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"Birthday Boy" by EazinAlong (incest) 10, 10, 9
"Birthday Boy" by EazinAlong (EazinAlong@aol.com). --- There's this young fellow named Oedipus. He's growing up to be a strong and virile young man. His mother id - I mean is {how's that for a Freudian slip?} - His mother is strongly attracted to him and wants to be his first sexual lover. Her husband (his father) agrees. On Oed's fifteenth birthday, Mom invites Oedipus into their bedroom and lets him watch while she and Dad make passionate love to each other. Then she encourages Oedipus to have his way with her. Anybody who has taken a psych course in college knows about the Oedipus complex, which is based on a mythological story that goes along the general lines described in the previous paragraph. However, in the Greek myth Oedipus, who has just recently slain his father without knowing that it was his father, doesn't know that his lover is his mother until after he has copulated with her; and when he realizes his mistake he rips his eyes out and engages in several other behaviors that seriously disrupt the lives of almost everyone in the kingdom. I dunno - of the two stories, the one with Mommy, Daddy, and Sonny happily whooping it up in the sack isn't the one that would sound most seriously dysfunctional to an objective visitor from Mars. As I have said, everybody knows about the Oedipus complex. Mr. Rogers - the one with the Neighborhood on television - even has a song about it entitled "Someday I'm Going to Marry Mom." However, the Rogerian song has a surprise ending: Mom says that she's already married and that she hopes that someday her son will find someone that he can be as happy with as she and Dad are with each other. Whenever I hear Mr. Rogers sing this song, I have always had the impression that he envisioned Mom as fully dressed and refraining from even remote forms of foreplay. I guess what it boils down to is that essentially all modern psychologists and psychiatrists think that parents who deliberately set their children up for sexual activity are somewhere on the dysfunctional continuum between emotionally disturbed and sociopathic. These psychologists and psychiatrists could be wrong, of course; and I suspect that Gerry Springer could find one or two people who say they are shrinks and who for a fee would regard this behavior as "within the normal range," but that still leaves the problem that American courts view this sort of behavior as illegal. What these experts would probably suggest is to go ahead and encourage the kid to feel comfortable about touching his own sex organs, but to suggest that it's best to play with oneself in private and eventually to develop mature sexual relationships from a perspective of mutual love and respect. They would probably frown on Mom using her own body to demonstrate to a boy how to stimulate a clitoris or for Dad and Sonny to wash each other's testicles to the point of erection while they shower together. But keep in mind that these experts would NOT consider what Mom and Dad do in this story to be any more dysfunctional than what lots of American parents have done: tell the kid that sex is a filthy sin and that he will go blind if he masturbates and to lead him to believe that Mom and Dad sure as hell don't do anything like that. I think there's a happy medium somewhere - probably a fortune teller whose assistant is giving her a mouth job under the tablecloth. Ratings for "Birthday Boy" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 |