Complex Simplicity

Cheryl Dunye on her now classic 1996 film The Watermelon Woman

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Wolf pup howling for the first time

“The scene was different back then.  All the adult clubs were mob controlled.  It all flowed up to some guy named Matty The Horse.  Honestly the mob guys never bothered me.  They were cool, and I liked how they dressed.  They wore custom made suits.  And they went to hair stylists, not barbers.  These guys wouldn’t even let you touch their hair when you were fucking them.  Not that I ever fucked them.  Because I never turned tricks.  Well, except for one time.  I took a job from this woman named Madame Blanche.  She controlled all the high dollar prostitutes back then.  She was like the Internet, could get you anything you wanted.  And all the powerful men came to her because she never talked.  She set me up with a department store magnate who wanted a black girl dressed like a maid.  I thought I could do it.  But when I got to his hotel room, he wanted to spank me with a real belt.  So that was it for me.  I was done.  But Madame Blanche set my best friend Vicki up with The President every time he came to New York.  And don’t you dare write his name cause I can’t afford the lawyers. But he’d always spend an hour with her.  He’d send a car to pick her up, bring her to his hotel room, put a Secret Service agent in front of the door, and get this: all he ever did was eat her pussy!”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (via 5139321966)

Sexual Temperance Spoon: The only spoon that STOPS stirring!

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