Literary Friction - Vile Bodies with Sara Pascoe
Literary Friction
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The Disgust of Desire
I think the hair thing is still a polemic issue which I also think is insane that we're in this day and age. The idea that pubic hair because somebody doesn't like it they're somehow wrong is so wrapped up in so many years of cultural mores, he says. To be hairy or not hairy it still becomes a political act and a political statement yeah whether you want it to or not. James Joyce's letters to his wife Laura are such a marriage of the high and the low and this idea of disgust and desire being twinned together in pursuit of a similar goal. If there are children in the room we will be referring to the existence of sex as I would say
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