’t sexy.
Maybe there’s a reason we don’t see the whaling boat themed porn. And wouldn’t they smell horrible?
Yeah… that’s kinda groos — not sexy at all. I think there’s a reason we don’t see much whaling boat themed porn.
Not that I find pirates sexy either. Wouldn’t they smell horrid? Even Johnny Depp didn’t make pirates sexy.
The whalers do have all those barrels of whale oil close at hand…
To quote an old friend
“Just remember ‘Moby Dick’ is not a social disease”
for the record, I’m a straight guy, and even <i>I</i> thought Johnny Depp as a Pirate was sexy. … but only in the scenes where Keira Knightly wasn’t also present.
so out with ye naysayers! he’s hot! avast!
obviously need to read this part
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Read the Penguin edition of Moby Dick, annotated by Prof. Beaver (Yes!). Because he can’t track ALL the symbols and allusions, he concentrates on the gay themes.
Read Moby Dick and then tell us how many harpoonbers there actually are on a whaling ship to stick harpoons in and out and in and out…
Hate to burst this romantic illusion, but whalers were known for their foul, powerful stench. Stench that surpassed even military in close quarters for months on end. Stench that even surpassed pirate stink. Rancid whale fat for months on end will do that, unfortunately.
Note to jujubee:
“Stench” may just be a scent in the nose of the …er… “beholder”.
Ambergris which comes from whales, is a coveted ingredient in lady’s perfumes.