By becoming printed the Orient also became mere facts, and were often primitized and de-civilized as if they were ‘frozen in the past’. A common example of this occurred with the sexualization of the Orient within general discourse. The Occident, who take much pride in obtaining control over there sexual desires, consider themselves ‘civilized’. However, when lustful or whorish behaviour to the Western eye occurs it is automatically considered ‘un-civilized’. Said uses an example from Flaubert’s observations of the Orient depicting behaviour that may seem grotesque to that of the Western mind. Said further states how, “the Orient is watched, since its almost (but never quite) offensive behaviour issues out of a reservoir of infinite peculiarity; the European…is a watcher, never involved always detached” (103). In this sense, the Occident distinguishes themselves as the more civilized and advanced culture in comparison to the Orient, a culture that seems to remain possessed by primal desires.

f them and undermining cultural distinctions. Within the scope of Orientalism Said recognized the de-humanization of the Orient through textualization, the de

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