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A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths

A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings” (Shakespeare, Macbeth) To consider and be comfortable with authentic displays of variant genders and sexualities seems such a basic, healthy, productive, powerful, potentially opening and enlivening premise; yet,...
How Pink is Your Melon, Joy?  The Erotic, Sexual Language of Gertrude Stein

How Pink is Your Melon, Joy? The Erotic, Sexual Language of Gertrude Stein

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

Ulla E. Dydo, Stein scholar and editor of the selected works collection titled A Stein Reader: Gertrude Stein, asserts that Pink Melon Joy is “the most lighthearted, humorous, and erotic work” of the early World War I time; further, she writes that Pink Melon Joy...
Pornography, Taboos, Desire & Language in Kathy Acker’s Blood & Guts in High School

Pornography, Taboos, Desire & Language in Kathy Acker’s Blood & Guts in High School

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

Sexed Language and Verbal Play Kathy Acker is in the company of many erotic literary writers with the exploring of the often taboo desires and turn-ons that occur with language and verbal play. I think that because of the base sexedness and pornographic/erotic charge...
Roles, BDSM & Sex in Gertrude Stein’s Erotic Writing

Roles, BDSM & Sex in Gertrude Stein’s Erotic Writing

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

A fluidity of roles and desires surfaces in all of Gertrude Stein’s erotic literature. In my book The Switch: Freedoms in Sexuality, Desire, Gender & Identity I establish a new and exciting reading of Stein’s work. I engage in this process by embracing the...
Safe Sex Spaces are as Important and Needed as a Yankees Game

Safe Sex Spaces are as Important and Needed as a Yankees Game

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Roles, Sex, Sexuality

While it may seem an odd comparison, the reality is that in both places folks can come together for convivial community through belonging, regardless of their political or social affiliation.  If we consider public spaces as locations of community connection and...
How to Increase Her Pleasure & Have Her See Stars

How to Increase Her Pleasure & Have Her See Stars

by Lesley Graydon | Desire, Sex, Sexuality

You may be a really great lover and you might have a rock’n sex life.  You might be committed to co-creating this with your present or future partner.  Wherever you are at, what benefits our intimate unions is us 1) choosing to be committed to...

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