I posted the other day about re-reading Dworkin, and I was just thinking that I want to say more about that. As that post mentions, what I chose to re-read was a few snippets available online from Intercourse. (Yes, I realize that re-reading excerpts is not the same as re-reading the book itself. Yes, I did read the whole book, about a year ago. ( Read more... )

On a whim, I decided to go back today and read some Dworkin, just to see what it's like to read her now. I've read her as

1. An angry kinkster who thought, out of ignorance, that "feminists" of all kinds hated sexualities like mine; I hated Dworkin at this time, and found reading her actually hurtful and often teared up at it;
2. A self-identified ( Read more... )

A very interesting post on Alas (with the most squick inducing title imaginable), which begins beautiful and then turns... well, you'll see:

The beautiful:

The first time a woman opened her legs long enough that I could look for more than the few seconds it took to bend to her with lips and tongue, or to climb up blind into her and start moving, I ( Read more... )