So far, I have been using this blog to try to get over a sock fetish and simply shift to an appreciation of socks. So far..it’s not working very well! Why not? I would like to explore the conditions for a successful sock narrative that does not devolve into a fetish.
The most important qualification is that the sock narrative should not seduce the reader into wanting to get more and more involved in socks. How is it possible not to be seduced? Perhaps there is no way of doing so. Perhaps the best way is simply to refrain from looking at socks altogether or even talking about them. In that case, the best narrative is simply no narrative whatsoever.
If this is still not possible, another way is to try to reverse the tendency for socks to become something that one approaches. How is that possible? Again, it’s not easy to do. I have suggested at the beginning of this blog that the focus should be on boys wearing socks, not going into girls wearing them. This is so because I think boys wearing socks can mitigate desire while allowing men to symbolically acknowledge and appreciate the comforts of socks.
Sadly, it doesn’t work that way. I have found that all these approaches only create more and more desire. I don’t know if this experiment truly succeeded and I am about to abandon it altogether, since it isn’t quite working. But I haven’t given up hope. I have some more ideas:
a) A blog that de-genders socks by making them completely about the pure sensation of socks themselves without any mention of gender.
b) A blog that renders socks boring by only describing their physical characteristics and dimensions? ( kind of logical atomism?)
c) A blog that equalizes people by showing that they are all the same, there are no genders, there are only bodies?
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