For this week, please use your post to respond to all aspects of the following prompt:
- Reflect on the “Puriteens” article from Rolling Stone. How is it rehashing the conversations that Vance discusses in “Pleasure and Danger”? How is Dickson approaching this issue differently than Vance? Choose a quote from Vance that you feel could add to the discussion about so-called “puriteens” and explain how and why.
- Analyze how the politics of both pleasure and danger (as discussed by Vance) play into your chosen additional reading (explicitly or implicitly).
Readings
Carol D. Vance, “Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality”
EJ Dickson. “Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet?” (Rolling Stone)
Additional Reading:
Hollibaugh, Amber. “Desire for the Future: Radical Hope in Passion and Pleasure.”
Discussion Question
