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That First Naked Glory
A new book by Brian Rothery
(For now available only online)
Written over the past ten years, this book examines the great human drive that seeks erotic beauty. It also examines the dissociation or lesion that divides us between our rational and instinctive states. Beginning with the archetype of Eden, it searches down through history for signs of humankind's interest in erotic beauty and finds reasons for today's moral panic about 'sex abuse'. It sees sex abuse as the crimen exceptum upon which the modern Inquisition or police state is based.
Major manifestations of erotic beauty are identified in women, in the 'garden of love' created by the union of man and woman, in Sapphic displays, in androgyny, and in young people and children.
It notes that as society becomes more eroticized through the Internet and television it becomes more criminalized through that same process.
Cover illustration by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick de Clerck in Staatsgalerie Neuburg An der Donau, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen.
Outline of chapters
That first naked glory
Part 1. Paradise lost
Chapter 01. That first naked glory
Chapter 02. Paradise lost
Chapter 03. The crimen exceptum
Chapter 04. Woman as evil
Chapter 05. The search for erotic beauty
Chapter 06 The erotic drive
Chapter 07. Nakedness
Chapter 08 The beautiful woman
Chapter 09. Beauty and eroticism
Chapter 10. Feminine cornucopia
Chapter 11. Erotic narratives
Part 2 State of shame
Chapter 12 The semantic environment
Chapter 13 The criminalization of society
Chapter 14 The defilement of women
Chapter 15 The Land of Fantasy
Chapter 16 Fetishism
Chapter 17 Forbidden fruit
Part 3 Garden of Love
Chapter 18 Me Tarzan, you Jane
Chapter 19 The oldest profession
Chapter 20 Garden of love
Part 4. Paradise regained
Chapter 21 Brief return to Eden
Chapter 22 Beauty and the beast
Chapter 23 Pandora’s box
Chapter 24 The knife edge
Chapter 25 Paradise regained
(104,419 words)
Copyright © Brian Rothery
About the author
Brian Rothery is a widely published author and journalist and former Irish government agency press officer. He has had 21 books published, most by major US and British publishers, including early novels and later business books, some of the latter going into 16 translations. To check him out do an author search on Amazon. He lives in Ireland.
He is also the editor of the Inquisition 21st century web site and the co-ordinator of the British class action against the police and other perpetuators of Operation Ore (derived from the notorious US Landslide case), which destroyed the lives of thousands of mainly innocent British families. He brings to bear on the subject his considerable knowledge of the harm being done to humankind by the incorporation of the human need for erotic beauty into the prosecution apparatus of the state with its consequences of police and prosecution corruption and grave injustices.
Mainly, however, the book is an examination and celebration of erotic beauty itself and although it follows some avenues that will not please all, such as the separation of erotic beauty from mainstream pornography, the identification of new practices formerly considerd to be perversions, and the potential for beauty in the legally underaged and children, it is the author's honest attempt to follow the subject wherever it goes.
For publishers and agents
This book has not yet been shown to any publisher or agent. As the Operation Ore class action (known as a group action in the UK) goes to court during 2010, the subject will be of even greater interest and the author (who was not personally involved in Ore other than as a representative of the Orees) will be in a position to use the Operation Ore publicity to promote the book also. This web site, which benifits from unsolicited links from hundreds of other sites, will also continue to promote the book.
Contact the author at ed-inquisition@live.ie
To obtain the book
Chapter 01 and Chapter 02 are supplied free here for now. The links are below.
To access the whole 25 chapter, 104,000 word, book online, send a donation to the Operation Ore Group Action of 10 Euros or more. Be sure to also send your email address to the author below, so that a password for access to the book can be sent to you. Email author at ed-inquisition@live.ie
To donate by Paypal or other means, click HERE.
Read Chapters 1 and 2.
Created on 04/09/2009 01:32 PM by Editor
Updated on 04/20/2010 01:18 PM by Editor
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