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Mythology of

Pussy and Dick

Toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality

Marvin X

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Brother and comrade Marvin,

Thank you for keeping me on the receivers list foryour written works! I count myself among the privileged.

As an artist i.e. truthteller-trail blazer you have always been cutting edge both in what you lived,experienced and the naked truth you bare in "emptying of Spirit out ofitself" (as Hegel would put it) as did Trane's Offering. Very rare, andwhether we all recognize it now or not we are fortunate to witness such opennessand honesty, though it makes the smug uncomfortable in their fake comforts;show is the unessential masquerading as essential and therefore art as truthripping off masks is often seen as dangerous expose.

I was reading DeloresNochi's Introduction to your new contribution, Mythology of Pussy and Dick:Toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality, and thinking of what she observed:

"Mythology of Pussyand Dick is a compilation of everything Marvin X has written on sexuality in America and theworld. There are those who will miss this opportunity to receive wisdom fromour brother because of the language he uses to describe the male and femaleanatomy, and his perceived objectification of women and men, and this is atragedy because this information is crucial for men and women who are sufferingfrom a psycho-linguistic crisis and inflicting actual violence upon lovers intheir male/female and same gender loving relationships. These dysfunctionalinteractions are witnessed by children who are the next generation of couples...."


I agreed with her and atthe same time recalled the fate of those who preceded you in this undertaking -for instance the social scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Reich e.g. TheFunction of the Orgasm, Sexual Revolution and Sex-Pol [he was thrown into anAmerican federal prison and his books burned in 1956, he died in an Americanprison in 1957http://en.wikipedia/wiki/Book_burning#Wilhelm_Reich.27s_publications_.28by_U.S._Food_and_Drug_Administration.29

Also I thought of LennyBruce: Bruce served in the navy during World War II (1942-45) and beganperforming stand-up comedy in 1946. As he gained popularity in New York night clubs,his brand of comedy shifted from impersonations to free-wheeling monologuessatirizing religion and politics. He released several comedy albums andappeared occasionally on TV, especially as a guest of Steve Allen and HughHefner. In 1961 he was arrested after a performance in San Francisco and charged with obscenity.Bruce was acquitted, but for the next few years he was frequently in troublewith the law for using raw language on stage -- a no-no back then. In 1964 hewas convicted of obscenity in NewYork and jailed for a few months (in 2003 GovernorGeorge Pataki posthumously pardoned him). http://www.answers.com/topic/lenny-bruce.


Delores' take on the depthand honest language of your work also made me remember the radical 60s and thewritings of early contemporary feminists, such as the analysis of sexualbiology by Anne Koedt The Myth of Vaginal Orgasm http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/vaginalmyth.html

But more directly your artistic style and the Avante-Garde revolutionary loveand rebellion poetry and music of Archie Shepp - in particular his Blasehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpE9SN81H6E

So! Your latestcontribution here is evidence that the struggle continues! Thanks and staystrong!

Lil Joe

Preface

After a life of failed relationships, I am now an authority on how to fuck shit up. But I also learned how to keep peace in thehouse by speaking the language of love and receiving it from my beloved. Callit the tone test, if you will, but the language of love will go a long waytoward healthy male/female relations or any human relations.

My mother told me I didn’t need a wife but a maid, secretary and mistress. In the fourth quarter of my life, I must admit andconfess I think Mom was right. After someone read my essay Creativity andSexuality, they said we must keep a balance.

And this is true except for those like myself who manifest the addictive personality that consistently borders on the extreme,somehow missing that balance that provides the stability we need to survive andthrive in this turbulent world, now racing toward The End!

I am much like James Baldwin who said, “I had to live recklessly in order to live at all.” And it seems I am also like the Barakaswho live with high drama. It is doubtful I would be able to live a life withoutdrama, being the dramatist I am, although these days I try to stay in the nostress zone, yet drama finds me at every turn. I am fascinated with lesbiansbecause interacting with them is so dramatic.

There is a natural dramatic tension when one desires what he can’t have! It’s a challenge, even greater than seeking aheterosexual woman, although she is fine with me, especially if she hasmastered the language of love and doesn’t talk in a provocative language, i.e.,don’t tell me to do shit. I don’t have to do a motherfucking thang!

