Giving the Finger

Turning Vulgar into Remedy

Among the many forms of expression, the sight of giving the finger is certainly most curious. In mystic application, giving the finger to a man must pay him a high compliment as the insertion of the mid-finger into the rectum is a tremendous source of pleasure in a man. It unites the great opposing natures in a single touch that brings together the gaping sense of obligatory divide that we experience daily in the world.

What can I say? Its body physiology and its relation to the working of the mind that is obliged by its working to separate and view each in a different and independent way. It takes a heavy toll on the body and … will over a period of time cause an aberration to our views of sex … and in some cases draw the experiences of anima styled penetration from the back.

The division and our lives of duality are a natural fact of life. In such an experience one expects that nature itself will bring some relief to us for the prolonged feelings of separation we experience in a mind based physical orientation to the world. And in some ways nature does that … that early morning scratch takes the sustained sense of feel good to other places. And the toilet habit of course … promises the charm of a ' Charmin ' to the ring around the rectum. Then of course there's the piles suppository …

Indic Ayurveda, a medical and health treatise that dates back about 3,000 years provides many benefits for the hygiene of the body, the humors, skin tissue and the esoteric nature of human energies. In noticing the prevalence of homosexuality in the early years, the texts recommended yogic asanas ( exercises ) as a way of closing the gap on the rectum and bringing it to touch its opposite side through the many postures of the body.

The effect is the same as bringing the mid finger to the ring area and to apply it with a moisturizer as a way to keep it moist and to experience the touch. It improves on the experience for the individual to commence a ritual of bending forward double when taking a dump to clear it as completely as possible. To a man it preserves a little his habituated dignity and avoids the same sex possibility of relations that risks cultivating an attitude of domination while providing a balm for other angst of desires.

The ' finger on the ring,' to coin a phrase … not to be mistaken with other rings on fingers ... produces a response all the way up the nerve centers in the tower of cakras and for a brief moment produces relief. Its dependent on lifestyles and may not be for everybody but its a viable completion of the experience that our bodies are beautiful first to us … and then to the person we come to share a sexual experience.

A North Korean sculpture has a person running behind another with the apparent view to insert his finger up the other person's rectum. Art? Or Science? I wonder. But it does bring a new response to someone who gives the finger to someone else in the expression of the vulgar genre … is that a promise? This is not so strange as the heady experience I've been having the last eight years about American lexicography and the ancient world of cultures and esoterism. I swear its like finding a drinking pal who shared the toiletry with you in some misty forgotten past.

Well that's it for me. Each time I bring out something like this to share I feel like Archimedes running down the streets of Athens in the nude. To borrow an expression from the movies …' I'm getting too old for this kind of s**t.'