Porn. Trendy! New!: "have some sort of U.N.-style wet-T-shirt contest"

Our emails just missed eachother as you went to sleep.

I feel as though I am reaching for some sort of threshold, some sort of edge to pull myself over.

Also, I feel like wearing summer boots.

You wrote me that you are enjoying reading this blog. I am pleased. And it is also good for me to know and have defined for me the things I do that you enjoy. It matters.


This was just published today. They quote Kipnis, the woman who wrote the one book I like. It is not the book they reference. It is quite ridiculous. Especially the rarely studied part. I have a reading list for them:

Profs: Porn serves as unique learning tool
By Christiana Schmitz April 21, 2006
It’s like bathroom habits or masturbation: you just don’t talk about it. Then, all of a sudden, it’s on your required reading list. Pornography was once a topic heavily debated but rarely studied. Now, academics are beginning to find substance in the once disgraceful genre. Pornography is becoming a trendy topic intellectually, and what Time magazine has dubbed “the porn curriculum” has slowly trickled into to Northwestern academics.