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Žižek: Canned Laughter and Narrative Free Porn (NSFW)
Have you gotten off yet? Good, now get back to being productive so you can afford to buy her tits. I’ve been delving into Žižek today, because he has emerged as one of the leading and most vocal of...
View ArticleGuardian Articles on the Bad Sex Awards
Bad sex writing, of course, has its place in literature – and some of it is so bad, that it’s actually good (just check out bad sex award nominee Lee Child). I just wish it didn’t take up quite so much...
View ArticleMartin Amis at the Miami Book Fair
View the story “There is no good literary sex scene” on Storify
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Coldness & Cruelty: Deleuze on Sacher-Masoch
My copy of Masochism, by Deleuze is quickly turning neon with highlighting. Here are a few beautiful passages to ponder deeply on: “What is the meaning of the meeting of violence and sexuality in such...
View ArticleTime’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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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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...
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Towards a Definition of Eroticism (Draft)
When I started this blog, I decided to make my intellectual journey through the PhD process public. I did this partly because, as a creative writer, I started writing on the net and have often felt...
View ArticleBy Far the Best Review of Fifty Shades of Grey – Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘Traveling...
For someone who doesn’t think sex belongs on the page, Andrew O’Hagan has certainly read a lot of it. Of course, you can imagine, I disagree with him. Sex, like all other facets of life, does belong on...
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In Writing the Erotic: Why Stories are Experimentation
I’m going to start out with what sounds like a very naive statement: writing is a very different act from thinking or speaking. I have often been involved in discussions with other writers where we...
View ArticleWrestling with Porn: @_Monocle_ ‘s subversion of Barthes.
Raziel Moore offers a rather remarkable re-reading of Roland Barthes’ ‘The World of Wrestling’ essay, in his ‘Mythologies’ collection. It’s an incredibly fertile act of paraphrase and refocus: “In the...
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