Chapter 17 4. It’s Eve, but it’s a Sphinx——Chinese Sex Apocalypse

In their hearts, half-aged women actually like to read love novels just like girls.It's just that I don't like reading novels where the main character is a girl.Girls taste love indirectly from love novels.For them to read, there are many love novels with them as the main characters, or with them a few years later as the main characters.Batch by batch are rushing to print in the printing factory.They can't read it every day.Their fantasies of romantic love are followed by fantasies of a good marriage. But what half-aged women and half-aged men dream about in their hearts is directly extramarital affairs.

Because they and they are mostly married.In their hearts, such women either no longer fantasize about love, or fantasize about extramarital affairs.Once fantasies arise, what kind of love can it be other than extramarital affairs?Even if the result is divorce and remarriage, the "first chapter" must start with an extramarital affair.If the most extensive social survey is conducted among Chinese women aged 35 to 45, if they swear to tell the truth and never tell lies, then the answer may be this-at least half of them have Had extramarital fantasies.Some happen frequently, some happen occasionally.Some are induced by external factors, such as after reading romantic novels or watching similar movies and TV series.Some can also occur without any external incentives, such as when you are trapped in loneliness and loneliness.

Among them, women between the ages of 40 and 45 fantasize more often.Because women in their 30s are unwilling to just indulge in fantasy.After several fantasies, it will accumulate into active behavior.For women aged 40 to 45, it is not easy to take the initiative because of family, children, age, and opportunities are difficult to find.Even if extramarital affairs do happen, they are often passive roles. Among them, educated women are the main ones, but they are not limited to the level of education. As for the fantasies of romantic love outside marriage, a woman with only a third to fourth grade of elementary school education is by no means inferior to a woman with a university education or a woman with a master's degree or a doctor's degree, or even worse.Primary education teaches people the ability to imagine, and higher education teaches people the ability to think.And thought is the "natural enemy" of fantasy, just as the ladybug is the natural enemy of the aphid.Extramarital fantasy is one of the traditional consciousness games of middle-class women.

From 1949 to the 1970s, China not only eliminated the bourgeoisie, but also transformed the middle class.So there are almost no middle-class women to speak of, only working women, housewives, and educated women, collectively referred to as "revolutionary women." "Revolutionary women" means women who only have "revolutionary fantasies" and "revolutionary ideas" in their heads.Erotic fantasies and erotic thoughts are not allowed a place in the mind.It is actually forced into the "prison" of physiological instincts, and is occasionally treated secretly by women, slipping into the psychological space to "let the air go".If a woman often has erotic fantasies in her mind, and thus generates erotic thoughts that are contrary to "revolutionary fantasies" and "revolutionary thoughts", especially not only in her own mind, but also exposed, announced to others, and spread For others, then she is a woman with "bad consciousness".If a married woman dared to say that she had extramarital fantasies in her head, she would definitely be recognized as a bad woman.When I was an educated youth, in my company, there was a female educated youth lying still during lunch break, and the close girlfriend next to her asked her why she couldn't sleep?Are you homesick?She said no.After repeated questioning with concern, I told the truth.Said he wanted a man.At this time, if there is a man lying beside him, you can snuggle into the arms of a man, whether it is a husband or not, how comfortable, how happy, how wonderful, how wonderful!The girlfriend reported her "ugly" thoughts to the company.So a company-wide criticism meeting was held, which lasted for three days.Men and women educated youth, everyone spoke enthusiastically.It can be described as impassioned and verbal criticism.The regiment's "Political and Ideological Working Group" issued a "Political and Ideological Work Briefing" to each company. The "briefing" issued a stern warning—"Isn't ideological and political work strictly enforced? Can it be done once it is relaxed?"

I was also one of the critics at the time.Back then, I really thought the ideology of that female educated youth was "ugly".This incident was also published in the "Bingtuan Warrior Daily". In the "Column Critical Articles", the first, second and third prizes of the "Excellent Critical Articles" of that year were also selected. The "Revolutionary Model Opera" and "Ode to the Dragon River" of that year can also best illustrate the problem from the distorted nature of literature and art. Jiang Shuiying, the No. 1 "heroine" in "Ode to the Dragon River", has no husband, no children, and of course it is impossible to have any lover.But on the door of her house, after all, there is still a plaque with the four characters "Glorious Military Members" written on it.When Fang Haizhen arrived in the middle of the country, not only did she have no husband, no children, she didn't even have a plaque of "Glorious Army Members".Fang Haizhen on the stage looks to be in her forties.Not much younger than Francesca in "The Bridge of Madison County".Whether Fang Haizhen or Jiang Shuiying, there is only the "string" of "class struggle" in their minds, without the slightest sense of femininity.There is only work in the content of life, only the responsibility to teach others, and there is no love content at all.If it is said that they also embody love and affection heavily, it is only patriotic love, love of duty, comradeship, and class affection.In a word, they seem to be neutral people who have completely taken out the love between men and women and their sexual instincts, rather than real women.Another "revolutionary model play", "Cuckoo Mountain", was an award-winning play in the National Modern Drama Festival in the early 1960s.Ke Xiang, the representative of the female party in the original play, and Lei Gang, the leader of the peasant armed forces who resisted the exploitation and oppression of the landlord class, originally had a love relationship based on the "common revolutionary goal".However, even the relationship of "revolutionary love" established on this "revolutionary foundation" is prohibited in "revolutionary literature and art".Therefore, in the "model play" that was later adapted, the love relationship was cut off as a matter of course.

