Issue #22: Pornography & Censorship

Contents:

• Inscribing the Body: An Introduction
• Jennifer Lane / “Girl Talk”
• Barbara O’Dair and Abby Tallmer / “Sex Premises”
• Dion Farquhar / “Pure Porn”
• Forum
• Edith Wharton / from “Beatrice Palmato”
• Marc Cholodenko / from “The Story of Vivant Lanon” (translated by John Satriano)
• Lisa Duggan, Nan D. Hunter, Carole S. Vance / “False Promises: Feminist Antipornography Legislation”
• Chris Martin / Transsexual Interview / “World’s Greatest Cocksucker”
• Matias Viegener / “There’s Trouble in That Body: Queer Fanzines, Sexual Identity and Censorship”
• Andrea Slane / “Unconventional Weapons”
• Ennio Flaiano / “1963” (translated by John Satriano)
• Marianne Hauser f “Scandal at the Bide-A-Wee Nursing Home for Mature Seniors”
• Mira-Lani Oglesby / “Henry and Ray and the Old Guy in the Wheelchair and Two Cops and Me and Sean Penn”
• Kathy Acker / from The Fall of the United States, “Murder”
• Mel Freilicher / “Fight the Power: Diseased Pariah News, etc.”
• Samuel R. Delany / from Citre et Trans
• Raymond Federman / “Once Upon a Time in the Grass”
• Carole S. Vance / “The Pleasure of Looking: The Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography versus Visual Images”
• John Greyson / from “The Making of Monsters: A Musical About Anti-Gay Violence”
• Barbara Henning / “Resumé”
• Karl Keller / “What It’s Like to Grow Up in Manti, Utah”
• Cris Mazza / “Hesitation”
• Joyce Carol Oates / from “Martyrdom”
• Rob Hardin / “Still”
• Mark Wisniewski / “Full Circle”
• Kevin Ray / “Obvious Advertisement: Robert Duncan and The Kenyon Review”
• Mel Freilicher / “Prolog”
• Edward Field / “Sex in Poetry, A Meditation On My Poem, ‘Triad’”
• Greg Boyd / “Horny”
• Roy Schneider / “Pubic Skies”
• Richard Kostelanetz / “Flirting”
• Tom Jurek / from Straight Fiction
• Stephen-Paul Martin / “Double Bed”
• Lyn Butler Oaks / “Twins”
• Ronald Sukenick / “The Flood”
• Jean Mainil / “Pornography and Academe: Compulsory Introduction”
• Ben Marcus / “Urinating, A Forceful Endeavor”
• Michael Brodsky / from * * *
• Rikki Ducornet / “Picotazo and Extravaganza,” from Birdland
• Pasquale Verdicchio / “Censoring the Body of Ideology: The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini”
• Stephen D. Gutierrez / “Wartime in Fresno”
• Robert Coover / from The Adventures of Lucky Pierre, “Man Walking at 24 Frames per Second”
• Harold Jaffe / “F2M”

Art:

Joel Lipman / “Jesse Helms’ Body” Chris Martin / “World’s Greatest Cocksucker” Tuli Kupferberg / “The Old Fucks at Home” M Rat / Three Polaroids Greg Boyd / Two Linocuts Gail Schneider / Acrylic on paper Tuli Kupferberg / “Some Kinda Asshole” Derek Pell / from “The Elements of Style” Contributors’ Notes cover design by David Quattrociocchi