“ ‘I am a failure,’ sagt der Amerikaner,‘and that is that.’ "
—Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
I’ve spent most of my life in school. I nearly made it my career. A failed academic who seeks out schoolroom porn: it fairly cries out for a psychological interpretation. Or maybe a Marxist one: “Hegel has written somewhere that all great world-historical facts and personages, occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce,” (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte).
My kink would demonstrate a corollary, perhaps, to Marx’s law of world-historical repetition:
all the traumatic events in our lives occur twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as erotic role-playing.