Clipped from: Carnal Nation (share this clip) My interview with Shine Louise Houston is up on CarnalNation! Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston, who brought you the queer porn Crash Pad Series web episodes and the feature-length films Champion, Wild Kingdom, and Superfreak, has started a new online web project depicting masculine sexualities in a visual medium. [...]
Clipped from: Carnal Nation (share this clip) My latest Radical Masculinity column is up over at CarnalNation: Masculinity is not essential to the recipe of being a dominant sexual partner. And yet, this identity alignment assumption, the assumption that masculinity and dominance go together and are always aligned, prevails in nearly all aspects of contemporary [...]
Clipped from: Carnal Nation (share this clip) My review of the Seal Press book Good Porn is up on CarnalNation! It’s difficult for me to critique this book: Lust consumes porn in similar ways that I do, and we have a similar history with viewing porn, so most of my responses to this consist of, [...]
Clipped from: Carnal Nation (share this clip) My review of Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture is up on CarnalNation: Perhaps I had unrealistically high expectations for this book. “The basement smelled like sex,” the book starts. “That thick, musty scent that sits in the air and clings to everything it [...]
Clipped from: Carnal Nation by clp.ly Consuming sex and pornography have been seen as men’s domain for hundreds of years, if not more. I have my own theories as to why women have been denied sexual agency, such as the fear of the power behind women’s sexualities and thus the patriarchal need to control [...]
How to Make Masculinity Stop Hurting Radical Masculinity column at Carnal Nation November 11, 2009 My dad’s best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They’ve been friends for 35 years, longer than I’ve been alive. I got a [...]
A Manifesto for Radical Masculinity Radical Masculinity column at Carnal Nation September 30, 2009 Remember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years old? Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Jaheem Herrera of Georgia were both being subjected to unbearable anti-gay bullying [...]