#testing grounds

Long notes held until the four-part harmony was perfect enough for their deeply loved flesh.

Listen to the sound through one another’s skin. Preserve the sound through membrane and water, to find our form in corresponding.

It is no mere coincidence that the cult of gothic fiction reached its apex at the very moment when gender and sexuality were beginning to be codified for modern culture. In fact, gothic fiction offered a testing ground for many unauthorized genders and sexualities, including sodomy, tribadism, romantic friendship (male and female), incest, pedophilia, sadism, masochism, necrophilia, cannibalism, masculinized females, feminized males, miscegenation, and so on.