Desiring Images: Sex and Sexuality

Sex is the ultimate metaphor, shifting signer par excellence, imbricated and resonating with a vast spectrum of human activity. It gives us the best and worst of moments, provokes experiences, sublime, disastrous or merely trivial. One has to be impressed by the sheer duration, let alone the intensity, of our species’ preoccupation with the carnival of feelings and behaviours intimately or distantly related to its means of reproduction. Writing, speaking, teaching, diagnosing, scolding, pontificating, rhapsodizing, or giggling about sexuality by the open-or closed-minded by high-, middle-, or low-brows, in places and times repressed or liberated has flourished across the reach of history.

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