Episode #2 of Ban Sex Now! is now online. Alex and Bella ask me about whether it is possible to have a non-fascist sex life and I pull on a bunch of things percolating for me at the time, which were to do with Deleuze, Foucault and D.H. Lawrence…
I say “at the time” because I believe this episode was recorded sometime in July or August 2022, not long after I first moved to Newcastle and before I finished my second book. It is hard to situate it now in my memory. I was in the midst of an earth-shattering mental breakdown at this point, although you can’t really tell… Things were really bad.
It is also recorded prior to my coming-out, and about a year before I started taking hormones, so watching it back now is like listening to a stranger. Admittedly, I think this stranger misunderstands a few things being wrestled with… Forgive me for that.
Nevertheless, it is a fun document of a really enjoyable chat, and actually a really interesting time capsule of someone thinking about their relationship to sex for the first time in a long time, right before they cracked the proverbial egg. I think there are a lot of seeds of ideas in this chat that have since fully blossomed since.