Michel Perkins introduced his unique survey of modern erotic literature with George Bataille’s incisive quote: “Man goes contantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him.”(Perkins 1992). What serious novelist would deny themselves such a challenge as a topic? Yet most contemporary literary writers do, either by refusing to write about the sexual...
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It’s All About Mickey Mouse: SOPA and the reality of cultural production
Someone asked me to explain why I’m blacking out on January 18th. I’d like to be upfront about this: it is not simply the SOPA bill that I oppose. It is the entire way in which the concept of intellectual property has evolved. The US Constitution was one of the few national documents to...
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Body Art/Work/Action #temptingfailure
When I was six, I was taken to the opening of an art exhibit at a gallery. This is how I was taught how to experience art: you walk into the space, grab a glass of wine, stand in front of pictures, nod, leave. Very often, the work hanging on the wall has no...
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Dark on the 18th
This is just a little note to let you know that my site will be participating in the 8hr blackout in support of the anti-SOPA movement. I passionately support the intellectual property rights of creative artists. But I do not support the agendas that lurk behind the current SOPA bill. I thank you in...
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Show Me, Don’t Tell Me – Unless it’s Sex.
There were some really great comments on my last post about the literary world and its aversion to including erotic sex scenes in literary fiction or eliciting arousal in readers. Laughingly, and perhaps a little brutally, I said that it might have something to do with individual authors and their own feelings of sexual...
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Why Good Writers Write Bad Sex: An Exploration of Literary Prudery
Last year, Arifa Akbar wrote an interesting article in The Independent: Bad sex please, we’re British: Can fictive sex ever have artistic merit? I’ll be honest, I’ve been ruminating over this piece for about a year. First, let me give you some quotes from prize-winning writers and critics as to why they purposefully write...
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Possible opening lines for Literary Erotica Novels
These days, I wax, but only out of nostalgia. _______ Lydia considered fate had been inexplicably kind to her. She’d survived the 90′s with nothing more than a mild case of chlamydia. _______ Gilles was French. But he bathed with surprising regularity. _______ On her return from the launderette, Jackie discovered strange missives scrawled...
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“At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance”
How have representations of sex become so banal, so unthreatening, so uncritical? Because the body and sexuality are liberated as signs and only as signs. Through the sign-system, Baudrillard contends, ‘sexuality itself is diverted from its explosive finality’ and transformed into ‘promotional eroticism’ or ‘operational sexuality’. “Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality” by William Paulett I’m...
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Read My Lips on 4-Letter Words
I’m very chuffed to have been invited by Harley Moore to write a monthly column for 4-Letter Words, e-Book Eros‘ lively blogzine on erotic lit and its readers. My column is called ‘Read My Lips‘ and my post this month is on the myth that women aren’t visual, sexually. This month also features a...
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The Hard Goodbye: When the Artists We Admire Disappoint Us.
Today I’m sad. I’m sad because I read this: Frank Miller’s invective-filled hate piece about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s a pretty shocking piece of badly reasoned, idiosyncratic garbage. Not because he disagrees with the OWS folks, but because he unloaded a shitload of baseless hyperbole on a movement he clearly doesn’t even...
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