Blog 3384 – 02.07.2025

“Eat Me”

Yesterday, I shared a funny line that I believe that I first heard quoted from a Saturday Night Live episode about forty-five years ago: “The animals are our friends and what do we do to our friends? We eat them.” When I quote those words again yesterday I also mentioned an often quoted conversational taboo regarding not mentioning sex, politics, or religion in polite conversation.

There are certain phrases that are used as insults that really are not that insulting. In one of my favorite movies call The Gift, a young widow with three young boys has the young one ask her what the word “fuck” means and she answers him, “It is a bad word for a good thing, making love. That is how your dad and I got you and your brothers.” I liked that explanation very much. The word has a bad connotation because it is often used as an insult in the two word phrase “fuck you” and sometimes “fuck me.” And I realize that some sensitive people cringe at the mention of the word, but I assure you that the word cannot hurt you. On the contrary it might help you to have a proper understanding of the word. It should bring a knowing smile to our faces, not exactly the intention of an insult.

Another insult that I heard often as a boy was today’s title – “Eat me.” If sex is a taboo subject then certain specific sexually acts are really thought taboo or off limits to some, oral sex being one of them, especially when expressing any preference or fondness for such.

The golden rule comes to mind: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Great sex, as I have often said to close friends, is messy, but it is also reciprocal. We should never ask more of a partner than we are willing to give.

Since I have already broken one of the three rules of conversational etiquette I may as well also touch on the other two. Religion in whatever particular flavor you choose is often if not always just so much B.S. invented and propagated by the powerful to keep the masses in check, hence Karl Marx famous line in his Communist Manifesto that religion is the opiate of the people. I recently read a theory that Christianity was actually invented by the Roman emperors in the third century by adding Christianity to the pantheon of the religions of Rome. The Roman Emperor who among his many titles was also referred to as the Son of God simply made Jesus in the story the Son of God attributing to him the miracles already incorporated into Roman religious observances from all the conquered groups’ religions that had already been made a part of the Pax Romana, to keep the peace.

Let me remind you that the Gospels, the oldest pieces of manuscripts of which date to about one hundred and fifty CE, have Jesus saying, “Take, eat this is my body which is broken for you. And drink, my blood which is shed for you.” He by those words instituted the crowning ritual of this new religion – “Eat me.”

Lastly there is politics, the true conman’s game of choice. Sex sells, religion sells, but so does politics and the market is always ripe for a new huckster out to make a name, to make a buck, and to develop a following.

Of the three: sex, religion, and politics who all seem to make strange bed fellows, I have to admit the former is the most pleasurable and fun. I have had a little fun with this piece, at no one’s expense I hope, but perhaps my own.

Your friend fellow traveler and fan of sex, religion, and politics especially the former,

David White

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