{"id":739,"date":"2008-01-25T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2008-01-25T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T07:44:09","slug":"sex-in-disturbia-%e2%80%93-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Sex In Disturbia &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"250\" src=\"\/images\/pvcavatar.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"AlexSuze\" height=\"214\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 214px\" title=\"AlexSuze\" \/>Sex isn&#8217;t always fantastic, sometimes it&#8217;s crap, other times it&#8217;s just OK but if you&#8217;re lucky most of the time it&#8217;s very enjoyable and occasionally mind-blowing. It&#8217;s the unpredictability of sex and relationships that make life interesting. Without the highs and the lows monotony would set in.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I often write about sex in odd situations. Stories about perfect sex disassociated with a larger narrative are stranded and bereft of meaning as it has no reference points.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I&#8217;m going to start an occasional series about the inhabitants of a fictional road in deepest disturbia called Darwin Close. It&#8217;s been brewing in my head for a while now and is populated with a huge mass of characters that I want to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about the ordinary that disturbs me. Nothing is perfect, there&#8217;s always an undercurrent. It&#8217;s the sound that you can hear in the middle of the night when the traffic noise has died down and everyone is in bed. It is a quiet sound and you have to know what to listen for. It&#8217;s as gentle as a sigh and as thunderous as an avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Listen for it now, can you hear it? It&#8217;s the sound of a million dreams and aspirations dieing. Not the sudden death that you experience when you find out you&#8217;ve only a couple of months to live. Or the feeling you get when you realise that the woman you read about in the paper who jumped in front of a train was the woman you promised yourself you&#8217;d eventually ask out and marry.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the slow strangling death of every mote of hope in the mind of every bored housewife and salary man who wakes up one morning and realises that they&#8217;re five years from retirement and can&#8217;t remember what they actually did with the last forty years.<\/p>\n<p>This gentle and insidious asphyxiation of the human spirit can produce aberrations that would keep a psychologist in research material for an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s spite, self interest, loathing, envy and jealousy. The only hearts and flowers are the hearts with a kitchen knife piercing an atrium and the only flowers are the digitalis in your bedtime coffee.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s sex and passion. Passion in all it&#8217;s forms, from the pure to the twisted, the selfless to the selfish. And did I mention sex.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy *evil grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex isn&#8217;t always fantastic, sometimes it&#8217;s crap, other times it&#8217;s just OK but if you&#8217;re lucky most of the time it&#8217;s very enjoyable and occasionally mind-blowing. It&#8217;s the unpredictability of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=739\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}