Archive for the ‘March’ Category
Dangerous Liaisons
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita is equally greeted with acclaim for its rich literary style, and horror at the author’s attempt to rationalize sexual abuse of minors. If this written work were to have been based on a true story, much of the praise would be exchanged for gasps of outrage. However, perhaps due to […]
Dangerous Liaisons
Tags: Lolita; Pedophilia
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This Wunder Kammer
Saturday, March 16th, 2013
The modern museum is a direct descendant of the Victorian ‘cabinet of curiosities.’ In that era, the worldly, the wealthy and the wise make an art of collecting and ordering tchotchkes and artifacts from all across the heathen kingdoms of botany, biology, and colony. Within the wunderkammers, the perverse, the shocking, and the odd were […]
This Wunder Kammer
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
We are in the age of exhibitionism! Sex is an exciting product. It has market value! Who needs prostitution when you have the Internet? I found the cyber exhibit extremely entertaining. We are under the complete illusion that we can keep our sexual discourse somewhat private online. Even those amateur porn stars have this illusion […]
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Tags: Chobits, Museum of Sex
Posted in Alannah Fehrenbach, March, March 12, March 19, Participants | No Comments »
Sexual Darwinism
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Walking trough the animal sex exhibit in MoSex, I noticed one wall close to the entrance dedicated to Charles Darwin. This was, aside from the artist’s statement, the only purely conceptual panel in the exhibit. Darwin, who lived during the Victorian era, is widely credited as the founder of the theory of evolution through natural […]
Sexual Darwinism
Tags: Darwin, Evolution, Foucault, MoSex, Museums, Natural Selection
Posted in Eli Bierman, March 12 | 3 Comments »
Silicone Genitalia
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
There was something too flash about my visit to the Museum of Sex today. Perhaps I’m still exhausted from midterms, but I was unnerved by the awkward reactions people had–myself included. I walked by three women who were fascinated by the human models we could touch. One asks the other two, “You’d this would be […]
Silicone Genitalia
Posted in Kwame K. Ocran, March 12 | 1 Comment »
My Encounters in the Museum of Sex
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
The disconcerting fact, or perhaps, the charm of the Museum of Sex, is the constant zigzag of the exhibits from the realms of pornography to education. Needless to say, the experience is entirely subjective, as is the visit itself. What I took away today in an instructional setting was, I imagine, entirely different from the […]
My Encounters in the Museum of Sex
Tags: Behavior, Michel Foucault, Museum of Sex
Posted in Ariella Michal Medows, March 12 | 2 Comments »
MoSex
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Although I enjoyed my first visit to the Museum of Sex, I wasn’t all that impressed by its curation. There were exciting, educational elements for sure, but I at times I had difficulty navigating the exhibitions. For example, the installation that was located in the hallway between the “Universe of Desire” room and the Permanent […]
MoSex
Posted in March 12, Sophia Curran | 3 Comments »
MoSex 3/12/13
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
I appreciated the frankness of everything. It was interesting, and kind of fun, to look at pornographic images in a public space, with people all around contemplating, giggling, and saying funny things. I’d like to stand next to those rubber bodies that you’re allowed to touch for an entire day and watch how each visitor […]
MoSex 3/12/13
Tags: Age, Animal Sexuality, Internet, MoSex, Museum of Sex, porn, Youth
Posted in March 12, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
A Dangerous Intersection: Victoria C. Woodhull’s problematic denouncement of slavery
Monday, March 4th, 2013
By the late nineteenth century profound connections were being made between matters of political importance and discourses on sexuality. “The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery” by Victoria C. Woodhull presents a fascinating example of how the Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation movements were intrinsically and actively linked together. While she draws an important parallel between the […]
A Dangerous Intersection: Victoria C. Woodhull’s problematic denouncement of slavery
Tags: Black Liberation, intersectionality, sexual slavery, slavery, Victoria C. Woodhull, Women's Rights
Posted in March 5, Sophia Curran | 2 Comments »
Cause and Effect: How our values have changed over time.
Monday, March 4th, 2013
What is most compelling about these readings is that they take us through a morphing of sexuality. I keep coming back to the timeline we drew in class and applying the Foucauldian progression of sexuality to the American sexual identity that has its origins in Europe. Going back to Part Five in History of Sexuality […]
Cause and Effect: How our values have changed over time.
Tags: birth control, civil disobedience, Comstock, Law, Michel Foucault, obscenity, survival instinct
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