Sex, Death, and Lexiconsiousness This week, while reading Nabokov’s masterpiece, I was also traveling around the National Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. My absorption of the narrative was contextualized by the event — Japanese trees in bloom, tourists and GW students of all ages, races, intellects, couplings, and persuasions.
Various thoughts on love and sex in the 19th century Perhaps aptly, “Alice Mitchell as a ‘Case of Sexual Perversion’” was published by a Comstock: T. Griswold Comstock. His analysis was appalling, in my opinion. There was indeed something wrong with Alice Mitchell – some sort of mental disorder that caused her to murder another […]
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Comstock Act of 1873. The act was geared towards preventing the sale of birth control through the mail. It was eventually expanded to include the complete prohibition of birth control distribution and use. The Comstock Act received a major blow in 1916, when Margaret Sanger opened the first birth […]
The museum managed to create a traceable history of our modern attitudes towards sex. I especially liked how all of the exhibits (and items in the gift shop) were presented in an open and informative manner.
Sexual Discourse Michel Foucault is a tricky guy. He completely fools the reader while he is summarizing the history of sexual repression, beginning with the Victorian Era. He steadily goes through the thought process of what we all believe to be the true political history of our sexual attitudes. He calls these ideas the repressive […]
