18.3.11

I am so exhausted of bodies and women's parts blown up like balloons or cut into pieces so that they are adequately tiny or adequately round and their skin is sufficiently smooth so that we can reinscribe meanings and our own desire or fear of desire or inability to desire on to their available surfaces. I feel that public sexuality is such a stupid farce; as much as I want people to be comfortable with their bodies and sexuality, what has become so called 'sexual liberation' is the opposite of comfort - it is the putting-on of sexuality as a hard, impenetrable shell so that all we are given to jerk off to is that - those shapes and listless eyes. I don't want sex to have "meaning" in that old, stilted, oppressive way, but I want it to be relational and an exchange between people rather than spectacle, images.

5 comments:

  1. i'm not only talking about porn.
    you can fight anything you want. as for effect? that's debatable.

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  2. amen! "I want it to be relational and an exchange between people rather than spectacle, images": I couldn't have put it better myself.

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  3. Great post. I crept over here from goodreads via your red block. I agree with you about how sex has become this vapid, commodifiable thing to jerk off to, but don't you think it was inevitable when you look at the intersection of liberation, Paglia, and the internet? Sex is now this janus-faced thing which is both taboo and liberated at the same time(in america, at least), so when we are bombarded with it everywhere we turn it becomes this thing that people covet, even if they don't want to. I don't have an answer and to tell you the truth I'm just ranting and the real reason I'm writing at all(first blog comment ever) is that I want that first sentence you wrote up there - or just the few words surrounding "reinscribe" - may I please have it?

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  4. We are of like mind. I really like what you had to say.

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