just learned that jean-jacques rousseau was so deeply deeply obsessed with being spanked – such a spank maniac if you will, that he used to drop trou and sprint backwards ass first at unsuspecting women on the off chance their first instinct would be to spank his bare ass
i know this because he published it in his biography. he was an extremely influential philosopher and this is his story as he chose to share it
The world is a rich tapestry.
I GOOGLED THIS ONLY TRYING TO FIND OUT IF IT WAS TRUE AND I RAN INTO AN ESSAY DISCUSSING HOW IT MAKES HIM QUEER
”This study explores the way that Rousseau’s Confessions disrupts the binary of sexual difference via Rousseau’s sexualization of and identification with the bottom. I argue that Rousseau’s exhibition of his bottom to groups of women is key for understanding a queer structure of sexuality that begins with the famous spanking episode. Ultimately, Rousseau’s queer bottom aligns him with the feminine sex while simultaneously differentiating him from the typical structures that would fix sexual or gender difference.“