Posts Tagged as ‘sexual politics’

November 7, 2009

The Lies about the Lies, part 2

First part by Xzenu Cronström Beskow can be found here.
To recap, the ten lies that Melissa Farley claims to uncover, are:

1. Pain is pleasure; humiliation is enjoyable; bondage is liberation.
2. Sadomasochism is love and trust, not domination and annihilation.
3. Sadomasochism is not racist and anti Semitic even though we “act” like slave owners and enslaved [...]

November 3, 2009

The Lies about the Ten Lies, by Guestblogger

Ve: When I first read Melissa Farleys piece ‘Ten Lies about Sadomasochism’ I wanted to respond.  I did not know how, but kept the text in the back of my head.
Then, time went by, and I did not give a proper response. Instead, a couple of weeks ago I saw the text was mentioned [...]

September 15, 2009

No Go Homophobia

A nice afternoon tea in a a clean suburb of London. I am actuallly outside zone 6 for real. Does not happen very often. Anyway, I’m meeting with relatives and we are pretty much done with the sandwiches as well as the cakes and the tea. The discussions has been many and I find myself [...]

June 4, 2009

George Tiller,August 8, 1941 – May 31, 2009, RIP

Words cannot express how I feel after a couple of days in Prague. Not because it was beautiful and the food was amazing. But because of The Guardian I pick up on the airport back home to a schorching hot London. As always, the vacation ended up us being in a world of it’s own, [...]

February 24, 2009

Kerfuffle

I know. I am good at finding loads of interesting things to read, rather than writing my own post. What is worse is that I choose to post them here,  instead of writing properly. And my excuse? I have none! The guide to shopping seem to come to nothing for the moment.
Anyhow. There is the [...]

February 19, 2009

On racism & fastfood-pr0n

Apparently, there is even shaky things going on in the pr0nbuisness. If I hear one more person saying the words ‘credit’ and ‘crunch’ in the same sentence I will probably tie a noose and give it to that person. But apparently, even the buisness of picturing people making whopiee is feeling it and trying to [...]