But slowly and surely he has been formulating an aesthetic genre of his own: art that is impossible to experience without physical revulsion and moral embarrassment.
In a sense, by calling a crime against humanity "banal", she was trying to point to the way in which the crime had become for the criminals accepted, routinised, and implemented without moral revulsion and political indignation and resistance.
I hazard that in Currin's art manifold pleasure disarms revulsion — without eliminating it.
You will never again understand "Hamlet" the same way or think of the brooding prince without a shudder of revulsion.
The water actually looked stippled with the heads of swimmers, and she was usually hypersensitive to that — she could barely even look at a surface that was densely patterned in that way, daubed, striated, without a shiver of revulsion going through her.
For many people, it is no longer possible to read that phrase without a shiver of revulsion, and a mental image of some leering 50-something, inviting drunk 13-year-olds back to his penthouse, or to recall the systematic rape and abuse of hundreds of very young girls in Rochdale – and other areas – by grooming gangs.
I also refuse to believe that anyone in the world could use the term "organic plastic surgeon" without expecting anything but revulsion from the people that hear it.
"Such is the revulsion against detention without charge or trial, such is this country's attachment to habeas corpus, that the right to liberty ordinarily trumps even the interests of national security," he declared this week.
Isn't it astonishing that wealthy parents today continue without any apparent sense of revulsion to abandon their children in boarding prep schools at the age of eight, actively choosing for their kids (holidays excepted) what was a last resort for poor, beleaguered 18th-century mothers?
Instead, Paraphilic Hypersexuals will report testing out or going along with a partner's sexual interests, but neither with the enthusiasm expressed by typical paraphilic men (i.e., paraphilic men without hypersexuality) nor with the revulsion that euphilic (i.e., non-paraphilic) (Cantor, 2012) men would express when confronted with the concept.
