January 2012
The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legg’d scissor-man....
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From Struwwelpeter (Heinrich Hoffman, 1845)
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The Sexuality of Restriction
I am certainly not opposed to a free and unrestricted internet but total freedom does bring greater creative responsibility to artists. To me much of the pornography on the internet is desexualized by it’s very excessiveness. It derives its sexuality not from the art or skill of the image but from the shock of taboo depicted. But with the shear volume of it available it’s commonality...
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