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St. Sebastian Eroticism |
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Mishima's adolescent hero has a very special sexual fantasy after he recognized the high sexual appeal of depictions of St. Sebastian: an Icon Renaissance transformation of a death / murder - via being "penetrated" by arrows - into homoeroticism. His fantasy is represented on the above cover of Mishima's novel. For an excellent reporting (in French) on the transformation of Saint Sebatian's murder into homoerotic art by Italian Renaissance artists see Ressouni-Demigneux, Karim (1996). "LA CHAIR ET LA FLECHE: Le regard homosexuel sur saint Sébastien tel qu'il etait representé en Italie autour de 1500."
A Canadian male I know reported that a scene - similar to the one depicted above - was present in the movie the Sandpebbles (1966), with Steve McQueen. Viewing this scene had resulted in sexual stimulation. These experiences inform us about our sexualities and we do not "choose" what will result in sexual stimulation.
The relationship of murder and homoeroticism
is noted by John R, Keene (1999) in Covergence of Hatreds, Blackstipe Magazine:
http://www.blackstripe.com/news/jkeene/louima.html.
"Racial
and sexual-orientation-focused hatred are often not linked conceptually
or theoretically, except by a few writers, such as the German Klaus Theleweit,
for example, and Americans such as Urvashi Vaid. (The story of lynching
in the U.S. has a strong homoerotic subtext.) But it is not just on the
theoretical level that this gap is occurring; practically it is a problem
as well."
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