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Internet Porn Capitalism Men?

December 3, 2018 by William Eaton

Aspects of our social and sexual lives discussed in dialogue with poetry by a young woman who in adolescence became addicted to Internet porn. Among the questions: What if, as Freud proposed, civilization does indeed involve the repression of our emotional lives? And what if our selves have become what we have to sell? Also noted: a young heterosexual male would not be allowed to write about his addiction to Internet porn unless he were featuring himself as an example of “toxic masculinity.”

Categories: William Eaton • Tags: Internet, isolation, men, poetry, pornography, relationships, sex, sexuality, social media, women, writing

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Dickinson’s Dying Tiger

August 7, 2018 by William Eaton

A discussion of Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Dying Tiger” which includes sensuality, mortality and even, perhaps, vulgarity, but no sex, no consummation and no communion either. The poem’s two bodies, and two selves, never even touch, and it is this distance that kills the male and condemns the female to waste away (though she lives on with her poetry and regrets).

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: desire, Emily Dickinson, Freud, incest, men, parents, poetry, sex, women

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Dickinson — Sex, Spanish, Stew

February 11, 2016 by William Eaton

Emily, in not so foreign tongues   The first law of American literature: Somewhere, somehow, in God only knows what language, you are always going to come across one more, intriguing—if not indeed great—Emily Dickinson poem. A poem that you have previously overlooked, or not even heard of. And yet, there it is, ready to reward your attention. A rider: The poem might be about sex. Not sex like Henry Miller with his beloved Germaine du Café de l’Éléphant, soaping […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Barcelona, dogs, Emily Dickinson, fairy tales, Henry Miller, poetry, sex, Spanish

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Sex and Death

January 18, 2016 by fritztucker

While reading Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, I came across a most thought-provoking passage on Bollywood, which applies to Hollywood as well. On pg. 348, Mehta writes (emphasis mine): Gangsters and whores all over the world have always been fascinated by the movies and vice versa; the movies are fundamentally transgressive. They are our eye into the forbidden. Most people will never see a human being murder another human being, except on screen. Most people will never see […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: art, books, crime, criminals, death, film, History, literature, love, sex, sexuality

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RealDolls and Other Humanoids

July 21, 2015 by Walter Cummins

By Walter Cummins   Second in a series   Last time I wrote of the relationship of various prosthetic devices to the people who wear them. This time my topic is humanoids. At first glance, they may seem to be very different subjects. Prosthetics often and humanoids always, however, do share roots in robotics and artificial intelligence. But, more significantly, they question the relationships of human beings to devices that possess human characteristics. Recently, humanoids have become a particular subject […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: literature, movies, robots, sex, technology

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About sex, again . . .

July 18, 2015 by William Eaton

One meets the most interesting people in the obituary pages of The New York Times. On Monday, July 13, 2015, for those of us who didn’t know him before by reputation or his 20 books, we learned about Charles Winick, a professor of anthropology and sociology. He taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is known for his warnings about the blurring of lines between the sexes in The New People: Desexualization in American […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: Charles Winick, girls, Lena Dunham, Manohla Dargis, Mario Vargas Llosa, sex, sexuality

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Sex, Sex, Celibacy, Diversity

July 9, 2015 by William Eaton

One Believe it or not, sex is a very important part of a relationship for many women, despite what we may say or what nonverbal messages we may send. From a female standpoint, I enjoy the intimacy. I enjoy knowing that I have that kind of power over another, that I can bring them to their knees, move them to lose control so completely in spite of stretch marks and saggy boobs. This becomes more important to me as I […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, diversity, Freud, homosexuality, LGBT, masturbation, sex, Supreme Court

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Almost Pure Pleasures

May 13, 2015 by William Eaton

At the end of a nature-preserve cove, I saw in the water some dark, complex something. Two box-like shapes, attached to one another. An abandoned part of a car engine? Approaching a little closer, I saw that it was two midsized, black-backed turtles, one clamped on the back of the other. They were rolling in the shallow water, and a stubby leg of the one on the bottom at times waved helplessly, and the one on top seemed at times […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: bicycling, Dr. Zhivago, inequality, money, nature, sex, turtles

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The Cheevers and the Baldwins

January 18, 2015 by William Eaton

[email_link] Found at the Y, in a New York Times Magazine piece about Mary Cheever: According to him [the fiction writer John Cheever], their issues [marital conflicts] are myriad: He wants to have sex all the time, for example, and she wants to have sex almost none of the time. He acknowledges, in fairness to Mary, that he is quite often impotent—ostensibly because he has a ferocious appetite for alcohol and perhaps because he finds himself lusting steadily, irrepressibly, after men. Here, in […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Bette Davis, Freud, Hemingway, James Baldwin, John Cheever, New York Times, reading, sex

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