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FREE REMITTANCE GIRL E-BOOKS

March 20, 2020 4:03 pm ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ MM

In a small effort to give something back to the world in this time of crisis and
fear, I thought I’d post my books online, for free, as an escape from the
constant worries that we are all facing. These are offered in PDF format. I will
try, when I get some time, to also … Continue Reading


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REALISM VS REALITY: THE FORESHORTENING OF MEANING.

December 2, 2015 5:01 am ⋅ 5 Comments ⋅ MM

There’s an interesting article in the Guardian by Tom Sutcliffe on Gaspar Noé’s
most recent film ‘Love’. It brings up the interesting question of whether
fiction has the capacity to say more to us than reality and, if so, why? Many
women prefer erotica over porn, and they are often painted as prudes. Of course,
… Continue Reading


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THE READER / WRITER CONSPIRACY & THE HACKNEYED ELLIPSIS OF THE REAL

October 28, 2015 4:21 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅ MM

How might fictional prose be framed in terms of Lacan’s Three Orders? Lacan
described the human psyche as operating on three different ‘orders’ or
registers: the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic. As speaking beings, we live
in all three orders simultaneously, but not always consciously. They are
experiential modes –  ways of experiencing reality … Continue Reading


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FROM SIN TO SUPERFICIALITY: EROTIC NARRATIVES

October 25, 2015 6:49 am ⋅ 4 Comments ⋅ MM

Erotic fiction is often narrated in first person, or third person proximate,
attempting to give the reader an experience of the story’s eroticism from inside
the mind and the body of the narrator. In this way, it has the capacity to do
what image-based pornography (which almost always situates the viewer as voyeur)
cannot do; … Continue Reading


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THE SAFETY OF DESIRE

October 8, 2015 7:07 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ MM

“desire is a defense, a defense against going beyond a limit in jouissance”
Jacques Lacan, Ecrits For Lacan, desire and fantasy are the life- and
self-preserving strategies we use to keep us from slipping into a mindless and
self-destructive pursuit of jouissance. Desires and the fantasies we construct
around them are firmly rooted in language. … Continue Reading


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WHAT IS NOT SHOWN – PART 2

August 12, 2015 5:45 pm ⋅ 3 Comments ⋅ MM

If you haven’t read part 1 of this post, it might be helpful to do that before
continuing to this one, since I set up arguments in the first that I extrapolate
on here. What Zizek implies in Interrogating the Real is that we, as subjects
acting within our cultural paradigms, have a very strong … Continue Reading


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WHAT IS NOT SHOWN

August 12, 2015 4:25 pm ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅ MM

In her book, Resisting Nudities: A Study in the Aesthetics of
Eroticism, Florence Dee Boodakian points out that when it comes to cultural
restrictions on nudity, apparent modesties quite often tend to draw attention to
what is being ‘hidden'(13). The thong bikini is a case in point: where tiny
pieces of cloth actually serve to call attention … Continue Reading


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SUSAN SONTAG’S ESSAY ON THE PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION

July 21, 2015 9:06 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅ MM

Here is The-Pornographic-Imagination-by-Susan-Sontag From her collection of
essays in Styles of Radical Wills. There is also a lovely youtube video of a
lecture where she talks about the pornographic comedic interchange.


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“I’M NOT FUCKING, I’M TALKING TO YOU”, OR I COULD BE FUCKING YOU.

July 7, 2015 10:19 am ⋅ 4 Comments ⋅ MM

In Lacan’s Seminar on The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, in his
attempt to explain how sublimation of desire works and how closely it is tied to
language, he says: Sublimation is nonetheless satisfaction of the drive, without
repression. In other words —for the moment, I am not fucking, I am talking to
you. Well! I … Continue Reading


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PORN SURVEY – RESULTS & THOUGHTS

July 5, 2015 4:47 am ⋅ 7 Comments ⋅ MM

Firstly, I would like to thank all of you who took the time to participate in my
very quick, informal porn survey. And an even bigger thank you to those who
commented, elaborated, or offered their thoughts when none of the options fit
the way in which you use porn. (Just a note, if you … Continue Reading


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