literature

Sontag: Porn, Sex, and loss of Self

“What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one’s existence as a full human being…

“Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that…

These quotes strike a chord very deeply with me: “I was part of the TV generation. I was…

“All the referentials combine their discourses in a circular Möbian compulsion. Not so long ago, sex and work…

Can sex give relief from existential angst? Sartre thinks so, albeit only briefly: “After all, you have to…

“It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the…

“Sex is what you can get. For some people, it’s the most important thing they can get without…

“If I bugger… , as I bend farther forward I get a profile view of his face crushed…