The Death Of Childhood

http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2012/02/sexy-boy-and-treasure-island-media.html Law and Sexuality Blog has an interesting article about a M/m porn company, TIM which has been marketing its wares with images of young boys. You can read the whole article here. In it Chris, an academic, writes: ‘there is the less radical, but perhaps no less controversial idea that children can be sexual beings. [...]

Space

The Marvellous Slope Show is back! Season Two of the story of superficial, homophobic lesbians Desiree and Ingrid kicks off with a poignant (but hilarious) episode called ‘Taking Space’ http://theslopeshow.com/2012/02/14/season-2-episode-1-taking-space/ This reminds me of the song: Space, by Pulp. The lyrics of the album version begin: You said you wanted some space … Well is [...]

Oh, Cynthia!

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/30/Cynthia_Nixon_Being_Bisexual_Is_Not_a_Choice/ Cynthia Nixon, who I last week defended for stating her sexuality is her ‘choice’, has gone back on her word. After a huge amount of hostility and pressure from gay activists and gay media outlets I might add. Her revised statement reads as follows:   “My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my [...]

Unnatural Selection?

A recent New York Times interview with Sex In The City star Cynthia Nixon, has caused a bit of a furore amongst mainly American gays. I first read about the story in Queerty, which is itself a VERY gay website. But I appreciated them running  it, and quoting Nixon at length and opening up the discussion to the [...]

Broken Record

Someone called me a ‘broken record’ today. And I think they were right. But I will keep repeating myself over and over, and singing this discordant song, and breaking myself over the turntable of your prejudice and willful ignorance, until I get my message across. Or give up. Or die. Whichever happens first. So here [...]

Single Ladies

This is the list of entrance prices/membership fees for a ‘hedonists” ‘sex club’ in Toronto, Canada. It is a very interesting example of the different values of men and women in the ‘sex’ marketplace. Even in the ‘recreational’ sex marketplace. Why do you think it costs only $5 basic entry for a single woman and [...]

‘Suck My Dick, Sigmund…’

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

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 [...]

Michel Foucault on Childhood

Q: Assuming that we aren’t doomed, chained to sex as our destiny: and from childhood as they say… MF: Exactly; look at what’s happening in the case of children. They say the life of children is their sexual life. From the bottle to puberty, that’s all they talk about. Behind the desire to learn to [...]

Pathologise This.

“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ” — Michel Foucault   ‘Gay people are not sexually interested in straights…The subtext to a lot of homophobic thinking is the idea that gays will try to [...]