Dominance rituals, the President and the Terrorist

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published a review of "Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait" by Israeli journalist Uri Dan. Dan was the former adviser, close confidant and friend of the late Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon.

In the book, Uri Dan discusses a meeting between Sharon and US President Bush:

Uri Dan recalls that Sharon's delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: "I will screw him in the ass!"

Once a frat boy, always a frat boy.

But on a more serious note, students of human nature may notice just how many dominance rituals are deeply sexual in nature. (And for that matter, how deeply sexual physical dominance is to many people.)

As many millions of gay men, and many millions more of heterosexual men and women, will tell you, being screwed in the arse is -- or at least can be -- a deeply pleasurable experience.

It tells you something about sex and power that (arguably) the #1 Alpha Male on planet Earth -- at least for two more years -- thinks the worst thing he could possibly do to his worst enemy is to fuck him.