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If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen. ... we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now. Biologically, everyone is male and female, so many male genes and so many female. And so what it is is we're saying 'OK, what's the big deal. Why is everybody so up tight about sex?' About faggots, queers, things like that. That's the way they are. ... People don't accept that they are both male and female, and people are afraid to break out of their sex thing because that's a big insecurity that's doing that. Consequently, people will make fun of us. We don't mind that, that's making them accept more, making fun that we accept that. The thing is this is the way we are. We think it's a gas. ... We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction. Reaction's applauding, passing out or throwing up, and all of that is a reaction, and as much of that we can get, the better. I don't care how they react, as long as they react.

Alice Cooper#11

AcceptanceFreedomInsecuritySexualitySociety

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker advocates for sexual spontaneity and criticizes societal insecurity regarding gender and orientation.
In plain terms
Let sex be spontaneous and stop being insecure about who you are.
What can you take from it?
Societal restrictions on sex stem from deep insecurity.

Where it applies

  • social commentary
  • personal freedom
  • sexual education

Putting it to work

  • accept differences
  • reduce stigma

Questions to consider

  • Why are people insecure?
  • What limits your freedom?

Another view

It assumes biological determinism for behavior.

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