W9 - Discussion
- Mat Wenzel
- Oct 28, 2018
- 1 min read
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Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood by James Baldwin http://challengingmalesupremacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Here-be-Dragons-James-Baldwin.pdf
The Gutted by Justin Chin
Her Body, Mine, and His by Dorothy Allison
Ode to the Blowjob by Sharon Olds https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blowjob-vulgar-slang-audio-only
Arabesque by Gary Fisher TW
My Vomit Fetish, Myself by Melissa Broder
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The article I decided to read was "her body mine and his". This was a very interesting piece to read. Reading the title, I figured this essay would revolve around a threesome with two women and one man. However, that was definitely not the case. The authour makes it clear that she is engaging in sexual encounters with only a women. For instance, she states, "my libia swells. I can feel each hair that curls around the harness she wears". This alerts the reader that the "his" the author is referring to is the dildo they're using. This particular phrase is very effective because it provides some sort of explanation for the title. This article relates to eroticism because the…
I read ''My Vomit Fetish, Myself'' by Melissa Broder. I think its very interesting how she describes acquiring this fetish. When she was 3 years old, she remembers being sick and vomiting. Her mother took care of her, cleaned her and nurtured her. She was amazed that her mother could do all of this; accept her in her most vulnerable and disgusting state. For Broder, this fetish is about complete acceptance of who she is. She mentions how it is all mostly in her head, because she doesn't think she could deal with actual vomit in real life. It is just the fantasy that excites her, and she describes several of her vomit fantasies in this chapter. I think it…
I decided to listen to the “Ode to the Blowjob” and I found it to be really interesting. I think about the audience and how it was a little awkward to have to listen to someone talk about something out of the norm. Olds seems to want to bring something taboo more out into the open. She also seems to focus a lot on the word “job’ and talks about how although it is a job you do not necessarily have to think of it like that. With both “blow” and “job” she really goes into discussion of each.