That first naked glory

Brian Rothery is developing this idea both in book form and in the evolution of this web site.

Brian has had 19 books published through major US and UK publishers, some of which went into 16 translations (Check him out on Amazon).

Brian Rothery describes the book

The main theme is that humankind is suffering from a great separation between its deliberate or rational nature and its instinctive and spontaneous nature. The British philosopher, Lancelot Law Whyte, called it ‘dissociation’, in the sense of a break or a lesion. Richard Wagner also acknowledged it in his final work, Parsifal. It is at the root of many of today’s obsessions and is bringing much grief to individuals and society.

It is expressed chiefly through human sexuality which today also exhibits an exaggerated form of the more general dissociation or dualism by being criminalized at the same time as we are all being increasingly eroticized. In the forty years since Lancelot Law Whyte died, the obsessions and social distortions he feared from the dualism have worsened. I have selected human sexuality as the major human issue where the dualism can be both examined and dealt with. Whyte recommended this approach but did not follow it through.

Because of my journalism and activism in this area, I have become the coordinator of the British Operation Ore class action against the police and prosecution service. Operation Ore affected thousands of British men and their families and was an FBI-inspired spin-off from the infamous Landslide case. It now appears that of the thousands ruined in dawn raids, some of whom committed suicide, most, if not virtually all, were victims of credit card fraud. The class action will shortly be in the courts and upon its success it will spread to Canada, Australia and Ireland, all of which were also affected by similar Landslide-inspired campaigns, although Great Britain was the worst affected by far. Ironically, America was least affected. I was not the subject of any of these raids, but had a journalistic interest in what was going on. Over the years since, I have received a first hand insight into the ruin and devastation caused by the moral panic of sex abuse and its accompanying inquisition. I sought many explanations and finally came up with the dissociation as expressed in this book.

The distortion is not just bringing pain and ruin to many individuals and their families, and extending now even to the criminalization of juveniles and children in America, but is being used by an industry of self-created and self-qualified professionals, not just in support of a society based on the very concept of the dissociation, but as a newly created arm of a police state. Historically, we tend to refer to an extreme phase of the expression of the distortion as an inquisition or state of persecution, but few dare to criticize it while it is still underway.

One of its main affects has been the criminalization of erotic beauty and its inclusion under the label of ‘pornography’. Erotic beauty itself has a sensitive and complex relationship with the dualism and it also reflects a fundamental drive of humankind, but it also is causing misery for millions while being publicly ignored, lied about, treated with disingenuousness or used for the abuse of others. Sometimes even its very existence is denied. Within the book a general tendency in relation to erotic beauty itself is also studied from ancient times, beginning with the beauty of boys. The tendency in the apparent direction of the search for erotic beauty in our times appears to be moving towards younger women and androgyny. There is also speculation about the differences between women and men in their appreciation of and search for erotic beauty.

Note to publishers

This book has not yet been offered to a publisher so should you be interested please contact the author at WIGO

Read Chapter One online HERE.

Copyright © Brian Rothery

Cover illustration by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick de Clerck in Staatsgalerie Neuburg An der Donau, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen.