Blogging the sex commons
Elizabeth Wood has a new article published in the journal Feminism and Psychology, entitled “Consciousness-raising 2.0: Sex Blogging and the Creation of a Feminist Sex Commons.” It touches on many of the issues she raised at Sex 2.0 in her session Creating the Sex Commons.
I just can’t say enough good things about Elizabeth. I have so much effing respect for her. I wish that I had a subscription to the journal so that I could read the full article, but I’m sure it’s amazing, like the rest of her work.
At Sexerati, Melissa has an excellent response piece. Quotage:
[I]f the feminist marketplace of ideas cannot support a true diversity of sexual theory, and neither can the mainstream, then maybe blogging is a wonderful, messy middleground. Personal sex blogging may be (hopelessly?) marginalized to the hoary Blogspots of the the web, but within every Penthousey story, there can still be an ethic of truth-telling. That ethic isn’t too different from our original feminist sex rebellion: against the over-medicalization and patholgization of women’s sexuality, and in favor of the multiplicity of bodies, genders, desires, and pleasures we ought to have the right to.
Following the publication of the article, Elizabeth is asking for input from sex bloggers:
want to add the kind of richness that more examples from blogs would give it. So I am asking you who read here and who contribute to the sex commons by writing your own personal sex narratives, in the spirit of collaborative publishing and participatory research: If you have a post that you think does an especially interesting job of articulating desire, of describing stigmatized sex in shameless ways, of extending a sense of sexual community, please let me know about it. Leave a link in the comments, or email me a link (elizabeth at sexinthepublicsquare dot org.
See her post at Sex in the Public Square for more details, and consider sharing some of your own writing. I’ve been looking through my archives trying to find something that really fits her criteria and have been dismayed that so far I’ve come up empty-handed. I guess this means I need to write more about actual fucking!