1. Apologize to those who feel I’ve dropped off the face of the planet for the past couple of weeks. The recent film symposium, festival and leather weekend were reason enough, but add the ongoing Toronto apartment search (grumble landlords grumble vacancy rates grrrr stupid classifieds argghh) and a crushing workload (any translators out there? … More the sex geek’s to-do list
I promise I’ll write something more interesting in a little bit. For now, just a quick update: the queer film extravaganza known as Image+Nation begins tonight. Wheeeee! For the next week, when I post, you can fully expect it to be about queer films. Particularly the documentaries, since there seems to be a really full … More queer film madness (and a bit of tv)
It’s been a while since I last wrote an instalment in my ongoing endeavour to respond to each of the articles in the book Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures, by Drs. Peggy Kleinplatz and Charles Moser. But I haven’t forgotten about it… there’s just been so much else to write about! Today’s response is to the article … More pop culture kink: questions and critiques
I used to think I wasn’t a fetishist. But sometimes, when my enjoyment of a mundane object is redolent with such an extreme amount of sensuality that it verges on the lascivious, I am forced to admit that perhaps I am. Fetishism used to confuse me. I’m all kinds of kinky, sure; but to get turned on … More the pleasure of leather, the love of gloves
Last night, I ran a meeting of the Queer Ladies’ Reading Society, my dyke book club. We were discussing Lydia Kwa’s novel This Place Called Absence. (Spoiler alert! Though it won’t really kill your enjoyment of the book if you choose to read it, I only give away a few minor details. Really, this post is … More this place called queer absence
(A quick summary for ya: Boston rocks and so do brains and bricks, though preferably not in direct contact with one another; international poly discussion rocks too; jealousy’s not my thing; bookstores are powerful gravitational forces; there’s cool stuff to read out there about Japanese sexuality; if you want the juice on The Cliks’ lead singer, who happens to be a trans guy, check … More bye-bye, boston
