Sep
27
“But the specter of the slut is inhibiting even in a relatively permissive culture: it casts a shadow over the quotidian ways in which men and women court and proposition each other. It also makes some acts and scenarios seem beyond the pale—so frequently are they associated with humiliation in pornography that their enactment in life can seem psychologically and physically threatening for many women.”
Elaine Blair’s review of Nicholson Baker’s “House of Holes”
