Orgasms and Politics
February 13. The day before Valentine’s Day, the day we celebrate and honour erotic love in the USA. Which, of course, makes people like me laugh out loud. Americans celebrating erotic love? The same group of people who keep voting en masse to ban pleasure in all of its forms? I could spend the rest of this post linking to every news item and blog entry I can find that documents how much we hate our bodies in this culture. Our fat selves. Our messy selves. Our sexual selves. Our reproducing selves. Our natural selves. Our self-pleasuring selves. Ourselves.
But I don’t want to do that. Not today. Today, I’m willing to risk opprobrium to celebrate erotic love. (And if you want to see opprobrium, try posting something called “Erotica
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point taken, Amen.
Submitted by Tara Parks on 14 February 2006 - 9:24pm.
very moving piece...nice rise and fall like...well, fucking.
what is Big Orange?
I LOVE THE MOTTO!
[quote] "If I can't come, I don't want to be part of your revolution."[/quote]
This is so awesome. I have to print this one out. Putting on some t-shirts.
My day is going to be a bit less carnal and more introspective. It's the first time I spend it away from Mr. Man. I didn't book the tickets, but things ... they happen for a reason.