Lenin and Sex

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Fri Sep 7 14:27:02 PDT 2001


obviously someone who hasn't seen "tampopo," "babette's feast," or even perhaps "eat, drink, man, woman."

food, glorious food!* ;-)

j

* yes, i'm aware of the irony of this allusion. thanks.


> From: Kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:21:55 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com, lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Lenin and Sex
>
> At 01:22 PM 9/7/01 -0700, Thomas Seay wrote:
>> Leo wrote:
>> <<I also find somewhat interesting this notion of
>> 'having sex,' as if it were
>> a meal someone sat down to>>
>>
>> Well, you know the anecdote about Lenin and
>> Allesandra Kolonntai. At a meeting, the question of
>> the proleterian attitude towards sex came up.
>>
>> Kolonntai argued that having sex should be like
>> drinking water. To which Lenin replied, "Yes,
>> but that does not mean that everone should drink from
>> the same glass."
>>
>>
>> -Thomas
>
>
> consider, of course, all that's involved in getting to the point where one
> imagines that having a meal is a passive activity to begin with.
>
> geez.
>
>
> kelley
>



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