if people want to avoid this haunted burial ground completely i understand but for those of us who had a few days off and missed out on the trouble here, there were lots of interesting ideas that could be picked up on
to go back just before the scene of the crime,
i mean you could say that all repression is sexual in character, stemming from a stunted arousal
but an arousal that’s not limited to explicit, genital, fucking.
so a group of straight blokes dealing with finding themselves in a gay club by giggling in the corner is an indicator of the particular repressive qualities of many hetero male group dynamics, but not necessarily due to the literal repressed sexual desires to fuck men that the members of that group may secretly harbour. although of course it may be.
like i don’t understand properly people who don’t dance, i cant help seeing it as pathological, repressed behaviour. but lots of people don’t enjoy dancing, and i've had to learn that insisting that it must be due to some knotty unreconstructed homophobic repression could be incorrect and annoying.
its just that the culturally inculcated repression mechanisms stem from so many factors to do with class and beyond that this kind of hetero reflex to being in a gay club indicates a lot more than maybe secretly fancying men.
but that being said, lots of gays, who’ve been fortunate enough to spent a lot of time outside of straight male bonding environments, seem relatively unrepressed. gay sex can be difficult if you’ve got a broom stuck up your arse.