Of Livestock and Photophobia

[10:07] miss havisham: livestock: not my thing, sexually speaking.
[10:10] Gregonzola: Yet.
[10:11] Gregonzola: You need to come to Germany with us.
[10:11] miss havisham: I don't know, are one's sexual preferences pretty well set by adulthood?
[10:11] Everybody: Ascii piggy!
[10:11] Everybody: It depends on the personality type.
[10:11] Everybody: Some people's are, some aren't.
[10:12] Everybody: Both can be adjusted with the proper use of psychotropics or intense pleasure.
[10:13] miss havisham: why adjust? i like what i like.
[10:13] miss havisham: piggies not included.
[10:14] Everybody: Sure, but you could like so much more!
[10:14] Gregonzola: Sometimes people really want to adjust.
[10:14] Everybody: Let's assume for a minute that life is this panorama of available ecstasy.
[10:14] Everybody: And you like the stuff over on the left.
[10:14] Gregonzola: I chatted with a psychiatrist who specialized in sexual therapy at a party once. When I found out what he did, I asked what his oddest case was.
[10:15] Everybody: Think how much richer your life would be if you also were to like that sheeps, the whips, the tattooing?
[10:15] Everybody: Heh. Couldn't resist, could you, Grego?
[10:15] Gregonzola: He worked with a guy who, during his adolescent years had no lock on his bedroom door. So, the guy would work it while holding the knob.
[10:15] miss havisham: i bet everyone asks him that.
[10:15] Gregonzola: The guy had become sexually stimulated by doorknobs.
[10:15] Gregonzola: The sight of them, the feel of them, etc.
[10:15] Everybody: Naturally.
[10:15] Gregonzola: With some serious aversion therapy, he was able to overcome it.
[10:16] Everybody: Makes sense. There is a certain perfume that whenever I smell it I think "it's fucking time!"
[10:16] Gregonzola: Yep.
[10:16] Gregonzola: Eventually you set up certain neural pathways.
[10:16] Gregonzola: You can retrain them, but it takes time.
[10:17] miss havisham: sounds like a lot of work.
[10:17] Gregonzola: For example, if we put a picture of Havi in front of you every time you banged a piggy, pretty soon you'd be stimulated by Havi instead of pigs.
[10:17] Gregonzola: Havi, it is!
[10:17] Everybody: Work is good for the soul.
[10:17] Everybody: Ohh.
[10:17] Gregonzola: But when you have a doorknob fetish, it's well worth it.
[10:17] Everybody: Can I make the piggies wear little Havi masks and do them in front of a mirror?
[10:17] Gregonzola: Absolutely.
[10:17] miss havisham: No.
[10:17] miss havisham: NO.
[10:17] miss havisham: YOU MAY NOT.
[10:17] Everybody: As long as the piggies are okay with it, that is.
[10:17] Everybody: And now Havi understands the true roots of my photophobia.
[10:18] miss havisham: "I don't let people take my photo because I'm afraid they will turn it into a mask for pigs to wear while they fuck them" is the root of your photophobia?
[10:19] Everybody: It's in the same category, yeah.