Yawn
Last week Q left a comment stating: “Boy, Supervert. I can almost hear your yawn reading through that one.” Indeed, Q, a text often contains an implicit gesture — a shrug, a middle finger, a salacious leer, a belly laugh, a yawn. Of course, a yawn can signify many different things, as researcher Wolter Seuntjens pointed out in the The Hidden Sexuality of the Human Yawn. But to the extent that a yawn symbolizes boredom, it may be an expression particularly relevant to perversion. After all, the pervert is often caught on the hedonic treadmill: some kink inspires him, then it becomes boring or tiresome and he has to push onward in search of some new pleasure. In this regard, the yawn compares to the flaccid penises found among Sadean libertines. 120 Days of Sodom:
This was the moment at which our libertine’s pleasure attained its crisis: to have filled the young and pretty cunt to overflowing with shit, to crowd it with shit and stuff it with yet more, that was his supreme delight: all the while in action, he opens his fly and draws out a species of prick, very flaccid it is, and he shakes it, and as he toils away in his disgusting manner, he manages to spatter upon the floor a few drops of thin, discolored sperm, whose loss may be credited solely to the infamies he has been performing.
Sometimes the blog posts here at PervScan are the verbal equivalents of that thin, discolored sperm. In a sense, it is the price that PervScan pays for “toiling away in this disgusting manner” for so long. When the site launched in 2003, there was nothing quite like PervScan online, and it was titillating to see that search technologies made it possible to discover a new perversion a day. Six years later, that process of desensitization has really taken hold. Net porn, sex blogs, communities dedicated to every perversion imaginable — a significant portion of the internet has become the dark mass of kink that was taboo a few decades ago and illegal a generation ago. The repressed has returned with a vengeance.
What is the mission for PervScan at a time when it is becoming increasingly absurd to speak meaningfully of any sexuality as perverse? Is the mission to chronicle the decay of old values? To document every perverse act or to highlight only the most extreme ones? To understand what drives a person to sexually assault a dog? To provide a forum for discussion? To maintain a bored but desperate adherence to its mission, like that flaccid libertine? Hmm…
Jenny whispered, “They go to bed. Then he puts out the light. Then their toes touch. And then Miss Brodie… Miss Brodie…” She broke into giggles.
“Miss Brodie yawns,” said Sandy in order to restore decency, now that she suspected it was all true. (Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Perhaps there is inspiration to be had in the knowledge that that yawn does anything but restore decency.
Suffice it to say, you provide a valuable service.
On that note, thanks or not charging us for it.
I definitely agree with Thinkin’ Pervy! Keep up the good work!
Delightful essay; thanks for the reflections. When I yawn in morning gym class and get scolded by my classmates, I always explain that I’m just gasping for more oxygen, the better to carry on….
Wow! no yawns here “This was the moment at which our libertine’s pleasure attained its crisis: to have filled the young and pretty cunt to overflowing with shit, to crowd it with shit and stuff it with yet more, that was his supreme delight: all the while in action, he opens his fly and draws out a species of prick, very flaccid it is, and he shakes it, and as he toils away in his disgusting manner, he manages to spatter upon the floor a few drops of thin, discolored sperm, whose loss may be credited solely to the infamies he has been performing.” Try that on the back of a greyhound and see what you get..
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