* I first heard of this brilliant acapella group, The Kinsey Sicks, via Dan. His great blog Overuse Of The Exclamation, now features a post about this wonderful quartet. Dan calls them wittily, The Chicks With Schticks! Of course, ‘Kinsey Sicks’ refers to the Kinsey scale, devised by Alfred Kinsey, aka Dr Sex. ‘Kinsey 6′ indicates someone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Freud’
Dragapella! Introducing The Kinsey Sicks
Posted: April 17, 2012 in bisexuality, Blogging, FreudTags: Freud, Kinsey, Kinsey Sicks, Music, Overuse of the exclamation
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Letter From An Alien: A Dangerous Method
Posted: February 28, 2012 in Freud, Identity, Letters From An Alien, MasculinitiesTags: A Dangerous Method, Freud, Jung, Letters From An Alien, Salperin
Some notes on seeing A Dangerous Method: I hate Keira Knightley usually but I thought she acted quite well in this. I liked how her contortions of emotional pain were exactly the same expressions in tone, as when she was approaching orgasm due to the beatings from Jung. The portrayal of female masochism as a result of [...]
In Defence Of… Masochism
Posted: February 15, 2012 in Feminism, Freud, Gender Violence, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, Rihanna, UncategorizedTags: Chris Brown, Freud, Gender violence, Mark Simpson, masochism, Rihanna
Full disclosure: I am a full-blown, perverse, emotional and sometimes physical masochist. To be honest, I – and Freud - think masochism is actually an aspect of all of our psyches and sexualities. Maybe to a greater or lesser degree depending on the person, but on some level or another we can all relate to the [...]
MetroDaddy Speaks! (About his latest Kindle publication)
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, Masculinities, metrosexuality, MetrosexyTags: Freud, Male Impersonators, Mark Simpson, masculinities, Metrosexy
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/12/15/male-impersonators-now-available-as-a-kindle-ebook/ ‘I deployed ‘metrosexual’ as journalistic shorthand for the freighted theory of M.I. Reading M.I. you may decide that the shorthand said rather more than the longhand. If Male Impersonators was the theory of metrosexuality,Metrosexy, my recent collection of metro journalism, documents the way metrosexuality went on to conquer the culture over the next seventeen years – [...]
‘Suck My Dick, Sigmund…’
Posted: March 26, 2011 in Feminism, Freud, Identity, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: feminism Fuck Theory, Freud, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Women
Mr Fuck Theory doesn’t like Mr Freud very much. And I don’t like Mr Fuck Theory. But I want to put our emotional responses aside to try and explain why I disagree with Fuck Theory’s ‘critique’ of Freud’s ‘conceptual violence’ in relation to femininity and homosexuality. Here is Fuck Theory’s post: http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/4070969035/the-blind-spot-of-an-old-dream-of-symmetry-the ‘The Blind Spot [...]
Sex, Lies and Neuroscience: The Gaga Effect
Posted: March 24, 2011 in Identity, Lady Gaga, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: Freud, Homosexuality, lady Gaga, Mark Simpson, Michael Bailey, neuroscience, Sexuality
I found out that Gaga’s latest album and single were to be called ‘Born This Way’ towards the end of last year. My heart sank. I knew it was going to become, if not a popular gay anthem, at least a symbol of the worst kind of essentialist thinking around sexuality. Unfortunately my fears have [...]
