Kickstarter Play with an Asexual Character

[mirielenfield]

I found this while poking around Google's blog search. I've never heard of the playwright before, I have no idea if the play is any good, and I've got no clue if the treatment of asexuality will be any good. Nonetheless, I thought many of you would be interested in taking a look at this. Presented for your perusal:

http://www.kickstarter.com/

Comments

[inamac]

My thought too. Given the sometimes intimate nature of tattooing I would have thought that it is one of the most fitting vocations for an asexual.

[bart_calendar]

My thought it that he's coming from a Freudian and Lacanian interpretation which links tattooing to both penetration and the territorial "marking" that can both be a strong driving force in many sexuals sexuality

[cheriola]

Er... but how can it satisfy an urge to mark a territory when the artist neither gets to choose the design, nor gets to sign their work? This isn't like grafitti-tagging buildings; nobody will be able to tell who the artist was just by looking at the person wearing the tattoo. And that person most likely thinks of the artist like a craftsperson, hired to give the customer's creative vision form, not to use the customer as a canvas for their own artistic ideas.

And the penetration thing... Seriously? I could see it satisfying a sadistic/dominant urge to cause pain and have others under one's control for a while, but can the minute depth of the needle really do anything for a penetrative urge? (If there really is such a thing. I'm a woman, so I wouldn't know.)

[bart_calendar]

Well, that's why it's a weird circular argument (and why tattoos are discussed in Queer Theory quite a bit - or were back in 1989 when I was in college.)

Penetrative urge has been debated by psychologists over and over again and everyone has their own opinion. It's certainly true that little boys like to hammer nails through things, but some little girls do too...

The territorial marking thing makes perfect sense to me. Whether you designed it or not you get to put something permanent on someone that will be with them the rest of their lives. That's about as territorial as you can get - and some tattoo artists do sign their work and many have identifiable styles so that any other artist who sees the work will know it was them. So, I'm going to agree with Lacan and Freud on territorial marking and say "I don't know about the penetration thing, but can see where the argument is coming from."

Anyway, I just meant to say I can sort of see what these playwrites are going for and I do like their play on words with bare back and kink