On Falsehood and The Charlatan Lie

Karen Barna
6 min readJan 8, 2021

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Image of Phryne a famous “prostitute” from ancient Greece who was described as educated, sophisticated, and aromatic. I personally believe she may have been a very lucrative businesswoman. There were female prostitutes spoken of in the Bible too, and each served God in a specific way. Gomer was a prostitute and God had the prophet Hosea marry her because God wanted their union to be a symbol of “God’s love to an unfaithful Church.” The history entwined with this narrative behind the story of a harlot woman named Gomer ultimately revealed how power inevitably seeks sanctification.

I’ve been thinking about how we lie. How there are so many different types of lies. Take, for instance, the time I made love to a man whom I didn’t truly love nor found very attractive and made him feel like he was truly loved and desired by a woman, if only for one night. If only for those few hours I made a piece of his soul whole again, and a piece of mine as well, then what was the harm in that? Is there not an art belonging to a healer? The art of making men feel whole again? Then why is it that these acts are cast to a label called “darkness” and “sin”? Why are women who perform these types of services labeled “Jezebel”, “Harlot”, and “Whore” by the men who fear them? And why are the men who accept these women’s services called “Whoremasters”? Isn’t that the lie, the perversion of Truth? The lie belonging to the ego of men and women who are the narcissists of Western culture? Those men and women who place themselves above other men rather than identify with what is found in man’s true nature? Yet this is but another illusion brought on by Falsehood. When the Truth to living a life in this chaotic, crazy world is that men find themselves at periodic low points in their lives. When they do need a “filler”, a “bandage”, some “medicine”. We have been called “Love Doctors”, the sha-women for men’s libido, providing the spark needed to rekindle men’s confidence. The “Lie.” As if this isn’t part of the recipe for man’s “perfectibility?” Although men and women will never be perfect, shouldn’t this be considered the therapy for healing men’s fractured souls? So that some semblance of normal may be achieved, if only for a little while. Perhaps this is why the occupation has endured for so long because all factors cannot be controlled. Life sometimes gives us lemons and men and women both do what they must to survive.

“The paranoia and fear surrounding female sexuality is born out of the paternal superego based in defensive protection for the idealization of father and of the dominant masculine order. It has its origins in the defense against the omnipotent bad mother — omnipotent because she is needed, omnipotent because she is desired, omnipotent because she is identified with, omnipotent because she is hated, omnipotent because she is seen to have murdered the father (Weiland, 1996).”

Beautiful women who give good loving are envied by both men and women alike. They are envied because what they have is desired by others, and what they possess wants to be captured by those that envy them. And herein lies the twisted distortion that is cast upon their heads, the enviers cast these women in the role of mythical Evil, carefully fashioning their mythical seduction for their viewing audience in damage control for their own wounded narcissistic egos. It is the lie told by some “dog-faced” feminist who, stuck in her self referential inertia, is angry because she unconsciously fears her own sexuality or her growing maturity (Dijkstra, 1986; Walker, 1998; Foucault, 1978). The reality that she in some way has been denied a penis. So, she refuses to wear make-up, high heels, and revealing clothing because she doesn’t want to be “held down” by “men like Donald Trump”, billionaires who purchase their beauties like the scotch & cigars they consume after closing a large business venture. When she doesn’t even realize that part of what she believes may belong to her own unanalyzed unconscious past in the repudiation of the maternal body.

Shouldn’t people be valued for what they can give to the world? And those who take from the world despised and outcast? But what do these “harlot” women take from the world? The Truth, NOTHING! The Truth, people like Donald Trump aren’t taking women from the world that don’t want to be “kept women.” He’s taking women who aren’t afraid of their sexuality. Women who aren’t afraid to be flaunted and exposed, even used as a prop on some guy’s arm. What’s wrong with using your body as a prop anyway? Politicians do it all the time, but we don’t recognize it as such. This is why women like Melanie Trump are hated and feared because they are unafraid to expose their own sense of felt sexuality, and people fear that courageous act. These unanalyzed unconscious phantasies are so pervasive in our culture, my writing is sure to be met with outrage and called an “abomination” to feminism. But I say, unless you have been analyzed by a professional psychotherapist for several years, and have been told that “you yourself, do not possess any unconscious phantasies towards women,” this psychoanalytic Truth stands STEADFAST! Female sexuality is feared by both men and women alike. If you harbor such hatred you are part of the problem for the hatred slung at women because of their female sexuality. You are part of the problem responsible for the murder of thousands of prostitutes. It is because of people like you, possessing similar unanalyzed unconscious phantasies surrounding female sexuality that women like Melanie keep getting crapped upon. Stop blaming women for other people’s paranoia and delusional irrationality surrounding female sexuality!

The flip-side to this argument is the fact that feminist play it “safe” by refusing to wear make-up, high heels, and revealing clothing simply because most of the world fears female sexuality. In performing this behavior feminists remove a target off their backs, but they are unconsciously playing into the mainstream of unconscious unanalyzed fear recapitulated throughout history’s playbook and using the same “prop” strategy I might add. There is a reason why the matronly aging body does not pose the same threat to men and women like a Melanie Trump body in a scantly bathing suit. It’s perceived as “diseased”. The strategy of frolicking around in a scantly two-piece bathing suit does not make others feel safe. This strategy poses an unconscious threat to the women who despise it and the men who fear its power.

There’s a reason why prostitutes are murdered. There’s a reason why women are beaten unconscious by their husbands but it’s not because they dressed like prostitutes or purchased the wrong type of laundry detergent. If you think dressing like my mother while she was raising five children is the answer to combating misogynistic oppression, I have to seriously question your logic and problem-solving capabilities. It may seem like a “safe” approach to dress as a religious housewife, but this is only an illusion. It’s an illusion that provides a nice blanket of comfort to others because you and yours can kid yourself that “you aren’t like them”. Those unholy women whose “filth” men desire. It’s an illusion because it denies women the right to freely express themselves and showcase their unique attributes. It’s as much of an illusion to believe Donald Trump keeps women “down” which is another Falsehood. Therein lies the deception, the dupe, the distortion, the “damage control”. It’s called “spin” and spin is used to see how a certain piece of information is received by the public, the viewing audience, and whether or not there might be “kickback.” It’s the same as a publicist calling a friendly member of the press letting them in on some scandalous piece of information. When the journalist writes about the so-called scandal the next day in the newspaper, the publicist can see what type of “kickback” his information has generated. This is done in political administrations ALL THE TIME! (History Channel, America’s Book of Secrets, E1S3, 2020) What’s the kickback in the “spin of dressing like a saint so I can make people feel “safe” and achieve my political agenda? I might win the popular vote and get elected to an office where I can monopolize on my own political agenda. The “kickback” is, you make them believe the illusion, and the illusion is a lie people are willing to pay you money for.

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Christina Weiland. (1996). ‘Matricide and Destructiveness: Infantile Anxieties and Technological Culture.’ British Journal of Psychotherapy 12, №3; 300–313.

Bram Dijkstra. (1986). Idols of Perversity; Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture. New York. Oxford University Press.

Michelle Boulous Walker. (1998) Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading silence. New York. Routledge.

Michael Foucault. (1978). The History of Sexuality. New York. Pantheon Books.

History Channel. America’s Book of Secrets: White House Secrets and Scandals. E1S1. Aired on August 11, 2020.

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Karen Barna
Karen Barna

Written by Karen Barna

I am a Targeted Individual suffering electronic harassment. I write about gender difference and object relations and feminism. I am Gen. X

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