Reviews for Sex after sixty

The average rating for Sex after sixty based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-16 00:00:00 Chad B. De la séduction = Seduction, Jean Baudrillard Two chief obstacles to unleashing the potentially liberating forces of seduction are the women's movement and psychoanalysis, charges the author of America and Forget Foucault. While recognizing that seduction has a negative side--turning the seduced person away from his/her true thoughts and impulses--Baudrillard is intrigued by the seductive processes at work in the vertigo induced by games, in magic and the lottery, in the transvestite's "total gestural, sensual and ritual" behavior. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و دوم ماه ژوئن سال 2008 میلادی عنوان: اغوا؛ نویسنده: ژان بودریار؛ مترجم: امین قضایی؛ مهران حاتمی؛ تهران، گام نو، 1384، در 271 ص؛ ای.بوک بودریار در «اغوا» مینویسند: «سده هجده میلادی، هنوز از اغوا سخن میگفت، به همراه شجاعت و شرافت، که از دل مشغولیهای محیطهای اشرافی بود». اگر از این زاویه ی دید، به رمانهای سده هجده میلادی، و یا رمانهای سالهای پایانی سده ی هفدهم میلادی، سری بزنیم، به درستی سخن «بودریار»، پی خواهیم برد. رمانهای: «جین آستین»، مملو از همین مفهومند: «اغواگری زنانه، در مجالس رقص، و میهمانیها، و تئاترهای خانوادگی، در عین حفظ شرافت». اگر سده هجده میلادی، یا عصر روشنگری را، نقطه جدایی عصر کهن و تازه، بدانیم، به گفته ی «بودریار»، این انقلاب بورژوازی بود که به چنان دل مشغولیهایی پایان داد...؛ ا. شربیانی

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-17 00:00:00 David Vanderwoude Jean Baudrillard gets better with every word. No one has ever clarified seduction with such refinement and eloquence. "For nothing can be greater than seduction, than seduction itself; not even the order that destroys it" . Baudrillard in this text pose a challenge to the psychoanalytical question of anatomy (human body) being the destiny with the liberation of sex. Seduction has always being categorized as an enthralling act conclusive to sex; a feminine forte. If so, then how do red roses when articulately placed in a bouquet look alluring? Seduction as Baudrillard points out is a game of ritual and simulation which governs politics, social life, culture, sex and even death. Seduction is immortal, a mind game played with no rules but with sheer accuracy which charms, captures and entice the innermost vulnerability leading to its collapse. It is a mystifying illusion that conceals truth creating a superfluous and deceiving environment. With references to Kierkegaard's 'Diary of a Seducer', stereo- pornography, Japanese vaginal cyclorama and other overtly displays of sexual pleasures; Baudrillard emphasis that acts of sex, fetishes and obsessions lead to the death of seduction mutating a malicious form of perversion. This is a brilliant book which prophecies that even though today seduction thrives in the remains of the shadows, it will rise like a phoenix and become man's inescapable destiny. True to its title; I could not let go of the book even after reading the last word.