Mae West: Comic Erotic

An article on pornography (from the viewpoint of an East Indian) mentioned MAE WEST's humor as an example of the comic-erotic.
• • In the opinion of Jug Suraiya: The comic and the erotic make for excellent bedmates; the pornographic is deeply incompatible with both. The pornographic is a four-letter word scrawled on the wall by a semi-literate vandal. The comic-erotic is the same four-letter word, deliberately misspelt as 'FCUK', on a designer T-shirt. The pornographic is the blunt instrument of an exposed erection; the comic-erotic is Mae West's famous line, "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
• • Jug Suraiya explains: The pornographic diminishes and ultimately denies the life force of the sexual impulse; the comic-erotic glorifies it. To use a political analogy, pornography is like a totalitarian state: remorselessly drab, one-dimensional and monochromatic, tolerating no shades of hidden meaning. The comic-erotic — — sexually loaded with double meanings and puns — — is like a rowdy, raucous democracy, full of irrepressible life. ...
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• • Article: "Corn vs Porn"
• • BY: Jug Suraiya
• • Published in: The Times of India — — timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• • Published on: 5 October 2009
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