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When mechanics meet dialectics, it’s hard to tell who or what is screwed and who or what is screwing. Our vulgarity is in keeping with our source text. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a an you don’t want to … Continue reading →

Casual? Inconsequential? Three bold explorations sexual encounters are worth revisiting. M i d i O n o d e r a TEN CENTS A DANCE (PARALLAX) (1985) “Also, the scenes as they are cut together form a progression. The first … Continue reading →

Kate Millet “Beyond Politics? Children and Sexuality” in Pleasure and Danger edited by Carole Vance [1982] If we did not have the great power of autoeroticism, we would never come to any conclusions, form any tastes, or find many sources … Continue reading →

Ursula Franklin on civic engagement. She likened her approach to activism to what she called the earthworm theory of civic engagement: “From earthworms we learn that before anything grows there has to be prepared soil. When we talk about the … Continue reading →

James Lipton in the expanded second edition of An Exaltation of Larks or, The Venereal Game documents the following A SUBTLETY OF SERGEANTS This term confused me greatly: of the sergeants I have know, very few were subtle, and I … Continue reading →

E.B. White “Here is New York” The subtlest change in New York is something people don’t speak much about but that is in everyone’s mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight … Continue reading →

Often fascinating in sci-fi is the description of technology. In this case a nutrient dispenser: Tears-crying was for face-liquid. It was useless, or rather useful only as emotional expression. It was a waste product … (and she had been right … Continue reading →

Queer as Folk – season finale – beyond boy finds boy – it’s about a man expressing his principles, almost losing his principles and being aided in finding integrity again. What? It’s not about marriage? “We don’t need rings or … Continue reading →

Like constructing a sundae M. Thomas’ book is as full of good things as a plum pudding, but in this particular case his observations are not arguments, they are impertinences. M. Thomas who, like nearly all Frenchmen, is an admirable … Continue reading →