The Science of a Winkup by Dr. Lester Simon
1. Science thrives where there is doubt, uncertainty and unanswered questions. Can we use science to answer the challenging question: Why does a respectable woman or man engage in a lewd winkup in public during carnival?
2. Let’s start by ignoring those couples, mixed or unmixed, who are carrying on undercover within or without the band. They are having sex or getting off some other way. They are not our primary concern in this exploration of lewd winkup at carnival. Neither are we overtly concerned about the hapless man who was told to go aside and “Wet you hand and wait for me.” Poor man. He’s still whetting.
3. We are concerned with the ones in public view. Without the staring eyes of the public,
including those doing the winkup and those spectators not doing the winkup, there is no strong impetus to winkup, especially to do the lewd winkup.
4. The science comes in if we regard and try to apply the seminal work on drug addiction by American psychologist, Dr Bruce Alexander.
5. Rats in cages have access to two types of bottles. One bottle has water only. The other bottle has water infused with mind-altering drugs. The rats almost invariably choose the water with the drugs, even to the point of their death.
6. Dr Alexander changed the experiment. He put the rats in cages that have the same two types of water bottles but instead of isolated cages, the rats are in a huge common cage called Rat Park. In Rat Park, they also have cheese, tunnels, other rats to play with and opportunity for plenty sex.
7. In Rat Park, he discovered that the rats use less or none of the water with the drugs and more or all of the water without the mind-altering drugs. A paradigm environmental shift.
8. Can it be that there is something missing in the lives of those respectable women and men doing the lewd winkup? What would happen if they were exposed to regular outings of drama, plays, music and theatre, dance, community gardens and games, public parks, good healthy food and plain water, and some really good, regular kinky or even plain, unadulterated, missionary sex at home? Would they be less likely to engage in public lewdness at carnival?
9. And what about getting away from the incessant use of smart phones, with promenades after lots to park their vehicles, regular street festivals and other real public social media events of different types at different times of the year? Tourism begins at home. Real public access to every single one of our 365 beaches. And learn how to swim. Maybe we need some regular volumes of public Air on the G String, for those who haven’t heard Johann Sebastian Bach. Or they need to hear, see and traverse the Trail of the Boomsie by David Rudder.
10. An alternative view is that we don’t need to invoke science to explain the public lewdness. Maybe it’s a jealous reaction to the alleged goings on at some very exclusive private carnival parties. There are whispers and zippers of private sexual games. Designed for pusillanimous patrons stinkingly full of cash but devoid of basal human love and kindness, thirsting for the quenching waters from the ancient wells of our ancestors and families. Replaced by a cocktail of games with deliberate playful misinterpretations of native songs, such as Lucinda Tight, Tight, Tight; Fire in the Backseat; and the crowd pleaser, Ah Coming Down to Talk to You. Good grief! Your vileness inches to infinity.
11. Whichever is the explanation, there will always be winkup. Winkup will never die. Winkup is the anatomy of being. What if we change the environment in which people live, work, play, interact and interplay in our social intercourse, will we be able to reduce the lewdness and the public addiction to crassness?
12. However, one caveat attends. We may have to face one serious and unhealthy side effect with any such social and environmental changes.
13. The humongous rats in the city may join us!
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Wow! Dr. Simon I have to give it to you in my amazement in where the hell you get these ideas from for your articles. I believe in science and am happy to see you have focused on the science of WINKUP 🤣🤣. Anyway, dance and movement always exist and is a fundamental part of human culture. Through the evolution of humans from quadrupedalism to bipedalism, the human anatomy was greatly freed up for such movements as the WINKUP lol lol lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijK0WTB_-RY&list=RDQMGvdvaCFvCEY&start_radio=1
Dirty dancing is nothing new. Although it was not done in public on the street, but in the various night clubs. The movie Dirty Dancing and Greace Lighting were some of the box office hits that made the stars rich. But we look at several old cultures in Africa and Asia and we see lewed dancing in the form of Belly dancers being done before Kings, Queens and Pharao’s. It is an art for a women to be able to shake her hips so fast from left to right. But like always when things are done by our pwn people we take it down to the gutter. It becomes something disrespedcrtful and rude. While the onlooking white tourist women wil from time to time try to see if they have it in them to whine like that. Go Low. as sang by MICHELLE ISLAND SPICE MERCHANT. In Indian cultuires and Arabian cultures they have Belly Dance Competitions. Do you think we can elevate wink-up and hold wink-up compitotion.
All of our Soca Artists in partricular the female, must show on stage that they can whine. Sorry Tian you cannot whine at all, but your music is good. But Denise Plumber gave us the Dollar Wine. And Alison Hinds say Roll it Gal.
All I say is we need to see the art in being able to whine and perhaps eleicate it from being a dirty thing done in the street to a real art. With people holding dnace classes for those wanting to learn to Whine like that. Like the hawaiian dance the Hula: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wHZYQioPhLk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJDG3ulq8po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PlMdvY9txk&list=RD4PlMdvY9txk&start_radio=1
And don’t tell me what Michael Jackson was doing putting his hand on his crotch and all the ladies went wild
Every year y’all try to be pseudo deep about people skinning out during Carnival!
I saw an accomplished lawyer who has traveled the world in t- shirt mas and she plays mas and winks up regularly.
There are managers and educated people who have access to plays, parks and the finer things in life who still participate. People just wanna bruck out! That’s the science.
Excellent commentary. Whatever the reasons for the winkup, what is most distressing is that this alone is expected to define our dance “culture”, regardless of whether we agree with it or not, and we have no other options for wholesome entertainment and cultural “parades”. One child who attended a “parade” described parade dancing to another child who did not attend as “The women have to wine on the front of the men.” Notice the words “have to”. These innocent children think this is something that has to be done. They don’t realize it’s a choice. They grow up to believe it is our “culture”. So, it gets passed on. Our African forefathers never danced like that. Perhaps the dance originated as a desperate attempt by post-slavery women to get attention from post-slavery men who are not particularly committed to them. Perhaps that desperation to be viewed as desirable is part of what makes it so distasteful as opposed to artistic. The recent extreme almost nude appearances and the lack of consideration of who might be watching (such as children) make it even more revolting to many. Other cultures have more subtle dances that appear more artistic. People should “bruck out” in private with their significant other not in public in front of the whole world. But, that’s just my opinion. Carry on if you must.
Btw Although the commentary is excellent with it’s suggestions, it’s not particularly scientific. It just contains a lot of unproven assumptions/hypotheses. It would be good to conduct some research, even just via surveys to really determine why people “wink up”.
surveys plus observations of lives of actual human beings
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