Once Upon a Gangbang in Paris

Herbert Marcuse's book "Eros and Civilization" proposes a non-repressive society by attempting a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. He describes a utopia based on aesthetics, sensuality and play, as opposed to our current construction of civilization based on reason, production and repression. When I was a horny twenty-year-old living on a friend's couch, reading Marcuse was the closest thing I had to erotic fiction.

Marcuse outlines the relationship between erotic fulfillment and the cause of productivity, saying that instructing someone to become productive depends on the redirection of their sexual energy—so they can't be allowed sexual release, or else their drive for progress is diminished.

Which came first, my libido then a justification of free love informed by Marcuse's theory. Or the theory of sexual liberation that I then practiced by being horny, who knows? In this story, once upon a gangbang, both theory and praxis chase each like two star-crossed fuckers.

Intro music by Sam Widaman, episode music by Christopher Mathis available on bandcamp

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