Time’s Edge in the Garden of Pain (on Deleuze)
Stop there, an inch above the flesh. And in that gap desire lives, with the whoosh of the cane dissipating into silence. At that moment when anticipation fills the eyes, the cup the veins to...
View ArticleDiscontinuity
In response to Hazel Dooney’s exhibit: Lo-Res Nudes I’m looking at a woman. Stretched on a bed. Struggling towards pleasure like a woman in labour freeing her body of the dreadful progeny trapped...
View ArticleVince Pizarro’s: The End of Eroticism – A review of Catherine Millet’s ‘The...
“Ms. Millet spends a great deal of time describing the sheer physicality of sex, but through the lens of an erotically tense and desperate imagination: Her body is like a sexual filament, a carrier of...
View ArticleWe Deviants. We Happy Deviants
In the past month, the subject of how to discuss what we write has come up an uncanny number of times, from diverse quarters. I have a friend who writes erotic fiction, but never admits to it, because...
View ArticleLiterary Review’s Bad Sex Awards 2012 Nominees #LRBadSex2012
This year’s shortlist includes: The Yips by Nicola Barker The Adventuress by Nicholas Coleridge Infrared by Nancy Huston Rare Earth by Paul Mason Noughties by Ben Masters The Quiddity of Will Self by...
View ArticleSex scenes should be: Unobtrusive and Undemonstrative?
“Good sex writing, by contrast, is clear, precise and unillusioned in both senses: it refuses to take part in a diversionary pantomime of imagery; and it knows that sex is rooted in the physical. It is...
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Erotic Romance vs Erotica: Order vs Chaos
Hans Bellmer, The Brick Cell There are probably a number of outstanding erotica writers out there who have written delicious novels full of BDSM kinkiness wondering why their royalty checks don’t look...
View ArticleHistory Makes Us Monsters
“The history of sexual repression, inherited structures of power, and various forms of oppression push erotic encounters to turn relationships into arenas of struggle for self-assertion.” (Direk, Z....
View ArticleThe Neverending Seance: History Makes Monsters Of Us All (On Lacan-Bataille)
He is always with us: the man who raised you on the syrup of cruelty. There at the edge of your kiss, and the quicksnatch of my breath. In the meanfingered grip that leaves violet petals in the tender...
View ArticlePositivism or Pornography: The Two Extremes of Textual Sex in Literature.
Back in 2011, Jonathan Beckman, senior editor of the Literary Review, wrote an article explaining how writing qualifies for nomination at the Bad Sex Awards. He gave this description of what good sex...
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The Slavery of Insatiability
There has always been pornography. It could be said that the Venus of Willendorf is pornography in as much as it is an extravagant and idealised image of female fecundity. For centuries, organized...
View ArticleThere (Preface To Transgression, M. Foucault)
There, for I can only speak of there, never here, here there is no language, I open my mouth and make a noiseless sound which only you can decipher by the shape of my lips. There, in the barrage of...
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Finding Ways In
If you’re subscribed to this blog (I know a couple of you are) you may have wondered what I’m doing here with my posts. Here, at the very beginning of my journey, my readings and creative responses are...
View ArticleAngel may fuck men with huge dicks, but her heart belongs to us: Porn Gaze.
Angel is sucking the cock of a headless man and artfully looking into the camera. This is, in fact, a complex threesome, because although she is apparently busy assuring us that cocksucking is what...
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The Limits of Language: The Metaphysics of Eroticism
Die Grenzen Meiner Sprache, K. Rakoll, limited edition digital print, 2007. In his book “Erotism: Death and Sensuality,” George Bataille admitted to an uneasy relationship with poetry. In fact, he...
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Don’t Cha Wish…
Phallostethus cuulong, was discovered in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta I’ve been told by the almost disrobed couple on the bed, that I’m here on sufferance. I’m the quintessential loser in the car...
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The Thing That Goes Bump In The Night In Our Beds: Towards a definition of...
sculpture by Barbara Falender I’ve been given the task of defining ‘eroticism’ as the first step towards constructing my thesis. When I sat in my supervisor’s office and jotted this down, it wasn’t...
View ArticleFor he who has for so many years generously and willingly been the object of...
Here is the fracture: between the o and the v. A crack, a fissure where brilliant bliss breaks out between the walls of language and bathes me in blinding light, in excess. Here is the x-ray of the...
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