Question 1:
What inspired you to become vocal about female sexuality -- a specific event, a general frustration, a philosophical imperative, a sexual desire . . . ?
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Question 1: What inspired you to become vocal about female sexuality -- a specific event, a general frustration, a philosophical imperative, a sexual desire . . . ? |
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 What inspired me to write about sex? I write about problems. All our stories are stories about problems, I think -- and writing, like creative work, is a matter of solving problems, a continual puzzling out of the correct word, the proper phrase, the point of view. I found myself in my mid-thirties, finally admitting that sex was still -- had always been -- a problem in my life, an unsolved conundrum, a mystery I wanted to fathom. It was a problem because I was anxious about it -- anxious about myself as a sexual creature, about my desires and fantasies, about the importance sex seemed to play in my life. So I set out to understand this. I began to look at sex the way I've looked at other subjects, striving for objectivity, to drop preconceived notions or expectations and just look at it -- in myself, in others, in culture. This itself is taboo, of course -- we are supposed to view sex with preconceived notions, with societal norms, and a neutral position is, oddly enough, a transgressive one. But it allowed me to solve this problem for myself -- it allowed me, in essence, to own that transgression, the transgression, the crime, of being sexual as only I am. |
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