Category Archives: Theory Fetish

The web and the death of pornographic context

The best bit of Nerve’s deceptively swift history of how sex drove the internet, from ARPAnet to gonzo pro/am sites: “Yet, as normalized as online pornography may be, the material itself has become increasingly stripped of any greater context or meaning… The digital revolution has accelerated this trend greatly — partially because bandwidth costs money, [...]

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Eve Sedgwick, Marilyn Chambers, RIP

Two luminaries of sex culture that I would have paid dear money to see tangle live & in person on desire, performance, and politics passed away Sunday — queer theory provocateur Eve Sedgwick and All-American porn princess Marilyn Chambers. Sedgwick’s friend Cathy Davidson writes that Eve died at her partner’s side. 56 year old Chambers [...]

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Does One Need To Be Chokefucked To Be a Reliable Porn Expert?

Who are our master porn experts? We’ve had classy theorists (and class favorites might be Laura Kipnis and Linda Williams), activist thinkers (two from the Libertarian camp alone being Nadine Strossen and Wendy McElroy), and not the least of which, porn star philosophers (Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, and Nina Hartley make a representative triumvirate). [...]

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Work Your Racial Fetishization Out On the Mat

“Want to watch some fetish this morning?”
“Mixed wrestling, that is rich. I wonder if am a monster, the people behind me who can see my screen are talking about Apartheid reconciliation.”
“Make that suggestion. More mixed wrestling.”
“Yes, Gandhi’s granddaughter, who I met, and was stewarding the effort in South Africa at the time, would, in [...]

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I Heart Sex; Am I The Only One?

There’s no such thing as talking too much about sex in a sex-mad world. Sex educators, sex writers, and the sex media are so often in the business of talking and thinking sex, however, that we often forget to say along with that how much we heart sex itself — sex all for its [...]

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