While researching my PCA/ACA paper I came across a most interesting book entitled Endless Rapture by Helen Hazen. Now for those of you who don’t know, romance scholarship has now been listed in waves (Thank you, Eric Selinger for confirming this at dinnerlast week) and this book falls into the first wave which also includes [...]
Why Don’t You Remove that Beard, Lady?
I find straight women’s obsession with male/male erotica rather disturbing. Not because I think people shouldnp’t read or enjoy erotica or that I’m anti-gay or anti-sodomy. No, no. I get it. I get wanting to watch two hot men do dirty, dirty things to each other. Huzzah for voyeurism!
No, what I find disturbing isn’t the [...]
Heroes
I have just finished editing the paper I gave at the 2008 PCA. It went from an 8 page speech into a 15 page writing sample for graduate school applications. It was through this process that I came across Lilian R. Furst’s The Romantic Hero, or is he an Anti-Hero? ¹ an article that was published before I was [...]
Questions about Virginity
I am in the midst of reading Hanne Blank’s excellent new book Virgin: The Untouched History. I would recommend that you get yourselves to the bookstore or library immediately and at least read the very interesting and incisive introduction. For excerpts and other fabulousness go here.
It occurs to me that the problem with virginity is that [...]
