Status Updates From Sexuality Beyond Consent: R...

Discourses that stake the permissibility of perverse desires on equity are oblivious to the effects of social asymmetries... To demand equality as a recognition for sexual variation to be deemed "benign" is to effectively exclude relations between subjects with intersecting minoritarian identities from the captivating affinities between pleasure, pain, and anguish.

happy to be reading this again :)

maybe this is just happening because I watched it last night and it was transformative, but relating everything in this book as I read it to Camp Miasma - like one can read camp miasma as a traumatophilic film interested in returning to trauma not to expel or heal it but for new possibilities & to explore the relation between aesthetic experience and sexual experience… still working this out

already life-altering