This obsession has brought Bram Stoker into the bedroom, where it all began in Chapter Two or Three of the original Dracula. Instead of sex as becoming "one flesh" or the "double backed beast," sex becomes a kind of food-feeding, the mingling-drinking of blood and the transformation of the lover into a more aesthetic and ethereal species, a penetration at the throat, the locus of speech. Isn't that what modern sex is in a consumer-mad culture--a displacement of genital visceral power and a displacement enjoyment of the sensuality of the entire body?
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This obsession has brought Bram Stoker into the bedroom, where it all began in Chapter Two or Three of the original Dracula. Instead of sex as becoming "one flesh" or the "double backed beast," sex becomes a kind of food-feeding, the mingling-drinking of blood and the transformation of the lover into a more aesthetic and ethereal species, a penetration at the throat, the locus of speech. Isn't that what modern sex is in a consumer-mad culture--a displacement of genital visceral power and a displacement enjoyment of the sensuality of the entire body?
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