Promoting pain
Posted by Abel on 29 Apr 2007 at 09:35 am | Tagged as: Startles
Readers may well be familiar with the concept of “Lorem Ipsum” – the opening words of a stock Latin phrase that printers and graphic designers use when laying out documents.
A fascinating website reveals that the text – used since the 1500s – is drawn from a passage of Cicero. In translation, this reads:
“No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.”
Pain procuring pleasure? Do designers realise that every time they use this standard text, they’re promoting the cause of kinkiness?
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Pain procuring pleasure - it sounds to me something like the Protestant Work Ethic. You know, that concept of hard work and frugality producing dividends. The pleasure of spanking is perhaps the outcome after the pain, and thus the hard work (being spanked) and frugality (i.e. experiencing strictness) reap rewards. I wonder what the Protestants would think of my ramblings??
Gee, thanks Abel!
I’m studying to be an Art Director and I’m always being assigned to use Lorem Ipsum as fill text.
Now you’ve given me one more thing to disctract me from my work and send me day dreaming.