Posts Tagged: sex

Erica Jong explains why dictators don’t like sex #whosaidthat #hotquote
And now, a few words from Erica Jong: If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. Now go use that voice you own, kitten. Roar, don’t meow. Fine. Meow if you want to. But keep them claws sharp. mjanecolette TellMe@mjanecolette.com YES! MY LIFE NEEDS MORE LOVE LETTERS!

Erica Jong explains why dictators don’t like sex #whosaidthat #hotquote
And now, a few words from Erica Jong: If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. Now go use that voice you own, kitten. Roar, don’t meow. Fine. Meow if you want to. But keep them claws sharp. mjanecolette TellMe@mjanecolette.com YES! MY LIFE NEEDS MORE LOVE LETTERS!

Hemingway on what harms a writer
“Tell me first what are the things, the actual, concrete things that harm a writer?” … “Politics, women, drink, money, ambition. And the lack of politics, women, drink, money and ambition…” Ernest Hemingway ORDERS: None for this weekend. Go into

Hemingway on what harms a writer
“Tell me first what are the things, the actual, concrete things that harm a writer?” … “Politics, women, drink, money, ambition. And the lack of politics, women, drink, money and ambition…” Ernest Hemingway ORDERS: None for this weekend. Go into

Susan Sontag on sex and writing
“If only I could feel about sex as I do about writing! That I’m the vehicle, the medium, the instrument of some force beyond myself.” –Susan Sontag More on Sontag and sex, here, at BrainPickings: Susan Sontag on Sex. ORDERS: Writers,

Susan Sontag on sex and writing
“If only I could feel about sex as I do about writing! That I’m the vehicle, the medium, the instrument of some force beyond myself.” –Susan Sontag More on Sontag and sex, here, at BrainPickings: Susan Sontag on Sex. ORDERS: Writers,

Philip Larkin on wanking at ten past three
Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he’s taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, The drink gone dead, without showing how To meet tomorrow, and afterwards, And the usual pain, like dysentery. Someone else

Philip Larkin on wanking at ten past three
Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he’s taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, The drink gone dead, without showing how To meet tomorrow, and afterwards, And the usual pain, like dysentery. Someone else

Demeter Press seeking submissions for Mothers, Sex and Sexuality collection
Really excited to share this call for submissions from Demeter Press with you. Demeter Press is the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of mothering/ motherhood: an independent feminist press committed to publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work, fiction, poetry,

Demeter Press seeking submissions for Mothers, Sex and Sexuality collection
Really excited to share this call for submissions from Demeter Press with you. Demeter Press is the first book publisher focused specifically on the topic of mothering/ motherhood: an independent feminist press committed to publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work, fiction, poetry,

Hemingway on creativity (productivity?) and sex
“Eased off on the book…in May because Dr. said I worked too hard in April, and May fine month to fish and make love to Miss Mary. I have to ease off on makeing love when writing hard as the

Hemingway on creativity (productivity?) and sex
“Eased off on the book…in May because Dr. said I worked too hard in April, and May fine month to fish and make love to Miss Mary. I have to ease off on makeing love when writing hard as the

Alain de Botton on how sex will never be simple or nice
Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be. It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty,

Alain de Botton on how sex will never be simple or nice
Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be. It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty,

“Art is the sex of the imagination.” Who said that?
“Art is the sex of the imagination.” George Jean Nathan ORDERS: This weekend, you’re hunting for sex of the imagination: for art—music, pictures, photographs (not that kind—porn’s easy, go deeper), words. THE BOOK: Coming from Mischief, the erotica imprint of Harper

“Art is the sex of the imagination.” Who said that?
“Art is the sex of the imagination.” George Jean Nathan ORDERS: This weekend, you’re hunting for sex of the imagination: for art—music, pictures, photographs (not that kind—porn’s easy, go deeper), words. THE BOOK: Coming from Mischief, the erotica imprint of Harper

Karley Sciortino: Why we like having sex with artists
Because… “Being immortalized in an artwork is the ultimate love letter.” … “There’s just something sexy and fascinating about someone whose daily routine deals with the sublime, and who aims to create something out of this world. It’s like wanting

Karley Sciortino: Why we like having sex with artists
Because… “Being immortalized in an artwork is the ultimate love letter.” … “There’s just something sexy and fascinating about someone whose daily routine deals with the sublime, and who aims to create something out of this world. It’s like wanting