Bizarre sex, self-mutilation, 'love of death' becoming increasingly commonplace
Pastor Dale Morgan
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Bizarre sex, self-mutilation, 'love of death' becoming increasingly
commonplace*
Posted: October 31, 2006
Halloween is a time of the bizarre, of make-believe, of the dark and
macabre – all in the spirit of fun, of course.
"But," says David Kupelian, author of the best selling book, "The
Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us
Corruption Disguised as Freedom," "as usual, truth is stranger than
fiction. While Halloween party-goers and 'trick or treaters' dress up to
look 'mutilated' or 'bizarre,' countless Americans are caught up with
real-life mutilation and beyond – outlandish practices stranger and
darker than the most imaginative Halloween costumes."
What sorts of practices?
* First there's sex. Kupelian exposes how "there seem to be neither
boundaries nor taboos anymore when it comes to sex. Anything goes – from
heterosexual to homosexual to bi, trans-, poly-, and
you-don't-want-to-know sexual experiences." One such sexual experience
that pushes the extreme end of the envelope is "bug-chasing." "Very
simply," writes Kupelian, "bug-chasers are people for whom getting
infected with the AIDS virus is the ultimate sexual experience. You
heard it right: The main focus of their lives is to seek out sexual
encounters that will infect them with HIV."
* Body piercing has "progressed from traditional earrings for females,
to earrings for males, to multiple piercings for both males and females
in literally every part of the body – the tongue, nose, eyebrow, lip,
cheek, navel, breasts, genitals – again, things you really don't want to
know."
* Then there's the national epidemic of self-mutilation, or "cutting" as
it is commonly referred to. Countless young Americans, mostly girls,
purposely cut their own bodies with razors and knives to obtain relief
from emotional conflict.
* Tattooing and piercing are just the tip of the "body modification"
iceberg. "Ritual scarification and 3D-art implants are big. So are
genital beading, stretching and cutting, transdermal implants, scrotal
implants, tooth art, and facial sculpture."
* "How about hanging from your skin by hooks?" asks Kupelian "It's
called 'suspension.' In literally any other context, this would be
considered gruesome torture. But to many people who frequent suspension
parties, it's a spiritual experience."
* Tongue-splitting is also considered by some to be a positive,
spiritual experience. According to Body Modification Ezine, a major
online "body mod" site: "The tongue is one of the most immense nervous
structures in your body. We have incredibly fine control over it and we
receive massive feedback from it. When you dramatically alter its
structure and free yourself of the physical boundaries your biology
imposes, in some people it triggers a larger freeing on a spiritual level."
In love with death
Why are so many teens in love with the forbidden and bizarre? Why do
they find it exciting? (As pop star Britney Spears admitted to an
interviewer: "When someone tells me not to do something, I do it, that's
just my rebellious nature.")
Why is American culture becoming more and more bizarre, so that every
day seems like real-life Halloween?
Kupelian argues that America is becoming increasingly a culture in love
with death. "Bug-chasing," suspension, tongue-splitting, radical
piercings and the like allow people to feel that they "are moving, not
toward death, but toward life and greater 'spirituality,' a more unique
and authentic sense of self. Somehow the ritual of pain and mutilation –
or in extreme cases, death – drives out their awareness of inner
conflict, replacing it with an illusion of freedom and selfhood."
"Every parent in America needs to read this book," says author,
columnist and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin. "David Kupelian
skillfully exposes the secular left's rotten-apple peddlers in
devastating detail. From pitching promiscuity as 'freedom' to promoting
abortion as 'choice,' the marketers of evil are always selling you
something destructive – with catastrophic results. Kupelian shines a
light on them all. Now watch the cockroaches run for cover."
"The Marketing of Evil" reveals how much of what Americans once almost
universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold
to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing
on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and
tolerance, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that
which all previous generations since America’s founding regarded as
grossly self-destructive – in a word, evil.