Comments on: Once, Before Sex Was Post-Anything http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/ Sex & the internet, by Melissa Gira Grant Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Decklin Foster http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-729 Decklin Foster Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:22:41 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-729 Maybe what I've (silently) asked of you is to hold me to that same thing. As it's slowly meandered and mutated into that one short statement, as I've learned the language to read it. Because at some dumb level all this theory comes down to: none of us read in a vacuum. The you or me that reads is intrinsically our performance to those who can "hold" us. So I'm not actually asking you. I'm asking me. I don't know about succeeding, so much, but it's a framework for actually trying. (And I love you for saying "a" sex. Brilliant.) (I wasn't going to post this at all, because I thought it sounded stupid, but writing about Greenaway inspired me to not hold back so much. And I know this is pretty trite but I think you've influenced me as much as him. Thank you.) Maybe what I’ve (silently) asked of you is to hold me to that same thing. As it’s slowly meandered and mutated into that one short statement, as I’ve learned the language to read it.

Because at some dumb level all this theory comes down to: none of us read in a vacuum. The you or me that reads is intrinsically our performance to those who can “hold” us.

So I’m not actually asking you. I’m asking me. I don’t know about succeeding, so much, but it’s a framework for actually trying.

(And I love you for saying “a” sex. Brilliant.)

(I wasn’t going to post this at all, because I thought it sounded stupid, but writing about Greenaway inspired me to not hold back so much. And I know this is pretty trite but I think you’ve influenced me as much as him. Thank you.)

]]> By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-22 http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-728 Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-22 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:25:17 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-728 [...] Once, Before Sex Was Post-Anything : Sexerati: Smart Sex. “[W]e have taken for granted that the open market is where sex is being produced, far more so than in our own bedrooms, and yet some still insist that sex is private, personal, or pure.” (tags: sex sexuality theory society blogging) [...] [...] Once, Before Sex Was Post-Anything : Sexerati: Smart Sex. “[W]e have taken for granted that the open market is where sex is being produced, far more so than in our own bedrooms, and yet some still insist that sex is private, personal, or pure.” (tags: sex sexuality theory society blogging) [...]

]]> By: Melissa Gira http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-727 Melissa Gira Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:10:43 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-727 You all make this worth doing. Please no don't stop. You all make this worth doing. Please no don’t stop.

]]> By: Jessica http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-724 Jessica Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:53:55 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-724 Gorgeous entry, Melissa! I dig the Foucault/post-modern references; tasteful without being played out or overdone. Brava. Gorgeous entry, Melissa! I dig the Foucault/post-modern references; tasteful without being played out or overdone.

Brava.

]]> By: Don Thieme http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-725 Don Thieme Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:39:57 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-725 Wow! ! I expect you to be difficult to hold to anything, but I would very much love to try. Wow! ! I expect you to be difficult to hold to anything, but I would very much love to try.

]]> By: Jason C. Romero http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-726 Jason C. Romero Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:57:12 +0000 http://www.sexerati.com/2007/08/21/once-before-sex-was-post-anything/#comment-726 "Sex is boring." - Foucault “Sex is boring.” - Foucault

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