The Ontological War

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As with all increasing realself people, Ann and Graham in Sex, Lies, and Videotape express their current ontological thoughts and emotions through their sex lives. One example of their doing this is when they each say they are the most sexual when they are by themselves.
Ann tells her therapist:
Ann: I mean, I’m sure he probably [...]

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It’s very common for people who are increasing their degrees of realself to take a step forward, learn something new, and then use that new knowledge to examine other aspects of their lives. Ann does this in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and these post about her will do the same.
Going back to the time when [...]

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In Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ann is talking with her therapist, and she mentions that her husband has not been having as much sex with her as in the past. She continues:
Ann: I mean, I’m sure he probably wishes that I would initiate things once in a while, and I would, except for it just [...]

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Quite a few people think sex is “just biological,” or “just physical,” or even “just chemical.” But as men and women increase their degrees of realself, they see that sex is actually linked inextricably to the realself.
Why is this? The main reason is probably that even though we can become alienated ontologically—we can fool ourselves [...]

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In Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ann and Graham are talking in a café, and Ann tells Graham “something personal”:
Ann: I think that, um … I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it. And I think that stuff about women wantin’ it just as bad as men [...]

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Recently I saw Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 film Sex, Lies, and Videotape for the first time. I’ve never paid much attention to movies in the past, but as much as I can recall now Sex, Lies is the most ontologically sensitive and insightful movie I have ever seen.
I’m going to use it as the framework to [...]

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Last night on tv a woman on the program CSI: NY said about the man who had raped her: “He stole my soul.” This statement by her shows that she was sensitive ontologically, but she wasn’t insightful ontologically, and she needed to understand two important facts about her sexual assault.
First of all, in all of [...]

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