Opening Up on Naked City - Part 2: Solo Polyamorists
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Here’s the second of my four posts about Opening Up on the new Village Voice sex blog Naked City edited by Audacia Ray. It’s called “Solo Polyamorists.”
Here’s the second of my four posts about Opening Up on the new Village Voice sex blog Naked City edited by Audacia Ray. It’s called “Solo Polyamorists.”
I’m doing a series of blog posts all month about the research for Opening Up at The Village Voice’s new sexuality blog, Naked City, which is edited by the fabulous Audacia Ray. Here is the first one: “Open Up: Women With Two Husbands.” Enjoy!
While I was in Chicago, I met up with SerpentineLibertine, who interviewed me for Red Light District Chicago, an internet and public access TV show about sex work. This is part one of the interview! If the player doesn’t work above, go to http://blip.tv/file/868381
Although the book isn’t out for several days, David Hall got his hands on a galley of Opening Up and did a brief review at the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality.
I am quoted in Dan Eldridge’s piece, “Marriage Without Monogamy,” which is part of a series he did for Tango Magazine. Check it out as well as the other pieces in his series. In fact, Tango has lots of pieces on non-monogamy, so look at the links at the bottom of his column for those.
My latest Village Voice column, “The New Wave of Trans Cinema,” features Morty Diamond’s latest film, Trans-Entities: The Nasty Love of Papi and Wil about a kinky, genderqueer, polyamorous couple. They openly discuss their poly relationship and share a scene with one of their lovers. It’s a wonderful film and an intimate look at the lives of two fascinating people.
Here’s my take on the Eliot Spitzer “scandal,” for the Village Voice as seen through the eyes of someone who has open relationships on my mind clearly: In (Partial) Defense of Eliot Spitzer.
Just in case you’re not totally sick of all the coverage (a lot of which is redundant) of the Spitzer “scandal,” here’s a fabulous piece called “Against Sexual Scandal” by Lauren Berlant. She calls the mainstream media to task for its neverending sex-negativity. A little snip: “I felt sorry for sex during the Larry Craig brouhaha last summer. What if he liked being married and procreating and giving anonymous head? What if that was his sexual preference? What if he really was not gay, as he claims, but had sexual desires that seemed incoherent? Some of the response to Craig was like the response to moralists like Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard and now Spitzer–moralists deserve to suffer the same force of negative judgment they wielded on others. Shame on us? Shame on you, ha ha! But lots of the response was sheer homophobia. And all of it was sheer erotophobia.” I love her line about having sexual desires that seemed incoherent. Because in reality, a lot of us are way beyond gay/straight, kinky/vanilla, etc. and Berlant calls for us to embrace that rather than continue the cycle of shame.