So where in the world is Nina Hartley ...?

[Daniel Harper]

On 5/20/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> It's so amusing, watching some little post, intended as a lark,
> metastasize into this massive set
> of Pavlovian responses. It's so "Now that I have your attention. . . ."



I'd been meaning to chat about Taormino/Pynchon for awhile... you just gave
me a nice "in" to the conversation. (Heh heh, I said "in"...)

But consider, as regards Pynchon and porn (JFKFC's combo of the day), how
> "out there"
> Gravity's Rainbow was/is upon its initial arrival. I'm going through a nth
> reading of that
> now-familier doorstop, having only just wandered into a triangular region
> described by Katje, Gottfried and Blicero [with a litle Rilke on the side],
> involving:
>
>               . . . .a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted
>               in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, with mock labia
>               and bright purple clitoris molded of---Madame had been
>               abject, pleading shortages---synthetic rubber and Mipolam,
>               the new polyvinyl chloride . . . tiny blades of stainless
> steel
>               bristle from lifelike pink humidity. . . .
>
> There's many more scenes in GR and AtD providing a convoluted stripe of
> porn, perhaps
> literary, perhaps complex, but porn nonetheless. Whatever TRP may say or
> think of his
> niece isn't the point here nearly as much as this more obvious link.


Which was, although perhaps I didn't make it clear, one of my primary
points. It's not just, "well, P is a modern-day liberal (probably anarchist)
and likes porn," but, "P writes some smutty books." It can be argued that P
is using sexual content in service of a story, whereas porn is looking
mainly to arouse, but I think P wouldn't spend the amount of time on this
material that he so clearly does unless he was basically okay with the
stuff.


Meanwhwile, here's the Geli Tripping collection, an online connection to yet
> another comodified desire:
>
> http://hippiegoddess.com/sample/html/sshow001.html


That's some good stuff.  I like the variety in body types, although I tend
not to be too interested in a "nature" setting -- I can't help but think of
getting sand and dirt in places where it isn't too comfortable.

Can anyone here look at that page and not think of Zoyd?

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--Daniel
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