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Derek Jarman's attitude to masculinity.

From:     duomo
Category: Life
Date:     05 June 2008
Time:     01:15 PM

Review:


"Until I'd enjoyed being fucked I had not reached balance manhood. When you overcome your fear 
you understand that gender has its own prison. When I meet heterosexual men I know they have 
experienced only half of love. Because as an unreconstructed man you had to be in control. It is about 
control. If you aren't the dominant partner in the sex act then you are emasulated, you are unsexed. It 
took a long time for me to realise the falsity of that. 'He's uptight, tight arsed' : you've got all these 
colloquial expressions about anal sex. Its difficult to overcome that conditioning. The arse is an 
erogenous zone for all men but whether they want to experience that is another matter"


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