Queer Theory & Futurism

[alice wellintown]

Sexuality has biological, physical, and emotional aspects. The
expresssion or performance aspect is not what sexuality is *all*
about. That said, and since my point is about performance and
expression, I won't quibble or diddle. In IV P is concerned with the
shifts in narrative and so the argument that, ironically (?),  a
new-feminism that embraces both a male gaze and a professional
exhibitionism, a mechanical bride swing from a stripper's pole or from
a real estate magnet's tie, seems worth considering.


In the following, a study of gay pornography from immediately
preceeding the events at Stonewall to the years shortly there after,
Jeremiah Smith plots the quick and radical shift in the construction
of gay bodies, gay lives as presented by the producers of gay
pornography: Gone are the days of transparent politics catering to the
heterosexual censors, lost in favor of a presentation of more
truthful, more real, homosexual lifestyles.

>From Johnson to Nixon: Narrative Shifts in Gay Male Pornography
Jeremiah Smith
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/011/Fj/fromjohnson.htm


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:03 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:45 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The lament for the paved paradise, for the chances for spontaneous
>> fortune wheels of fogs turning and turning as seasons and painted
>> ponies now slouching toward Nixonland to be borne on the backs of
>> laborers betrayed by their brethren, P's dirge is muted by the
>> cacophony of the sex wars and race wars and wars wars wars. Then and
>> Eye for and I. And a Me. And a Mine. No one frightened of playing it.
>> The wheel of fortune turned by a lady on the Tube. Meet the New Boss!
>> A New Kind of Feminism is Born!
>
> _______________
> what herb doth thoust inspire such prattle, my ladyship, Tis the grip
> again?
>>
>> 'Female Chauvinist Pigs': Girls Gone Wild
>>
>> Our popular culture, she argues, has embraced a model of female
>> sexuality that comes straight from pornography and strip clubs, in
>> which the woman's job is to excite and titillate - to perform for men.
>> According to Levy, women have bought into this by altering their
>> bodies surgically and cosmetically, and - more insidiously - by
>> confusing sexual power with power, so that embracing this caricaturish
>> form of sexuality becomes, in their minds, a perverse kind of
>> feminism.
>
> _________
> sexuality is all about performance, many people like to perform, that's all
> she probably meant to say straight pornography (what is straight pornography
> anyway?)  models female sexuality (does that mean gay pornography (and what
> really is gay pornography?) models male or female sexuality (based on who's
> watching, of course) (and really what is male sexuality, female sexuality?)
> rich
>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18egan.html
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