Acts of Service: "A sex masterpiece" (Guardian)

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not every f/f OR m/f dynamic is identical, but the funhouse mirror of the self that opens up between women is directly at odds with the dissolution of self and ethics i just described. A couple working as chauffeurs have been accused of stealing millions from the founder of Tin House Books. Over the previous decade I had talked myself all the way from an attraction to women into a political commitment to lesbianism, and all the way from a general pleasure in the indulgence of life and into a bitter shame towards all the things I used to enjoy – charm and harmless deceits, intrigues, vanity, pretty women, good dancers, cab rides and coffees out, men who whistled when I passed, remarks that made me blush.

While I (sadly) didn't find this as radical and daring as the cover blurb promises, I did find it consistently interesting, opening up conversations that don't, perhaps, get explored as deeply as they could be. And, rather than all the philosophizing, I longed for the fleshy descriptions of Anaïs Nin, the fantasies of Nancy Friday or even the thrilling nihilistic misanthropy of Ottessa Moshfegh – to be taken inside the body, to enjoy the physical pleasure of desire. at one point she says "women were valuable only until their bodies expired, women who gave themselves only to each other relinquished that value entirely.Fishman’s trying to deal with a range of overlapping issues here, around identity, class, patriarchy and various forms of power alongside what is/isn’t permissible sexual expression – what is, what should be, what might be forbidden. I know I am biased because I am exhausted with so many literary fiction books presenting women who required male validation even if they can't stand them, but I expected this to be a subversion of that where the intersection of desire is also influenced by how people DO feel about women instead of treating the relationships between women as something so simple and so natural that they must not mean as much because somehow, dating men is so, so much harder but also, of course, more rewarding. i dont usually read books that are so focused on sexuality but I had heard good things about this one. I admired her pushing the boundaries to talk about topics that are considered taboo, such as polyamory, infidelity, and manipulation.

Fishman's provocative debut covers topics of sexuality, morality, agency and desire through the lens of a lesbian 20-something in New York City, and the heterosexual couple she enters into a dubious relationship. Eve tentenna, ma solo un attimo, è troppo curiosa, il desiderio è forte, per Olivia, e molto probabilmente anche per l’ancora sconosciuto Nathan.to what extent does the patriarchy and gender roles influence our intrinsic thoughts regarding love and sex?

The degree to which these ladies are horrified by their own shameful, desperate, orgasmic delight in Nathan’s domination - his insistence that he knows exactly what they want despite their protests to the contrary - is exaggerated to the point of being laughable. genuinely cannot comprehend how a queer women seems to think women's attraction to other women is somehow less real than men's attraction to women. I couldn't understand why these two women would obsess so much over such a blatantly boring and insufferable man.Foto di Julian Wasser definita dallo Smithsonian Archives of American Art “tra le immagini documentarie chiave dell'arte moderna americana”. Maybe you will think that Eve and the people she becomes entangled with, Nathan and Olivia, don't act like real people. by the end there's an overarching premise that the good sex with nathan is enough to be the subject of the book's plot and eve's sexual journey, which even aside 'is this a coherent argument from open to close' (no) makes for a wobbly ass three-legged stool of a threesome dynamic.

But because I just found them so dull – and more than a little cliched, Anais Nin meets soft-core erotica meets The Story of O. Reminiscent of Sally Rooney's work, this challenging—and often disturbing—exploration of sex, bodies, narcissism, and a culture that no longer values sincerity is tonally darker and rife with cruelty. because the people "have things in common" (as if the only thing people can have in common is gender, as if men and women can't have things in common). So while I found the storyline and occasional musings to be interesting, this book was overwhelmingly a boring experience that left me very frustrated with the author. she talks about how there will be something missing in her life if she doesn't have sexual experiences with men because who else would appreciate her body and her femininity in the same way (which is both sexist and deeply transphobic).Uno strumento per andare alla scoperta, verso la conoscenza di altri corpi umani, e quindi di altre anime. But it’s not clear to me what’s meant to be somehow universal about Eve’s experiences and what’s supposed to be unique to her as a fictional character. But Fishman isn’t really interested in looking at the world in this way: her story seems to be aiming at allegory, but ends up in an uncomfortable halfway house between that and realism, in the end achieving neither .