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A Framework for Low-Risk Promiscuity
Published in Eric Rofes, Dry Bones Breathe, 2015
When we got to my home and sat on the couch, he immediately jumped on top, reached under my tank top, and started feeling me up. As I felt his hand slide down to my butt and squeeze my cheek, I realized I’d better say something soon if I hoped to quell his determination to fuck me but avoid alienating him from other possibilities. After explaining to him that I was not up for getting fucked, he whipped out his dick to show me that, while it was quite thick, it was not very long. I countered that my disinterest in getting porked had nothing to do with his great-looking cock; I simply didn’t enjoy the act and this was nonnegotiable. He immediately climbed off me and peeled down his sweatpants. “If you won’t let me fuck you, then we’ll have to do my next favorite thing,” he insisted as he exposed his butt, beautifully framed by his jockstrap. I thought he might be inviting me to penetrate him. Instead he started maneuvering his crack toward my face.
The Ideology of Transference: Laplanche and Affect Theory
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2018
However, despite the exciting world “perverse sexuality” seems to conjure, I would suggest that without the use of Affect, it ultimately reproduces a superficial antinomy to “transference” phenomena. That is, although there is a language of scandal implied in the attraction of an articulate, married, and self-conscious analysand to a “greasy” “stranger” with a “stained jockstrap,” this sensational framing belies what is, underneath it, a very familiar and conventional understanding of sexuality and transformation. That is, in desiring someone at odds with his self-understanding, Adam’s ego takes a stunning hit. In this sense, “shattering” names the transcendence of one’s “ego” boundaries—an encounter that can be exalting or traumatic, fleeting, dizzying, shocking, dense. But whereas the essay uses the distinction between language and the body to argue for how this soma-centric moment enables the psyche’s privileged access to unsymbolized mental content, the only psychic event it is theoretically equipped to explain is the impact of an unexpected object on a patient’s self-“awareness.” After all, what is the status of the “abject stranger” here other than a backdrop for Adam’s projections and needs? And what is the status of “sexuality” here other than the non-linguistic medium through which the ego confronts, and transcends, its own familiar bounds?
“Almost Looks Illegal”: Family Dick’s Daddy’s Little Boy Gay Pornography Series and Its Too-Young Look
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
Additional childlike markers throughout the series include reference to school work, in “After School Snack,” which as Bridges, Wosnitzer, Scharrer, Sun, and Liberman (2010) note in the context of “childlike pornography” featuring young women, carries the suggestion that “the actresses are young students, still under parental monitoring” (p. 1078). Another example is in “Sleepy Movie Night,” when the father initiates intercourse with his son who was curled up asleep in his lap, a familiar image of childlike innocence. In this second chapter, the son is dressed in an outfit connoting both childhood and potential adult homoeroticism: a drop-seat union suit, a popular item of children’s sleepwear, the adult version of which has also been associated with homoerotic advertisements in the first third of the twentieth century, the illustrations of J. C. Leyendecker especially (see Martin, 1996). The result is an uneasy courtship between childhood symbols and adult eroticism. The drop-seat garment has the advantage of unbuttoning at the posterior, allowing the father easy access to the son’s anus even without disrupting the boy’s sleep, a feature of the garment that connotes erotic rear “male exposure and accessibility” (Martin, 1996, p. 458) in this instance, but could connote access to a toddler’s diaper in another context. In its usage here, it functions as a youthful refashioning of the “jockstrap,” a garment that also allows for anal penetration while still being worn, yet which also connotes an adult more decidedly. Choice of clothing is a key youthful signifier in the series, dinosaur pajamas (1) and a fox costume (5) being other examples.