Perversion Is Us?: Eight Notes
"In a way, notes make an end run around anxiety. And anxiety shows up a lot around sex. You may not agree with Bronski’s (in press a) assertion that “everyone likes . . . slasher films where sex and anxiety are bound together and released in the spattering of red fluid,” buthundreds of millions of box-office dollars can’t be all wrong. As Sallie Tisdale, a Buddhist whose Talk Dirty to Me (1994) made Newsweekheadlines several years ago, wrote, “the merging of two into one in orgasm, this blending of identity, combines bliss and anxiety in astrange stew” (p. 281).