PHIL 2P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foreplay, Group Sex
19 Mar 2018
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Someone who is sexually aroused experiences the world differently than someone who is not because sexual arousal brings new phenomena to one"s attention and fades other phenomena; minor things become major while major things may become minor. A person"s system of relevances (coined by schutz) changes with arousal. We are not equally interested in every aspect of everyday reality. Our interest selectively organizes aspects in major and minor relevance. This relevance system can be used to compare and separate our everyday and erotic realities. A shift from everyday to erotic reality is a lascivious shift in relevances in the time, spatial, social and physical dimensions which one organizes the world. Perceptual distortions can generate (turn ons) or negate (turn offs) the dimension. Sex is an interruption in the time flow of everyday life. Involvement is confined to the act itself, as those who are preoccupied with other events are not fully in erotic reality.
