I believe there is material from ancient Egypt - a lot of things were
scratched as graffiti into walls. Don't know for literary work but most
likely in the Satyricon. - Alan
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, mpalmer wrote:
So many things to think about with this topic, but one question that comes to
mind is this: When were the first images to appear in art of individuals
masturbating? Or what about the first mention in a literary work? I can't
think of anything from ancient Greece, nor from India, etc. but that's just
off the top of my head. Maybe somebody better versed in this stuff than I
would know.
m
On Oct 7, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
After the Kali Tal nettime blasting and my response, I'm hesitant to send
this out. But I'm proud of this work, and its association of sexuality,
dance, freedom and degradation - rendering the reader, at least myself,
uncomfortable. And this is definitely from a mail viewpoint, or at least a
ghostly male choreographer's viewpoing? Or is it? There's a whole area of
performance that's open to question.
I'm responding re: below and in some of the other dance-texts I've written
- to the fundamentally Apollonian / cool nature of western dance, where
eroticism is buried. Think of gender relations in ballet, or the cool
efficaceous computerized choreographies of Cunningham, or Rainer's slow and
steadied presentation. Early dance - what a catastrophic term - often
involved sexuality re: fertility rites, etc. I apologize for the general-
ization. Dance, in short, often involved caressing, fucking, rapture,
frisson, that was seemingly real. What I'm writing into is the Dionysian.
The difference might be between the aesthetics of eroticism and the non-
aesthetics of pornography, and here I'm on shakier ground, but I'm not
talking about a pornography which denigrates women or anyone for that
matter. Eroticism flourishes in the dance, but of course only goes so far -
the rest might be left up to the strip-club, which serves (if that's the
right word) a very different purpose. (The ground is falling away.) So
these are dances which won't be performed but could be - dances which would
close theaters, ruin reputations. The descriptions are obviously the barest
outlines; you can fill in the rest yourself.
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The Lek
Sex dances for one to four people.
The dancers are nude. There are no props.
Male dances alone while masturbating. He dances until he cums.
Female dances alone while masturbating. She dances until she cums.
Tethered: Male dances with his prick in a partner's mouth. The partner
crouches, mostly immobile.
Tethered: Female dances prone above a male partner with his prick in
her cunt. The dance continues until one or both of them have cum.
Tethered: Female dances prone coupling with a female partner. The dance
ends as above.
Tethered: Male dances prone, coupling with a male partner. The dance
ends when both have cum.
Tethered: Male or female dances with his or her mouth on a partner's
prick. The dances continues until the dancer or partner have cum.
Tethered: Male dances with one hand holding his prick erect.
Tethered: Male dances with his cock in a cunt or asshole. The partner is
on all fours.
Tethered: Female dances with one hand in her cunt.
Tethered: Female dances with one or more partners' fingers in her cunt.
Variant Tethered: Male dances with one or more partners' fingers in his
asshole. The dance ends when one or both have cum.
Variant Tethered: Female dances with one or more partners' fingers in
her asshole. The dance ends as above.
Tethered: Male or female dances with her partner's cock in her ass. The
partner is vertical holding him or her in front of him.
Pour: Male or female dancer cums on partners watching. The partners are
naked beneath him or her, masturbating. The dance ends when all have cum.
Variant Pour: Male or female dancer cums as in Pour. The dancer then
pisses on the partners beneath him or her. The dance ends when all cum.
Piss: The partners piss on the floor / on the male or female dancer.
The dancer continues until he or she slips. The dancer continues prone
until he or she cums.
Abject: The partners shit and piss on the floor. The male or female
dancer moves in a prone position until he or she is fully covered.
The dance ends when the dance cums.
Puppet: The male or female dancer moves with each hand fingering the
assholes of two partners. The dancer controls the partners. The dance
ends when the partners cum.
Lick: The male or female dancer moves either prone or on all fours,
licking the assholes of one to three partners. The dance ends when the
dancer or one of the partners cums.
Lick variation: The male or female dancers licks the assholes of one
to three partners while the partners shit. Dance ends as in Lick.
Scratch: The dancer masturbates while two partners scratch his or her
breasts and chest. The dance ends with cum and blood simultaneously.
Variant Scratch: The dancer masturbates with one hand, scratching a
male or female partner with the other. The dance ends as in Scratch.
Slap: The dancer masturbates while slapping two or three partners across
the groin. The dance ends with simultaneous bruises and cum.
Variant Slap: As in Slap, but the partners slap the dancer across the
groin.
Speech: The male or female dances while one to three partners masturbate
him or her. The dance only ends when the dancer cums.
Variant Speech: As in Speech, but the dancer masturbates one to three
partners, ending only when both dancers and partners have cum.
Life: Four dancers prone move within a small area, engaging each other
sexually. Both males and females cum multiple times. The dance ends with
pain and exhaustion, when no one can continue. If the dance is Arena
Life (see below), the audience decides when the dance ends.
Mine: The male or female dances while mining the holes of the partner
for saliva, lubricant, shit. The dancer eats what he or she finds.
Feed: The male or female dances while two partners mine his or her
holes, eating what they find.
Stop: The male or female dancer masturbates while two partners attempt
to stop him or her. The dance ends when the dancer cums.
Variant Stop: As in stop but the male or female dancer attempts to stop
one to three partners from masturbating. The dance ends when all the
partners cum.
Combinations: Any of the above dances may be danced in combination,
either in series or parallel. In the former, the dances follow each other;
in the latter, two or more dances are enacted simultaneously.
Arena Sex Dance: Any of the above with an audience surrounding the
dancers.
Variant Arena Sex Dance: As in Arena Sex Dance with the audience naked
and masturbating.
Endpoint: As in Variant Arena Sex Dance, ending only when all members of
the audience have cum.
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