by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 18, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
In the Chapter of Norah Vincent’s Self Made Man about her visits, in male disguise, to strip clubs, she writes, in partial explanation of men’s frequenting said clubs:When pure fucking and animal release is what you’re thinking about – and that...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 22, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I’ve never liked fancy strip clubs. I go to peep shows not to relax or to talk to women because I can’t comfortably talk to them elsewhere. I go first and foremost to get off, and that just doesn’t happen at expensive “gentlemen’s”...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 24, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
The day before the dreaded Saturday benefit reading, I had my little passel of sensitive-male poems ready to go, but an unwelcome thought was edging its way into my brain: that I should read “Close,” my museum-guard story, instead. I fought the impulse...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 25, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Before Jamie concludes his serialization of "Peep Show," I just wanted to interject with a brief psychosexual autobiography because a.) it doesn’t seem fair to drop the autobiographical burden entirely on Jamie, and b.) we’re both the products of...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Oct 26, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
It’s the Saturday of the show, and I feel awful, my stomach tied in a knot. In the afternoon I stop by the Lusty Lady, hoping to relieve my anxiety over reading a story about jerking off to strippers by jerking off to strippers. Sass isn’t here, and...
