I’m unexpectedly more busy than I know how to handle. Between the theory and excellent commentary my post last week is generating and all that I’m doing, I wake up each morning (or, afternoon as the case may be) and don’t know what I want to engage with first. What an incredible turn-around from last [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Breaking Pornography’s Fourth Wall: Erotic satisfaction as a function of gaze
I was wrong when I wrote that Lady Porn Day was “neither inspiring nor impressive.” It did inspire something. Specifically, aside from my own post on the subject, it inspired this comment from Kay: if we can accept that the porn that naturally appeals to submissive men is images of men being submissive, couldn’t the [...]
An appeal for safe intellectual exploration: Touch me thoughtfully
Ever since I became the focus of certain political and legal pressure, I’ve been scared of reflecting too casually on thoughts or feelings filling me. For a time, this blog became more like a broadcast station than a personal journal. I also became guarded because the people closest to me, the ones from whom I [...]
Women with male gazes: Why “Lady Porn Day” is neither inspiring, nor impressive
If you haven’t yet heard of Rabbit White’s latest project, Lady Porn Day, you probably will soon. She’s apparently discussing it with Dan Savage, Cindy Gallop of “Make Love Not Porn” fame has been pimping it on Twitter, and she’s been sending pseudo-press releases out via email (which I know because I got one). While [...]
Conversation with Clarisse Thorn about Kink, Inc.’s “hymen-gate”
“Internet time” makes “dog years” look like they happen in evolutionary terms; slow. So it’s no surprise that barely 2 months later, Kink, Inc.’s “hymen-gate” fiasco, as it’s been christened, is probably well beyond the memory of most sex bloggers. I already said most of my piece, but it’s still very, very interesting and brought [...]
Kink.com’s correspondent incompetence or deliberate malfeasance?
I may very well never get invited to The Armory again. You see, I was invited to visit after I wrote this scathing indictment of a Cybernet Entertainment, LLC press release (the company behind Kink.com and which I’ll here thereafter refer to as Kink, Inc., for brevity and rhetorical purpose) and the blogosphere’s response. A [...]
