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    The passage discusses physical intimacy as a basic human need and how the song 'Sexual Healing' uses sex to heal emotional distress.

    The song is about using sex to heal emotional instability and stress.

    It conveys its message through the use of personification and creating a sensual atmosphere.

    Intertextuality-

    Sexual Healing
    By Marvin Gaye
    Hou U

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs
    Introduction- Physical Intimacy as a Basic Human
    Need
    To form strong, long-lasting bonds, intimacy is
    required to fulfil a human’s basic need: it’s what
    human beings crave in order to create a safe,
    loving and happy relationship, and intimacy is a
    key ingredient. Furthermore, in humans, sex is a
    primal urge. It is a part of an instinct that drives
    us, just as it does any other animal or being, to
    procreate and continue the species. For some, it
    guides a lot of what they do.
    Sexual Healing

    Intertextuality
    Whenever blue teardrops are falling
    And my emotional stability is leaving me
    There is something I can do
    I can get on the telephone and call you up baby, and
    Honey I know you'll be there to heal me
    The love you give to me will free me
    If you don't know the thing you're dealing
    Oh I can tell you, darling, that it's Sexual Healing
    Tone/Mood Structure
    The song is organised like a poem and uses the
    rhyme scheme AABB in the verses, ABAA in the
    The song aims to ignite the inner desires of the
    bridge and AABBCC in the chorus. This
    listeners and makes the audience feel erotic.
    consistent rhyming pattern creates a rhythmic
    The text creates a sensual and calming
    effect and smooth listening experience for the
    atmosphere that allows the audience to sink
    audience.
    into the music and get in the mood.

    Baby I'm hot just like an oven


    I need some lovin'
    And baby, I can't hold it much longer
    It's getting stronger and stronger
    Audience/
    Purpose Famous music writer David Ritz wrote the song
    for Marvin Gaye. Claiming that Gaye had been
    viewing an obsessive amount of pornographic
    comic books and was in rock bottom. So he
    advised Gaye he needed "sexual healing". When
    Ritz explained to Gaye what that meant, Gaye
    told him to "write a poem" while Gaye came up
    with the melody, for the purpose of healing
    Gaye’s emotional stress from depression and
    drug addiction. Mirroring Kathy’s purpose for sex.
    Sex in NLMG
    Kathy H is a clone who is confined within the walls of Hailsham where she guided into
    the life of becoming an organ donor. As the clones grow older and begin to experience
    puberty, they come to realize that something they are in complete charge of and no one
    can dictate is their own sex lives. when Kathy and her fellow clones first begin to
    experience puberty and sexual urges, being infertile has a negative impact on the way
    they view and have sex. They attempt to perceive sex in the same manner that humans
    do, with care, respect, and caution; however, not being able to reproduce causes Kathy
    to see sex as a game, and use it as a distraction from their lives as organ donors.
    Reflecting Kathy’s desire for constant sexual healing, which is a treatment where a
    person's inner turmoil and emotional pain is healed by sex.
    While Ishiguro’s title “Never Let
    Content/ Me Go” suggests that the story
    Theme will be about holding on,
    namely to relationships and
    memories, the story is also
    Theme- Relationships & Personal
    Growth
    explores the value of letting
    things go as a way to transform
    In the song Marvin Gaye is singing about and mature. Showing human
    sex and how he needs sexual healing when relationships between the
    he is emotionally unstable. He calls a
    clones and their personal
    woman on the phone that can provide him
    with the treatment that he needs. The main
    growth
    idea of the song is conveying sex as a basic
    human need and is able to heal personal
    and collective traumas.
    NLMG

    Kazuo Ishiguro also utilize pathetic


    fallacy to convey emotions of the
    clones. For instance, prior to Ruth’s
    completion, there was strong
    foreshadowing and pathetic fallacy
    Stylistic Device to prepare readers for her
    inevitable death.
    The writers of the song use personification to
    convey the message of the need of sexual
    healing when one is distraught. The text
    Whenever blue teardrops personifies rain to be blue teardrops falling
    are falling and emotional stability to be someone dear to
    And my emotional stability the writer that has left, creating a pathetic
    is leaving me fallacy that reflects Marvin Gaye’s emotional
    distress when he lacks physical support.
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