The Now of Then
Time capsule from clippings on a table beside the couch
About the novels of de Sade and Pauline Réage, who wrote Story of O, published in the Village Voice (1980), in which I’m thinking about rabbit holes, where women can duck from domesticity: “In the pornographic vision, nothing exists but sex and sexual violence, and the empty spaces between sexual sessions. In the pornographic world, sex subsumes work, a…
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