Exploring erotic encounters : : the inescapable entanglement of tradition, transcendence and transgression / / edited by John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Grider, John T.,; Van Reenen, Dionne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 93.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 pages).

Erotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable to do. In this volume, discussions of the erotic as an extraordinary part of the human condition, manifest in examples such as: exoticised voyages to faraway lands; the thrills of ancient combat; the escape and enchantment of eroticized performance; transgressive notions of the female jouissance ; the delights of the sexual pursuits in the virtual domain; the political possibilities of stigmatized, queer pleasure; and perceptions of ‘fetishes’ which include relationships with inanimate beings. It would appear that what is required for these out-of-the-ordinary quests, are pointed actions – movements away from the monotony of life’s rhythms and outside the shelter of an otherwise predictable materiality. Contributors are Jon Braddy, John Dayton, Rita Dirks, John T. Grider, Billy Huff, Maciej Musiał, Naomi Stekelenburg, Dionne van Reenen and Tianyang Zhou.

Table of Contents

Introduction / John T. Grider and Dionne van Reenen -- Erotic Spaces -- ‘For Those People’s Pleasure’: the Pacific Islands and Sailor Eroticism in the 19th Century / John T. Grider -- Jack’d, Douban Group, and Feizan.com: the Impact of Cyberqueer Techno-Practice on the Chinese Gay Male Experience / Tianyang Zhou -- Between (Clean) Sheets: the Role of Disgust and Hygiene Strategies in Fifty Shades of Grey and the Writing of the Marquis de Sade / Naomi Stekelenburg -- Erotic Texts -- Eros and Polemos: Eroticised Combat in the Trojan War Myth / John Dayton -- Feminist Pleasure in Fifty Shades of Grey / Rita Dirks -- Erotic Visuals -- Queerness Underground: the Abject, the Normal, and Pleasure in Cruising and Interior.Leather Bar / Jon Braddy and Billy Huff -- One Gentleman and One Lady: Relating Bodies in the Ballroom / Dionne van Reenen -- Loving Dolls and Robots: From Freedom to Objectification, from Solipsism to Autism? / Maciej Musiał.