Aroused: A Collection of Erotic Writing

by Finley, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781560252825
• ISBN10: 1560252820
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-06
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

While posing for Playboy magazine, freelance Bill of Rights defender Karen Finley was told, while chocolate dripped down her nipples, that her smirk wasn't "Playboy sexy." When writing for nerve.com, the so-called erotic on line magazine, she was told she would need to replace the word "cock" with something something less objectionable? Having heard her friends complain of similar silliness Karen has invited them to write "whatever the hell you want" to reawaken this "exhausted topic." Aroused is an anthology of erotica, sexual culture, passionate texts, sensual encounters and essays on gender bending, neurotic erotic lust, school girl antics, coming of age, and first times, ranging from personal gratification to denying gratification, control, submission, possession, and jealousy, with race, age, and economics thrown in for a more heightened emotional response. Aroused defies our now familiar compartmentalization of sexuality and the erotic hit list of specialties: the best of lesbian erotica, the best of the new erotica, the best of old man and the sea erotica, famous person tattoo erotica, eclectic, esoteric erotica...

Author Biography

Karen Finley is the author of five other books including A Different Kind of Intimacy, also available from Thunder's Mouth Press. Her infamous performances brought her to the Supreme Court in Finley vs. NEA, the Waterloo of the Culture Wars Richard Hell was a founding member of Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids. His albums include Blank Generation. He's the author of the novel Go Now, and Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell

Table of Contents

Preface: Aroused	xiii
Karen Finley
Introduction: Writing Sex	xix
Richard Hell
Little Trophy	1	(8)
Jerry Stahl
The Mewling (abridged)	9	(7)
Kathe Izzo
The Boy is Peeling	16	(5)
Alistair McCartney
First Love	21	(11)
Hubert Selby. Jr.
Night On Twelfth Street	32	(8)
Marilyn Jaye Lewis
The Youth Hostel	40	(31)
Wallace Shawn
12 Assholes and a Dirty Foot	71	(8)
John Waters
Folksong 1999	79	(12)
Mary Gaitskill
Analgesic	91	(5)
Lydia Lunch
Cumming to the Conclusion: An Erotic Trilogy from Hell	96	(17)
An Act of Goddess
It's a Tough Act to Swallow
Beyond Masturbation
Richard Lewis
Miss Anne	113	(10)
Lori E. Seid
A Wedding Day	123	(7)
Tim Miller
He Delivers! A Straight Woman Looks at Gay Male Porn	130	(8)
Karen Finley
Songs of Experience	138	(7)
Tom Healy
Slither	145	(5)
Mark Russell
Cybersex	150	(8)
Leslie Baze
F	158	(5)
Jessica Hagedorn
Why Did He Cut Off That Man's Leg? The Peculiar Practice of Dr. John Ronald Brown	163	(23)
Paul Ciotti
The Nibbler	186	(8)
Adam Levy
So You Like Dante; Poem; It's All True; from Go Now; Across the Years	194	(7)
Richard Hell
Penis Passion; Gimme Some Dick	201	(10)
bell hooks
Scene IV from the play Carson McCullers	211	(6)
Sarah Schulman
3 Specimens	217	(28)
Ishmael Houston-Jones
The Everlasting Secret First Family of Fuck, An Expose	245	(13)
Vaginal Davis
Picturing Porn: A Photographic Deconstruction	258	(13)
Carlo McCormick
Once Upon a Time	271	(7)
Linda M Montano
A Month of Sundays	278	(10)
Tessa Hughes-Freeland
Fuck Art	288	(11)
Jack Bump
The Bosom Ballet	299	(5)
Annie Sprinkle
Lake Cuntry Drag King Fling	304	(8)
Diane Torr
Eargasm	312	(4)
Saint Reverend Jen
Answer Me	316	(4)
Annie Sprinkle
Physical Love	320	(7)
Lizbeth Hasse
Of Breasts and Transhistories; Bald, Importent, and Depressed	327	(13)
Jonathan Ames
Contributors	340	(3)
Acknowledgments	343