pornography
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On reading poems from Donika Kelly’s ‘Bestiary’ in jail.
Will poems about lovelorn bowerbirds help men in jail for domestic violence? At least the words are beautiful.
abuse, abusive relationships, affirmative consent, AI, art, assault, Bestiary, Bower, bowerbird, Bruce Weigl, child abuse, Child Beater, consent, CPS, creation, DCS, desire, domestic, domestic violence, Donika Kelly, drinking, Heartbreak, incarceration, jail poetry, Kavanaugh, kindness, love, love poems, mass incarceration, mouse, objectification, poems, poetry, pornography, pre-emptive excuses, relationships, respect, romance, sex education, sexual assault, sexuality, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, That Cat, The Impossible, trauma, violence, What Gay Porn Has Done for Me, writing, writing poetry
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On Daniel Handler’s “All the Dirty Parts”
Heartbreak hurts. Reading will help. And mayhaps Daniel Handler’s “All the Dirty Parts” is a book kids will actually want to read.
All the Dirty Parts, cyanide, Daniel Handler, dating, English class, erotica, Ethan Frome, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Heartbreak, high school, In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Love in the Time of Cholera, Marcel Proust, organic synthesis, pornography, relationships, sex, sex ed, The Magus, unrequited love, Within a Budding Grove
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On the future of sex (& Emily Witt’s ‘Future Sex’).
Do-it-yourself, artistic, activist, maker culture … or sexual experimentation & psychedelic drugs? I know which future I’d prefer.
Breakfast of Champions, Burning Man, desensitization, Emily Witt, erotic art, extramarital daliance with consent, feminism, future sex, Gerewol, human evolution, human planet, hyperbolic optimism, James Joyce, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Cacho, penis bone, polyamory, porn culture, pornography, responsible hedonism, Rodin, sexuality, Slavery Inc, Ulysses
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On Peggy Orenstein’s Girls and Sex.
Turns out it’s still a good idea to talk to your kids.
Amy Schalet, Charis Denison, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, dinosaur princess, Dutch vs. American parents, Girls & Sex, good lovers are good listeners, Haruki Murakami, Meatloaf, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights, Peggy Orenstein, performative sexuality, pop porn, pornification, pornography, problems with pop porn, sex ed, sexual education, Sputnik Sweetheart, Zara Whites -
On reading Playboy from the 1970s.
Take away the rampant chauvinism and Playboys from the sixties and seventies are actually pretty good magazines.
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On child pornography & an odd coincidence in timing.
Reading about the prosecution of a well-known fast food spokesperson has felt unnerving to me. In part because it’s always sad to hear about the type of activity he was convicted of. And in part because that particular well-known fast food spokesperson is featured in my (unpublished) book & is described in dialogue as being…
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