Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sexerati Is Crushed Out
filed under: Sexerati Hearts by Melissa Gira
Crushed out, meaning, dear sweet fuck, has Spring sprung up so full upon us, with not just strapped-on sandals and heady notions of nonstop skin, but smart, smart ass inspiration in the form of well, what we’ve been reading between the dressing and the undressing:
Shake Well Before Use is Ariel Waldman’s daily compendium of “art, advertising, sex, & technology.” Convergence is the theme: where innovation & sex bleed from boutique to pop, the edge to the mainstream, and then, how sex is sold back to us. She’s sassy as hell, and her Twitters will make you fall in geek love.
Sex and the Ivy is “a bleeding heart nympho’s guide to Harvard life.” Elle’s blog shocks in that it’s so soulful about sex, and not just for those harboring tweedy Cambridge-based fetishes. And I do. But also, clever and taut writing about sex that refuses to turn an eye from the hard bits, physical or emotional? There’s precious little. Bring on the book deal already.
Jezebel, oh Jezebel, you’d been hinted to me long before your perfectly golden and gaudy birth on Monday, and thank fuck, not just for deconstructing what passes for pop media for women (all the while supposedly offering us the same, but you are so much more), but for proof that passionate writing about sexual politics (yes it is) needn’t be bare, pared down, and without flourish & heady pomo reference. My every run-on today is for you.
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