In the first few years after the end of the "Cultural Revolution", the theme of love was still a "forbidden zone" in literature and art."Love, Never Forget" by Zhang Jie is probably the first novel to reflect the theme of extramarital affairs.Its advent caused a lot of repercussions across the country, causing a moderate disturbance, so that the All-China Women's Federation also participated in disputes between right and wrong. But today, after only ten years of evolution, love, lust, and sex in Chinese literature and art have almost penetrated to the point of pervasiveness, and have become nothing more than a kind of "condiment".Therefore, there is such a concluding sentence: "The drama is not enough, love to make it up." Such a concluding sentence actually contains obvious critical elements.Criticism comes from readers, from viewers, from fiction critics and film and television critics.Even novelists and screenwriters laughed at themselves and joked with each other with these words.It seems helpless, it seems to be at ease, and it seems to be justified.Love, lust, and sex, especially in novels and movies, tend more and more vulgar, obscene, ugly, naturalistic (bad naturalism), less and less holy, and even less dignified.It was as if someone was yearning for a certain kind of brocade because of its high price, but he didn't dare to buy it at all, and even took a detour when he passed the cloth shop.Not only did they buy clothes to make, but they also made pants to make vests, insoles to make socks, bed sheets to make tablecloths, and after a few days of freshness, they simply made rags to make mops.Almost all novels have love, lust, and sex, but they lack thoughts about love, poetry about lust, and beauty about sex.Moreover, in many books, the protagonists who love each other between men and women are obviously getting younger and younger.From more than 30 years old to more than 20 years old, and boys and girls.The love stories of the latter are classified as "youth novels" or "youth movies" in the West, but they seem to have become "mainstream" love stories in China, which are both frivolous and superficial.In some of our "youth novels" and "youth movies", love is expressed casually, casually, like a game.This may be very realistic, but it loses the meaning of literature and art to reality.And this kind of meaning was originally one of the essences of literature and art.The theme of love does not necessarily have or only allow beautiful flowers to bloom.Reality can often breed extreme ugliness and extreme evil.There are quite a few such literary masterpieces, such as Balzac's "The Woman Who Stirs the Water" and Zola's "Nana". The critical consciousness in these masterpieces is obvious.As Zola declared before starting to create "Nana" - unswervingly revealing the ugliness and ulcers in life. There is no love in the book "Nana", but only scenes of perverted lust and animal-like sexual impulses.It is the most "dirty" one of the western classical novels I have read, but it has never made me doubt the special existence of Zola's literary status in the history of French literature.And among contemporary Chinese writers, there are quite a few people who wish to write everything one after another.It seems that that kind of writing is long outdated.And of course great value too.If you take out the lust and the sexual part of it, it's not.Of course I have read it, and it always has "poetry to prove it" after every description of stark lust and sex.And those "poems", almost all of which were extremely clumsy, were simply repeated afterwards.The same words, phrases, and sentences are used over and over again, just like watching a TV series today and inserting the same advertisement from time to time.Our modern and contemporary critics, for unknown reasons and based on what kind of psychology, are almost all repeating the same argument from generation to generation, insisting that it is a "novel of condemnation" and "a novel of exposure". ", "Criticism of realist novels", as if the spirit of critical realism in Chinese novels was inherited from Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng.Judging from the endings of the men and women, it seems that none of them have a good ending, but this does not mean "condemnation", "exposure", or "criticism". People's "warning" Bale.At the highest evaluation, it is just a novel with a bit of "persuading the world".The "condemnation", the "exposure", and the "criticism" were actually read out by ourselves, and they were actually imposed on Xiaoxiaosheng by ourselves.Rather, his admiration for Ximen Qing's polygamous sex life, and his appreciation and enjoyment of the various eighth-level craftsman-like manipulation methods that often rely on drugs and utensils when he makes love with women are simply concealed between the lines. Can't live.According to my opinion, Xiao Xiaosheng is undoubtedly a man with indirect obscenity.He also obtained indirect sexual and physiological pleasure from his writing.As you can imagine, that kind of pleasure is obviously the same as masturbation for Yu Xiaoxiaosheng.Later generations put the crown of "criticism" and "condemnation" on his head, which really means a kind of ambiguity.On the contrary, Japan and the West have more frank evaluations of it. Japan regards it as China's first "sexual novel".

