Remember
this: A huntress is no longer a free woman when enslaved to
vices.
Post-operatively speaking, surgery can really work a girl over. Doing seventeen hour sleep-o-thons due to prescription painkillers can throw you off your game. Tallying those hours up made me think it might make Sleeping Beauty fabulous, add in anemia while waking up feeling and looking like road kill, is the exception to the rule. Losing big slots of time does bring concerns, but my medical results were negative.
While in my drug-induced recovery, I was doing a lot of kindergarten art. One of my favorite things to do is look at and interpret art. Going into a museum and focusing on the nuances, details, and hidden meanings make for a relaxing time for me.
While
looking up this recipe for a French dish, I came across this book,
which I have now lost the title to. I was wandering off into Greek
cuisine, when I happened to wander off again into the hunting realm.
In it's pages were the pictures of Greek vessels. I considered the
images of the surface treatment. I studied the content, which I had
seen before in a book at the library; a most risque book. Not quite
as literal and detailed as Japanese work, but fairly simplistic in
design. Maybe I am like Dean Winchester and I like my archaic porn.
For
some time now, I have wanted to be inclusive of same-sex peoples in
the realm of my hunting treatises. Usually, my writings are in the
form of heterosexual speculations. I consider people humans first.
Whatever they are into or do with other consenting adults in their
private bedrooms or with their reproductive organs is not my
business. Public sexy time photos from strangers are just muted. I
move on silently into that good night.
I
do take issue with sexual depravity when women, children, and animals
are being violated against their will by strangers or familiar
people, regardless of sexual orientation. Some of the content of
these pieces do allude to this type of nefarious activity. I turn my
vision to Canada and the problem of missing indigent tribes-women. I
will not dwell on that subject. It is best to save it for later. Yet
anyone reading this should look into this issue. It is a
heartbreaking thing.
The
vessels in question are called Attic Vases. These vessels either have
orange backgrounds with black figures portrayed on the surface, or
vice versa.
Male
and female figures were engaged doing some activity. The gifting or
exchange of deceased or living wildlife leaped out at me more so than
the naughty, implied sexual behavior. Images of the fox, a stag,
bird, or animal skin are being gifted, traded, or paid to another
individual for some purpose. The images are limited. Therefore the
interpretation could be limited as well.
Figures
are shown handing a dead fox to another male or female. One figure is
illustrated with a dead stag on his shoulders. There is an assortment
of farm animals delivered. Another interpretation of the image of the
fox is as a living pet gifted to the receiver.
When
considering the recipient, the individual could be a relative, a
consort, a concubine, a prostitute, or lover. When it gets into the
realm of sexual positions and amorous postures, we know what that
means. On one hand, there is the possibility these recipients are
people who do not or can not hunt for some reason.
When
you look at the rationale of the image, hunting was not exclusively
performed to provide food for the hunter's table. Hunting became a
non-monetary system to purchase or trade for sex.
I
could see where this is a kill three birds with one stone trick.
Hunter kills two stag, eats one or takes it to the wife, and then
pays a sex worker for some sexy time action with the second. Everyone
is happy.
I
began to chuckle a little because the images reminded me of the
movie, The Best Little Whore House in Texas. Dolly Parton's
character, Miss Mona Stangely, is running the Chicken Ranch. The
Chicken Ranch is a brothel, where football players go to fulfill
their sexual desires. The mode of exchange in the Chicken Ranch's
history was exchanging fowl for fortification.
These
vessels illustrate Greek daily life through snapshot imagery based on
concepts such as hunting, folklore, and sexuality. More so, the
interaction between each activity as it applies to Greek daily life.
To
interject here, I have constructed my personal vessels from home-made
and commercial clays. You take great care in the selection of the
treatment and imagery that is to be applied to the surface. You are
always thinking in terms, when fabricating sell-able items, of the
consumer. This treatment is what gives the vessel its value along
with the silhouette.
When
considering the use of such an artifact, these vessels could be used
during ceremonies, as home utility vessels for the purposes of
cooking and storage, humorous gag-gifts, or specifically made for
some purpose known only to the person commissioning the work.
The
idea of how publicly these vessels were displayed became an
interesting turn of events. When you consider in years past, the
event of LGBT peoples closeting themselves to avoid persecution, here
same-sex relationships are proudly displayed and shipped out to other
places as an exported trade-good during the 5th century.
These vessels were popular and being produced in Italy.
Could
the mindset, in regards to these same-sex shenanigans, be so open and
liberal?
I
thought of the rampant sex trade of today. Women, men, and children
are used as vessels of trade for money. Victims of a form of
capitalism in underbelly slums, off-shore yachts, high-profile call
girls and al la carte objects on someone's lavish lifestyle
procurement request list. Beware of those procurement people. You are
just an item that will make them money because they think everyone
and everything has their price.
Here
it is 2014 and same-sex couples are finally getting the right to
legally marry their partners. I asked myself: What happened? How did
the human timeline travel from having same-sex relationships as
acceptable enough to put on a vase, to threatening people with
persecution if they dared state the truth about their sexual
orientation?