As the Maid, the Ho, the Cook (see story inside) taught me, if you ask me right, in the right tone, I will do anything andeverything, but if you come at me in a dictatorial manner that expressesdomination, you can’t get nothing here! Matter of fact, I’ll do the opposite,as in kiss my ass.

Today, relationships are fragile at best because people are under great stress generally: will we have a job tomorrow, a house,a mate, sanity? So we can only take things one day at a time. Again, there isgreat insecurity among the people, thus relationships are enduring major stress.

Yet, we cannot get out of these human relationships because love is all there is, even living in the imagination willnot suffice, ultimately, we must leave our dream state to encounter reality,and the reality is that we often connect with people with whom we know anddon’t know, whom we love and don’t love, yet must love. It takes the sameenergy to love as to hate, same energy. My favorite song says, “The greatestthing you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return.”

--Marvin X

Introduction

by

Delores Nochi

Mythology of Pussy and Dick is a compilation of everything Marvin X has writtenon sexuality in Americaand the world. There are those who will miss this opportunity to receive wisdomfrom our brother because of the language he uses to describe the male andfemale anatomy, and his perceived objectification of women and men, and this isa tragedy because this information is crucial for men and women who aresuffering from a psycho-linguistic crisis and inflicting actual violence uponlovers in their male/female and same gender loving relationships. Thesedysfunctional interactions are witnessed by children who are the nextgeneration of couples. Theywill emulate what they see elders enact.

The same people who dare judge his choice of words, his linguistic dexterity, are guilty of lingering in the comfort of their bedrooms watchingshows on big screen TVs that depict graphic details of violence perpetratedagainst others, especially women, yet they call it entertainment. If childrenlearn more from what they see than what we tell them, how will they process andact upon the continued sexual chaos that is manifested in our families andsociety?

The author has proven himself to be a leader and a teacher who has the best interest of the community at heart. He speaks truth with language that can beunderstood by the least of us and the best of us. His credentials includesbrief tenure at the finest institutions in America : Fresno State University ,1969, University of California , Berkeley , 1972, Mills College , 1972, SanFrancisco State University , 1974, University of California , San Diego , 1975,University of Nevada , Reno , 1979.

He embraced the system and defied the system! Oriented in the Muslim tradition of polygamy or plural marriage (see his play In the Name of Love,Laney College Theater production 1981); he has conquered his own demons andheld his own with associated intellectuals and psychopaths. In the words ofJames Sweeney “…Courageous and outrageous, he walked through the muck and mireof hell and came out clean as white fish and black as coal.”

We all have war stories about relationships gone bad. The difference between Marvin X and the rest of us is that Marvin X has lived what he is writingabout, survived it and is willing to talk about it, and holds nothing back,narrated in language that will grab your attention and cause you an epilepticseizure!.

Each story is rich with commentary which speaks to society’s attitudes about male and female relationships: rape, athletes, toxic love, crack house sex,women without men, language of love, religious persecution of women (a womanstoned); gay and lesbian youth, same sex marriage, and much more…

His parables are commentary about events in real time is ingenious. If you are a follower of his blog, then you know with each daily entry he not onlyprovides us with happenings locally and nationally, but walks us through eventsfrom a historical and global perspective.

Marvin X has chosen to sensitize our society by using words like pussy and dick. Language is fluid and if its primary use is communication, and if throughwords one fails to hit the target, then what is the point? It may be that theauthor is before his time, and in future generations, pussy and dick willbecome words of endearment, not relegated to the present negative connotations.Perhaps it will become a mantra chanted over and over as a pre-sex ritual. Whynot? Lord knows we could use some more effective ways to get beyond recklessabandonment.

In his essay, The Maid, the Ho, the Cook, Marvin X demonstrates his tender side. Lil Joe describes this story as “One of the most beautiful pieces aboutreal love I’ve ever read. The image of ‘crack-heads’ as scandalous and withouthuman dignity is destroyed by Marvin’s recollection of this sister with whom hefell in love”. Because the object of MX’s affection is for a whore, but thereare those, and you know who you are, who will lose the essence of this storywhich addresses real feelings and real interactions between a man and a woman.Perhaps, you have only loved when it was safe to do so. But all of us who haveloved surely know that passion and feelings can at times be both spontaneousand unsolicited.

Is Marvin X the only courageous one among us who dares to “tell the truth and shame the devil”?

--Delores Nochi Cooper