The Hot Button by David Poland

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THB #616: Shamelessness

THB #616: Shamelessness

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Nov 06, 2024
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It is a remarkable thing.

I don’t think people really understand how truly rare it is.

Even those who live under the umbrella of a truly shameless person often think they have achieved that magical power… but they haven’t.

It is, always for worse, a superpower.

Humans are overwhelmed by true shamelessness because it is a mindset that is beyond most people’s personal comprehension. For something to be so brazen, it must be real. The more brazen, the more real. All normal logic gets short-circuited.

I always remember a friend who was a sex and love addict explaining, “The more beautiful the person, the more disgusting thing I can get them to do, the better I feel about myself.”

But this was a person trying to get past their personal sickness and to regain the ability to be truly intimate with another human being.

This last year, I saw 2 examples in the media of a similar thing. First, in Matt Shea’s two documentaries about the pumped-up pile of human feces known as Andrew Tate, a sex tra…

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