Home » blogs » Lorraine's blog

Orgasms and Politics

backhands.jpg
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


http://culturekitchen.com/lorraine/blog/orgasms_and_politics
Mouse over the text to select it, then press Ctrl-C to copy it.
Your rating: None
Lorraine's picture
Submitted by Lorraine on 13 February 2006 - 2:06pm.
»


Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
blog comments powered by Disqus ">
liza's picture

I LOVE THE MOTTO!

Submitted by liza on 14 February 2006 - 1:49am.

[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.


»
blog comments powered by Disqus ">
Tara Parks's picture

point taken, Amen.

Submitted by Tara Parks on 14 February 2006 - 8:24pm.

very moving piece...nice rise and fall like...well, fucking.

what is Big Orange?


»

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

  • Links to specified hosts will have a rel="nofollow" added to them.

  • Easily link to terms in various wikis. For help, see <a href="/interwiki/4">interwiki</a>.
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Use <!--pagebreak--> to create page breaks.
  • Textual smileys will be replaced with graphical ones.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • E-Mail addresses are hidden with reCAPTCHA Mailhide.

More information about formatting options

Captcha
This question is used to make sure you are a human visitor and to prevent spam submissions.
Home » blogs » Lorraine's blog

User login

The Publisher
Liza Sabater

Daily servings of political dissent
culturekitchen

Grassroots News and
Activism for New Yorkers
Daily Gotham

Feminist Bloggers
Network
BlogSheroes

A new kind of vouyerism
Voogling

Art + Code + Philosophy
Potatoland.blog

Got any dirt, tips, leads or money for us? Then drop us a line or two at editors [at] culturekitchen [dot] com or use our general contact form to reach everybody in the editorial team ASAP.


Nibble daily on our brainy goodness with our daily syndication digest. You'll receive an email with a list and links to the previous day's posts.



Powered by FeedBlitz

Upcoming events

  • No upcoming events available
Add to iCalendar
more

QUOTES

Its time for the IRS to start revoking religious tax exempt privileges. If religious entities and leaders are going to continue to meddle ass-deep in politics, then its time for them to start paying for the government they so vociferously peddle.

Especially since they've thrown off all semblance of separation from government and are now actively working with elected representatives to pass an anti-gay marriage Constitutional Amendment...


— Carla, semi-anonymous multi-blogger
Preemptive Karma: Its time for evangelical churches to start paying taxes


Poll