Indeed, autoeroticism, when practiced in moderation, does not cause any noticeable harm (Ehrenfels 1907, 61), and both autoeroticism and homosexual relationships among females, being the passive sex, would not be as harmful as among men, and can hence be considered as lighter transgressions (Ehrenfels 1907, 16).
Or was it, as he put it, just aestheticized "autoeroticism"?
Autolatry is the religion of the age, autoeroticism its romance, autocide the freedom we cry out for.
And practice, practice, practice.
Mr. Malandain, using the Nijinsky title, also succeeds here, mainly because his twist on male autoeroticism harks back to the original theme and has an outlandish wit.
Soft-core autoeroticism (no genitals are displayed) is about as compelling a screen spectacle as the sight of someone going to the bathroom.
By his own admission, Tennessee Williams was a hysteric; his oeuvre is perhaps the world's greatest testament to the hysteric's autoeroticism.
Later Freud would contend that even before that moment, the child can treat its own body as such an object, going beyond undifferentiated autoeroticism to a narcissistic love for the self as such.
"It requires practice, practice, practice.
So someone put "enjoys autoeroticism" as your Facebook status when you left your laptop unattended – it hardly carries the same tragic-comedic potential as the challenges of modern womanhood.
Ariana replied, "Practice, practice and more practice".