Some people in contemporary Japan who specialize in writing "sensuality novels" are often ashamed of themselves.Many of them are not shy in admitting that they have benefited a lot from Chinese literature in their sensual descriptions and developments of sex, satisfying the imagination of readers' sensual pleasure.As far as I know, in the West, it is regarded as China's first "greatest", "extremely naturalistic" and "unprecedented" "sex novel".Only then did the comment get to the point.It is fundamentally different from "Nana".There is also an essential difference between Xiaoxiaosheng and Zola.In contemporary Chinese novels, sex is almost only a sensual shell, and there is almost no human soul in this shell.

Extramarital affairs are the most frequent fantasy games of all middle-aged middle-aged women.This is almost hereditary privilege of consciousness.This privilege definitely does not belong to middle-aged women who are at the bottom of social material life. Speaking of the common extramarital fantasies of middle-class middle-aged women, it is a bit difficult for a man to talk about, and it is often more difficult to talk about than middle-class middle-aged women. The embarrassment I am facing at this time is just like this .I have absolutely no hostility or sarcasm towards middle-class middle-aged women.On the contrary, I often, with the tender heart of a man, attend to their growth and existence as to all new things around me.In the past ten years, a group of middle-class women with "Chinese characteristics" has grown up.From this we can further conclude that the middle class is quietly forming in China.This is undoubtedly a major achievement of reform and opening up, and it proves that more people have been "lifted out of poverty" in China.And, without humility, I am part of this quietly forming class.It's just that the tail end of my emotions still hangs in the class I came from, and I'm not willing to be nurtured and assimilated by certain characteristics of this class; it's just that I'm not a woman of this class; It's just that I've always had a certain insurmountable distaste for some of its class features.Really, I sometimes hate a woman with obvious middle-class features more than catkins.In the spring, before the willows have sprouted new green leaves, it is very unpleasant to see catkins fluttering and falling on people's bodies and hair.Especially the screen windows that are full of people's homes. If the screen windows are not cleaned thoroughly, the ventilation will not be smooth, and they will not be able to function as screen windows.The obvious characteristics of the middle class, coupled with obvious Chinese characteristics, if you have a little sociological knowledge, imagine how sour it will make women?The scene of catkins falling all over the screen window often reminds me of the situation where the grooves of the human brain are full of dust.

I repeat, I have absolutely no animosity toward middle-class, middle-aged women, just a little distaste sometimes, but a perfectly tolerable dislike.Just as I have never gritted my teeth on catkins.In the final analysis, the main thing I dislike about them is probably only their self-satisfaction after becoming middle-class women and the kind of mumbling that they cannot become middle-class women, as well as the appearance of turning a blind eye to the heavy burdens of working women.They often say a few ambiguous words that violate social conscience and justice. They often think that the society will be much better if they produce a series of cheap cosmetics.

So they were first moved to tears by their fantasies, hopes and expectations. And it is at this point that I somewhat sympathize with and understand them. Because they are many of the happiest housewives in China.Most of them, who married their husbands back then, may have almost no choice, hastily and resignedly married a certain man just because they had to.That man may just be a "second-class" man in some important respects.including sexual performance.Even if they "seize the opportunity" and get rich first, become middle-class men or even "big money" in the concept of economics, and "promote" them to become middle-class women or even "big money" wives, they still Still hopelessly "inferior" men in some important respects.Although China's middle class is quietly forming, the fact is that its quality is very poor, which is determined by rather deformed Chinese characteristics.Many of them have a marriage relationship with their husbands, more like business partners.Even if they were excellent in many aspects, the excellence in many aspects was quickly offset by the vulgarity of poor-quality middle-class men with Chinese characteristics.Some of them thought it was all right, but there was something else stirring about them, someone, or rather, another woman inside them, who fantasized about "being picked up and taken away by a man, of course, A powerful force that strips away layers of skin", and often fantasizes about "making love for a long time with a being that is half human and half other".

In China, where "foreign goods" are extremely admired, love first lifts the tastes of middle-aged Chinese middle-class women.