Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Beyond the Pleasure Principle First, in the document “Policing Public Sex in a Gay Theater, 1995” (Peiss, 454), I found the degree of detail mandated quite interesting. Not simply “what act,” which would be the only legitimate question in regards to sanitation, but full bodied descriptions, proximity of the voyeur, and the lighting. If an […]
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Tags: ars erotica, fantasy, HIV/AIDS, pleasure, reality, truth, voyeurism
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Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi (I wrote this on Saturday night, but couldn’t post it due to a lack of internet access) I’m writing this blog post from Rye, New York, home to Lunacon – a science fiction/fantasy convention that I’ve attended almost every year since I was an infant. With Professor Benavides’ talk on Vampires […]
Vampires, Sexuality, and SciFi
Tags: fantasy, lunacon, porn, science fiction, sexuality, vampires, women
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