sex

sexual politics in Chalker’s Soul Rider series

February 25, 2010

I’ve finished Jack Chalker’s five volume “Soul Rider” series and since, I’ve been obsessing more and more about issues of sex, gender and sexuality raised by the work. So here we are on this amazing place called World. There are areas that are more or less like our planet where the “conventional” physical laws work: [...]

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surviving the Eighties on Jack Chalker’s Well World

January 7, 2010

Has anyone out there in the greater blog-i-verse ever heard of Jack Chalker? He saved my sanity in the 1980’s. I was a dorky, shy, hypersensitive high school kid then; confused about a lot of things: adulthood, sexuality, my relationship to the world beyond the cookie cutter NoVA suburb that I grew up in, you [...]

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Percy Jackson rant: sex in Greek means f***ing around

September 5, 2009

What’s up with the sex lives of these Greek gods?!? Hera, the goddess of marriage, is totally pissed off about Zeus’ fooling around. Yet she sticks it out with him for thousands of years. There’s some little quip that they went for couples counseling but I’m not that sure it really helped the divine king [...]

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“Twilight” rant 14: doesn’t Bella mean beautiful?

July 20, 2009

A friend recently sent me this funny U-tube video of Edward Cullen trying to court Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Naturally she’s completely turned off and ends up “slaying” him by the end. Apparently she didn’t like his stalker tendencies. I agree with the Multiply writers about that: Edward’s whole stalker business is pretty creepy. Bella [...]

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“Twilight” rant 5: Bella versus Rosalie

May 18, 2009

What’s up with Bella and Rosalie? They are less than friendly in the first novel, “Twilight.” Yet by the close of “Breaking Dawn,” they’ve become the best of buds. For much of the series Bella is preoccupied with Rosalie’s beauty and seems very self-critical in comparison. We finally learn in “Eclipse” that Rosalie is completely [...]

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“Twilight” rant 4: sex with Alice and Jasper

May 10, 2009

Now I don’t know about you, but I think that the Alice/Jasper story is amazing. It is uber romantic–she’s been looking for him for years though they’ve never met. He’s been lost and in emotional anguish for decades because of his unhealthy diet. (He’s got an excellent name, too!) They truly are the perfect couple. [...]

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