There
is no stigma attached to the vessels that is known. Maybe it is known
yet I haven't seen a scholarly review of the details. This might have
changed with the advent of Christianity and doctrines raging against
same-sex participants.
These
vessels have become image documents testifying to the role of hunting
in sex-based trade activities. It also displays the role of hunting
in the relationship of heterosexual and LGBT hunting participants.
The vessels also indicate hunting participants as participating in
same-sex relations. Even if there was no love and the motive was
sexual pleasure, the sexual orientation of the partner didn't matter,
only the consenting decision. Sexual satisfaction was the ultimate
goal. I would have to argue the point in a humorous fashion of a
hunter going to a sex worker and saying, “Hold me. I want to be
held.”
Hunting purchased you sexy time. This sexy time could be void of emotional attachment and based solely around vice and physical pleasure.
Taking
liberties here, how do these artifacts from the past, when applied to
the current landscape of hunting, indicate a change in societies view
of hunting participants' representation of sexuality in the field
sports? In terms of gender roles, does it really matter what you do
with your partner or partners under the sheets or in the woods? When
hunting does it matter if you are heterosexual, homosexual,
trans-sexual, or bisexual? Why was same-sex relationships more
acceptable in the 5th century and not now in some
countries?
I
was going for the obvious, albeit comical. Of course, these are all
negative bullet point. Possible hunting for sex trade-offs could be:
Hunting
participants posting the sexiest photo of themselves online publicly
to catch the eye of a male or female hunter. This could ensue to
long-term or short-term sexy time.
Hunting
participants posting all but nude, or nude photos of themselves, to
agitate the male-female glands to get money and recognition in lieu
of online peepshow through self-exploitation.
Posting
all your expensive toys to show people how much you have, because
money is everything. Who cares if they like you, for you? If you
have money, you can pick and choose to whom you choose the sexy time,
discard, and move on.
Hunting
participants can involve themselves in relationships with other
hunters or people who have access to prime hunting areas for sexual
trade. Who cares if the sex is bad as long as you get a good hunting
spot? When hunting season ends, move on.
Hunting
participants who are dating and married come home with said quarry
and expect dinner, a movie, and sexy time because it is there legal
right, by God. No spouse shall block the sexy time.
Getting
past these points, the question of same-sex in hunting reoccurs to me
from a heterosexual vantage point.
When
you consider the alpha-male's position of hunting as a purely male,
testosterone driven sport, where the wimps cry and run home to mama
while the bearded men with the most balls prevail, where does the
LGBT fit in? Where would a LGBT fit in to the alpha-male hunter, who
finds other hunters as puny, inferior beings, playing in his hunting
sandbox?
When
the viewer considers the older and newer perspective on hunting
participants, it is heterosexual in nature. It seems to appear in
advertising. When you see an advertisement for the hunter of today,
you would probably see a heterosexual couple with children, a single
parent with a child, or a singleton with no progeny.
The
patriarch or matriarch is assumed to be heterosexual. These images
can be seen on social media and in memes, but the image itself can be
misleading in its content.
How
do we know the sexual orientation of the hunting participants? Is it
implied or assumed? Do we not question the relationships in the
advertised photos? We use our greatest point of reference, which is
our personal view of our own sexuality. I am heterosexual, therefore
they are heterosexual. If this is so then how does a LGBT, interpret
what is a heterosexually implied image?
Here
the viewer could understand sexual orientation and sexuality to be
relative in hunting. Perception change from society to society, given
their acceptance or a societies limited and oft times murderous
contempt for such sexual activities.
If
you are a LGBT, when you go into the woods to hunt no one cares what
your sexuality is. There is no question to indicate your sexuality on
a hunting license to be used for discriminatory purposes.
As
for advertisements, when the eventual shift begins by understanding
LGBT are consumers too, the images will become more ambiguous. It is
unrealistic to think that all imagery will be presented in vague
ways. Let us hope that more people who are use to the heterosexual
condition will realize the slight that is being handed down to our
fellow hunter and soften the suffering of the human condition. LGBT
are not little aliens that have arrived on the heterosexual
landscape. I would not think they cared what heterosexuals do but
would appreciate a little consideration and representation as
consumers and participants in all arenas of life. When you stop
segregating people with issues made to exclude, then life is filled
with less anxiety. The people move on from the controversy that
disrupts everyone's life.
As
for LGBT, there is not much to understand. They pay taxes, vote,
adhere to the same laws as everyone else and are not a different
species. If people want to throw the Word of God at them, those
religious people should remember that their God is the ultimate
judge. Not them.
Otherwise,
sexual orientation does not matter in hunting or outdoor sports. If
it does, it is because of the prejudice of a human being with flawed
beliefs. Regardless of sexual orientation, people will choose to be
cruel or kind for whatever reason. It doesn't seem to matter.
Written
by: W Harley Bloodworth.
~Courtesy
of the AOFH~
