Mar 162020
- I haven’t seen Slave Play, a Broadway play about three interracial couples going through raceplay sexual scenarios as couples’ therapy, but this video essay/review considers this historically-charged form of sexuality.
- American Theatre magazine also has an in-depth interview with Slave Play’s author, Jeremy O. Harris.
- A 2012 review of an exhibition of Nancy Grossman’s sculptures of heads covered in black leather and straps.
- Euronews has a short piece and video on the history of “tart cards”, once used by sex workers to advertise in the UK, often posted in phone booths. These frequently offered sadomasochistic or fetishistic services.
- Dr. Justin Lehmiller discusses the prevalence of fantasies of “forced” sex and what they mean.
- On The Advocate, Alexander “Beastly” Cheves has a slideshow on what kinky gay men can teach the world about love, sex and relationships. E.g. “No one relationship is the “right” one.”, “When the pleasure stops or the learning ends, there’s no need to stay. “
- A Muslim woman writes about her sexuality while wearing a burka. “One friend said she often purposely initiated intimacy before her husband went to work. […] This was in stark contrast to when we women went out in public. We walked as smoothly as we could, so our hips wouldn’t evoke interest.”
- The Washington Post discusses how the TV series iZombie, about a woman who contracts an undead virus and solves murders by literally eating the brains of the victims, is better on issues of consent than most TV. “Widely, the conscientious monsters, creatures and spirits of contemporary fantasy and horror TV figure out how to navigate healthy sexual relationships with their mortal romantic counterparts.”
- How did the Marquis de Sade’s notorious 120 Days of Sodom, thought to be lost for more than a century, go from pornography to a Penguin Classic?
