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A Note on Conceptualism

Apr 28, 2015

A Note on Conceptualism

A novel with no intimation of a story whatsoever[….] Plotless. Characterless. Yet seducing the reader into turning the pages nonetheless. […] Actionless[.] Which is to say, with no sequence of events. Which is to say, with no indicated passage of time. […] A novel with no setting. […] Ergo meaning finally without descriptions. […] A novel with no overriding central motivations[….] With no social themes, i.e., no picture of society. […] A novel entirely without symbols. (Marks

Education of the Senses

Mar 9, 2015

Education of the Senses

“Our frantic heaves and throbs were received and returned with equally voluptuous and pleasure-conferring shoves and wriggles, which gradually increased in force and intensity, until the final crisis again overtook us, and we all melted away in the glorious excess of rapture.” (The Adventures of a School-Boy 162) The anonymously-written narrative The Adventures of a School-Boy or, the Freaks of Youthful Passion (1866) details the education of a group of four young companions

Desire, Anxiety, and Scat

Oct 14, 2014

Desire, Anxiety, and Scat

Shit stinks. But it don’t taste like anything. That nigger shit a horse turd too! I bit. It mashed out against the corner of my mouth. I chewed. It was like sour starch paste. And grainy. . . . I took my face away and wiped my chin. My palm streaked brown. I spit out about half of what I still had in my mouth into my hand. I looked at it a few seconds. Then, kneeling back on the floor, I put it inside my open fly and rubbed it around on my cock and nuts. It felt good; but it

Notes on Genitoanal Obscenity

Sep 16, 2014

Notes on Genitoanal Obscenity

“Anal obscenity, pushed to such a point that the most representative apes even got rid of their tails (which hide the anus from other animals), completely disappeared from the fact of human evolution. The human anus secluded itself deep within flesh, in the crack of the buttocks, and it forms now a projection only in squatting and excretion. All the potential for blossoming, all the possibilities for the liberation of energy, now under normal circumstances found the way open

Peter Berlin's Strange, Dark Fantasies

Aug 26, 2014

Peter Berlin's Strange, Dark Fantasies

Peter Berlin’s That Boy (1974) emerged within the golden age of gay male pornographic films and in the aftermath of the development of the gay liberation movement; however, the film strikingly imagines an ecstatic experience of sexual activity or becoming that disavows gay identity, and perhaps identity itself. In That Boy, Berlin (who wrote, directed, produced, starred in, and renamed himself for the film) presents himself as a chimerical character named Helmut who is create

Aug 15, 2014

2014 Overview: Gay Male Pornography

Allow me to present a particular series of images. The fourth scene of Michael Lucas’s Urine Fist Fest begins with Adam Killian and Christian Herzog passionately kissing and heavily drooling on each other while lying in bed. The couple’s exaggerated kissing lasts for several minutes as they eagerly lap at each other’s face and body with their tongues humorously hanging from their mouths. Killian quickly strips Herzog of his clothes, pushes his knees to his shoulders, and disp

Jul 19, 2014

Watershed

A watershed is a geographic feature that divides water into different systems. A watershed also represents the tributaries and gathering ground for a central body of water. As graduate students at the University of Nebraska, we acknowledge the significance of watersheds to the agricultural industry as well as the ecology of the Great Plains region. However and perhaps most popularly, a watershed is known to be a crucial event or occurrence recognized as causing a turning poin