The Naked Truth about The Other Way is the Right Way

The Other Way — Lloyd Harrison Whitling

Introduction:

I would like to tell you about my story first, so you all will know what to expect or, at least, feel forewarned. It’s a long story, like many, although shortening it was on my mind while I told it. It is a complicated story and, I’ve been told, one of my best as far as demonstrating the point it claims to make. I learned a great many things by the acts and investigations required to write it down, and saw how my own thoughts, once composed on paper, sometimes did not jibe with each other. Oftentimes, I held outright contradictions to be correct, and used them as principles for living and guiding my own life, and have since seen this phenomenon at work in most people with whom I deal. So, this story is a comparison of many modes of thought concerning a like idea, set down as fiction.

The 100-thousand words have been set down in two parts. Part One contains sexual content in more-or-less explicit scenes which, I’m sure you’ll agree, are relevant and enhance the ‘feelings’ in a contextually constructive manner. Expletives used throughout the story are in character with their users, and offer one more way to contrast a ‘clean’ approach to life with the one considered ‘normal’. I do agree we should not fear our sexuality. I disagree that it should be commercially exploited and demeaned to where it has become a product whose appeal is upheld by titillation promoted by our religious institutions. On this, the reader must be the final judge: In retrospect, you can observe that, where such scenes have been set down, I have preferred symbolic portrayal, or to describe the inner feelings of those involved, over the physical cliches.

Part One describes Rodney Mudge pursuing his relationships with two women in the fashion covertly approved by our society (and overtly disavowed). Each incident knocks over the next in a wave of rushing events to which, once started, he can react only in the fashion with which he began. His attempts to shore up his marriage with flimsy lies serve only to make him appear contemptible.

Involved, as was the philosopher, Spinoza, in pursuit of a mathematical description of God, Jon Van Deutsch will finally decide that He is just as

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"To deny a right to the experience of pleasure is immoral unless that denial can be justified by a valid presentation of how pain will result from that experience in an amount that would render the expected pleasure regrettable; or, if it can be shown that pain will be induced in others innocent of any involvement. The role of science in moral issues should be to test that, predict that, and find harmless ways to demonstrate that."

— L. H. Whitling in the eBook, Secular Morality —