tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post113838894178610960..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Erotic AnimalsCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41461353752849362842007-01-31T03:36:00.000-05:002007-01-31T03:36:00.000-05:00Hello, JJ!
I invite you too see some of my revers...Hello, JJ!<br /><br />I invite you too see some of my reverse glass paintings, inspired by medieval miniatures.<br />Your article gave me the courage to submit these works on a 'sex issue' show.<br />...but until that, you may see my pictures on www.projekt30.com, on the 'member pages'.<br />My name is Anamaria Ungureanu, I am a Romanian woman, living in Transylvania.<br />regards,<br />A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138795841906285792006-02-01T07:10:00.000-05:002006-02-01T07:10:00.000-05:00For what it's worth, there's a Wikipedia article o...For what it's worth, there's a Wikipedia article on "Furry fandom" that includes a section on sexuality.<BR/><BR/>Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom.Ancrene Wiseasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02075637582360688845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138720744270293552006-01-31T10:19:00.000-05:002006-01-31T10:19:00.000-05:00Ah, you're right of course. Having no knees may ha...Ah, you're right of course. Having no knees may have been an impediment for them too ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138719770351065122006-01-31T10:02:00.000-05:002006-01-31T10:02:00.000-05:00Glad you found it interesting. There is one chaste...Glad you found it interesting. There is one chaste animal above: the elephant, incapable of feeling sexual desire without an aphrodisiac.<BR/><BR/>JJJeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138718957975738192006-01-31T09:49:00.000-05:002006-01-31T09:49:00.000-05:00This is very interesting, and close to my own rese...This is very interesting, and close to my own research area.<BR/>How about including some animals used as a sample of celibacy, such as the bee?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138620653539967672006-01-30T06:30:00.000-05:002006-01-30T06:30:00.000-05:00Thanks, Karl. Those are some useful points. As you...Thanks, Karl. Those are some useful points. As you guessed, the audience for the entry is not medievalists; typical of such encyclopedias is that the intended audience is listed as everyone from high schoolers on up. I was asked to concentrate, though, on classical and medieval materials. Perhaps that gives a patina of stateliness to what is a somewhat risque subject.<BR/><BR/>Still, I like your point about King Kong and cross-species passion. I saw the film with my eight year old son. Interestingly, the only part of the film that really got to him were (1) the native boy on skull island and his puzzling reaction to chocolate [isn't chocolate a universal language? What kind of crazy kid doesn't take a candy bar?] and (2) the segment where a hapless explorer is devoured by a worm [nightmare inducing; funny how insects are so much more alien than fellow mammals].Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138580099928434002006-01-29T19:14:00.000-05:002006-01-29T19:14:00.000-05:00Spectacular and thorough argumrnt.Spectacular and thorough argumrnt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138490821898982522006-01-28T18:27:00.000-05:002006-01-28T18:27:00.000-05:00Yeah, I was wondering about the intended audience ...Yeah, I was wondering about the intended audience of this article, too. You might nod towards early modern animal eroticism (at the very least), and Karl's suggestion that you mention furries is well taken, at least by me. Dan Savage of the Savage Love column has indeed written about them.<BR/><BR/>As for the Inuit/American Indian question, I think that it's generally held that the Inuits (formerly called the Eskimos) comprise an ethnic/cultural category distinct from that of the so-called American Indian.<BR/><BR/>And, I agree, that was a lot of fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138461309894479302006-01-28T10:15:00.000-05:002006-01-28T10:15:00.000-05:00For contemporary bestiality: here's the obvious on...For contemporary bestiality: here's the obvious one. The not-quite-bomb, Peter Jackson's remake of <I>King Kong,</I> (discussions <A HREF="http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/the_re_return_of_arbitrary_but_fun_friday/" REL="nofollow">here</A> and <A HREF="http://pandagon.net/2006/01/15/king-kong-and-the-struggle-to-suspend-disbelief/" REL="nofollow">here</A>) which ends of course w/ the death of the beast that Anne Darrow loves but also with the totally unsatisfactory rushing of AD into writer Jack Driscoll's (Adrian Brody) arms, and so returning to proper human sexuality.<BR/><BR/>But it does say something about the reevaluated boundaries of the human and animal rights and so forth that such a huge picture eventually centers around the desire (if not the act) for bestiality.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1138460421598333732006-01-28T10:00:00.000-05:002006-01-28T10:00:00.000-05:00Well, that's a lot of fun! Great image, by the way...Well, that's a lot of fun! Great image, by the way!<BR/><BR/>Because this Encyclopedia isn't a medievalist-specialist work, my main suggestion here would be to include more contemporary human/animal sexuality: Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (or the silly version of this in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, or <A HREF="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44683" REL="nofollow">this</A>); the Furries or the Fuzzies or whatever they're called (Re/Search or some outfit like them probably has a book on them); that persistent element since at least the 70s of fantasies of human/Dolphin sex.<BR/><BR/>What seems to distinguish the latter at least from the prehistoric models you cite is that the h/D seems world or personal transformative in goal (to make things as they could be) versus h/horse or h/cow which seems to be functionalist (to make things as they should be). One's transgressive, one's normal: not that these boundaries hold up too well.<BR/><BR/>Also would like to see something on the punishments for human/animal sexuality: these are in the Hebrew scriptures, but also medieval examples, and examples continue with debates among animal rights people over whether or not human/animal sexuality is a kind of rape. Joyce Salisbury's animal book has a chapter on bestiality. And I think Dan Savage took on bestiality a few months back.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>I've got a few notes on various bits in this draft (which I'm reading over my coffee while procrastinating on reworking my bit on the Wild Herdsman...):<BR/><BR/><I>their ability to triumph over their own animal-like flesh</I><BR/><BR/>Just to clarify something you know, but which the audience of this encyclopedia wouldn't know necessarily: this triumph isn't a denial of the flesh, as it's usually thought to be, but a mastery. The always present flesh is tamed or domesticated and so made into a vehicle to help the spirit. flesh:spirit::animal:human, except that the flesh is less dubiously part of the person than the animal is part of the human...<BR/><BR/><I>American Indian buffalo or deer; Inuit whales and seals</I><BR/><BR/>Aren't Inuits strictly speaking American Indians among other things? I wonder if there's a better term for the group of peoples whose work you're referencing in the first group?<BR/><BR/><I>Corinthian mirror illustrates Eros grasping a cock in front of his crotch</I><BR/><BR/>! Is there anyway to write this so it isn't so puerily funny to me? Probably impossible, but I don't think that's your fault. Maybe could go in the next graph, though.<BR/><BR/>One more little thing, about the Gorgon. I don't have it handy, but you might own a copy, and if you do, open your Walter Map Nugis to 367 for a story of necrophilia and a gorgon's head, which, while not relevant to this encyclopedia entry, is still a total hoot.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com