Erotic Dissertation

VICE pal Petra Collins caused an entertaining storm of controversy this week when she designed a t-shirt for American Apparel with a simplistic line drawing depicting a masturbating, menstruating woma…

Why are female physiological situations deemed as "gross"? Are female bodily functions another form of 'control' over female sexuality?

New York artist Sophia Wallace wants you -- and everyone you know -- to be cliterate.

according to the Ancient Greeks Desire is a pause, it makes your knees tremble and it is uncontrollable.

You need pleasure to subside desire. pleasure is narcotic it is sleep, it is oblivion.

An active partner can have enough pleasure to quench desire because their semen (which comes from an area in the anus) emerges completely. A passive partner (like a woman) never has her desire quenched and that is why she is always paused... 

the humour of desire has to be expelled in order for the bodies to 'dry out'. women never do....

men are affected in their bodies

women are affected 'inside'. (which is why men can't understand that women are 'affected' when they sleep around... because it is a physical thing...)

sex - the act; biological difference

gender - social shaping, cultural distinction

sexuality- aspects of personal and social life which have erotic significance. - fluid.

Sandra Lee Bartky writes: “the disciplinary project of femininity is a “set-up”: it requires such radical and extensive measures of bodily transformation that virtually every woman who gives herself to it is destined in some degree to fail. Thus, a measure of shame is added to a woman’s sense that the body she inhabits is deficient: she ought to take better care of herself; she might after all have jogged that last mile. “ (139)

Warning: The captions of this post are excerpts from the featured writers' erotic literature and contain sexually explicit language.  Who are the people behind erotic fiction, those accounts of racy affairs and clandestine romances so often stashed away in secret, read in the privacy of ones home?

What is woman?

Beauvoir asks.

Is it the female body?

Historically women HAVE BEEN determined by their bodies.

What happens from the moment we can change them? Haven’t we always been able to change them? from piercings to tattoos to birth-control and abortions. 

Nowadays there is much more “control” over our bodies. We can diet and exercise or go fat and plump. We can plastic 'surgerice' ourselves galore!

but, aren’t we still very determined by our bodies? the way the outside world perceives us, the way we perceive ourselves!

(how is that perception related to sexuality and the way it is lived?)

Re-reading "The Golden Ass"...

yes, curiosity is a main theme, but so are words. What can be said and what cannot. 

Seducción, sexo y libros. Un menage à trois que la industrial editorial provoca y fomenta para conseguir beneficios, mercantilizando la literatura y a sus lectoras hasta lo obsceno. O, como prefier...

is this the only type of readers women can strive to be? or others think men women can only strive to this?