GE 1998-9 Season 5 Episode 7: Paulitorial
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: What do I really want ? Well,
a lot of what I want has to do
with ... my ... lower
extremities. And though it’s
a natural biological
imperative, I’m still wracked
with guilt about it.
“Get your mind out of the
gutter.”
That’s what my father always
used to say.
“Get your mind out of the
gutter.”
He was railing on about, what
the brothers at St. Matthew’s
called, “dirty thoughts.”
Dirty thoughts, now what did
adults mean by that ?
They could only mean that what
was always on a young person’s
daydreaming mind was
despicable and rotten.
It was what the sodality and
the apostleship of prayer did
their darnedest to get off
your mind, what you giggled
about with your gang while
fumbling around in your
clothing in the neighbour’s
backyard, and what you never
discussed with your Dad or
your grade seven teacher.
Sex is what was on your mind,
pure and simple, and sex is
what they were talking about.
That, then, was the equation
eternally locked into my
little Catholic head - sex
equals dirt.
That was all there was to be
said on the subject, no
discussion allowed, no
discussion needed upon a
matter that had been decided.
Sex, sewer; sex, filth; sex,
depravity; sex, smut; dirty
vile immoral scummy
pornographic obscene indecent
perverted rottenness.
Sin sin sin, and you were
going to hell.
What always confused me,
though, was what were adults
thinking about when they were
thinking about young people
thinking about sex all the
time ? What were they
thinking about ? And why
wasn’t it a sin for them ?
No amount of St. Matthew’s
inflected theology, or
daydreaming, ever explained
that to me.
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