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Originally Posted by Malady156
Also if you have unusual paraphilias, such as sexual arousal from certain words or types of words, images, or concepts, particularly those having to do with religion or anything supernatural, feel free to unburden yourself here as well.
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I don't seem to, personally, but I recently re-encountered someone who wrote/drew (cartooned) very vividly about a closely related subject.
The specific comic (from the early 70s) is
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. It's out of print in its original form but has now been republished as part of
Justin Green's Binky Brown Sampler.
From a
review:
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The Binky Brown Sampler reprints Green's true adventures with the True Church, and explains some of the problems he wrote about in the original 1972 edition. His obsessive-compulsive disorder was unheard of 25 years ago, but now, he writes, "even Oprah knows about it."
This condition lead him to the notion that the extremities of his body--his fingers, his feet and, of course, his penis--gave off rays. He committed unwilling blasphemy every time a ray crossed the path of a church, and he had to take extreme care to make sure the rays never intersected with anything sacred.
Inanimate objects developed a loaded significance. In one story, he tells how a big nail sticking in the side of a rafter in his studio became invested with malign power. It was a nail big enough, he felt, to be used in a gory medieval painting of a crucifixion, and once that image suggested itself, he was doomed. Green may be unusually obsessed, but any Catholic will recognize the condition: deep-down rebellion expressing itself as blasphemous thoughts that must be fought back. ("Homo thoughts about Christ!! I better do some penance," Binky chokes.) The spiraling sense of shame and fear keeps the reluctant Christian miserable, then as now.
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I give it five stars out of five:
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