I think the logic of the second part is very confusing, and I hope that Douyou who understands it will give me some clues. Joe's libido development seems to have two lines, one narrative is that joe has lost his sexual pleasure, what is unclear here is whether she only has sex with jerome and has no pleasure in sex or has no pleasure in having sex with anyone. Because of the loss of an important sensory component in life, joe is very desperate to regain pleasure, so he begins to try more and more "heavy" ways, have sex with black people, and try sm.
The second narrative is that joe is insatiable, and jerome cannot satisfy her desire, so she is allowed to find a sexual partner outside. Although jerome offered this option, joe's intimate relationship had a crack since then, and jerome actually felt bad.
I find these two statements contradicting each other. One is that joe loses pleasure and wants to get it back, so joe rarely gets pleasure in sex, her self-reported: "Three years later...I get very little pleasure in sex, let alone sex Orgasm". The line goes on, her first explicit orgasm after this was after ditching jerome and the child and getting 40 lashes in sm. According to this explanation, joe is not only with jerome, but other people can't give her pleasure.
But there is another scene in the play where joe has sex with jerome feverishly, she says "fill all my holes" until jerome is powerless, in this scene I don't think joe has no pleasure, so crazy and jerome have no pleasure The piston movement, hoping to get a climax. I think the language of the camera shows that joe has desire and pleasure, but jerome can't satisfy it. And if joe doesn't have sexual pleasure, after jerome's initiative, it doesn't make sense for joe to find many sexual partners outside, because it will be a simple piston movement, and joe can't be satisfied.
Especially in the sm incident, joe's motives are very confusing. The narrative of the movie shows more that joe's lust is insatiable. sm brings her too much pleasure. In pursuit of pleasure, she is like a drug addiction. It was the right choice to be around jerome and children, but abandoned them for pleasure. But what is very confusing is that the logic of the sm incident does not seem to be like this. Joe only saw the possibility of regaining the pleasure in it. In the previous sm, she only re-experienced it by being humiliated and tortured. The body's long-lost sexual arousal cannot be regarded as a real sexual pleasure. In order to regain the possibility of sexual pleasure, she abandoned the child again and again, until she finally abandoned Jerome and the child on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, joe was an old addict who went to the drug dealer to get his first shot despite the pleas of his family after several years of detoxification. It was not until joe completely chose to give up the normal life of emotional fetters with others and plunged into the underground world where only sex exists.
Coming to SM I feel like the story is being driven by two conflicting narratives. The subsequent stories also took on different narratives. The mutual aid group still received the second narrative, showing that joe’s desires were overwhelming. She was complained by her colleagues because she had too many sexual partners, and she regretted that she had hurt her family because of her sexual desire, thus ending up alone. Ended up, so determined to quit addiction. She asks her mentor if she can get rid of her sexuality completely, and seems desperate to learn that only one in a million people can. But in the end, joe regained his confidence and self-awareness. He felt that he was not wrong and did not need to change. He was a nymphomaniac.
But in the end, the debt collection work has a secret progressive relationship with the first line. Joe has had difficulty getting pleasure from sexual activity, completely numb but still able to do piston exercises, to sm with sequelae and completely unable to have sex.
In short, the causal relationship is very confusing. In the end, joe decided to be pure and greedy. It seems that he regretted that he was a bad person and wanted to change his mind. Isn't it partly because she has no second option at all? Joe is completely unable to have sex because of his organ damage, what else can he do other than pure heart and few desires...
In short, I think the narrative logic of the second part is very confusing and contradictory. Maybe I didn't understand it. I hope friends who understand can help me.
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