An Inclusive Litany

3/10/97

In her book Erotic Faculties, University of Nevada art history professor and performance artist Joanna Frueh sets out not merely to study pornography, but to generate it. In a section called "Mouth Piece," she declares: "You call me Joanna the Slippery. I like this, my c**t wet for you. I put my finger in my c**t, in and out, slowly, as we're talking on the bed, then to my mouth, and taste, lick it—almost as if I'm not aware of what's happening." Frueh claims that her writing style is politically motivated: "The erotic scholar is willing to be sloppy as sex is sloppy," she writes, adding that "tight" prose is something required of women by heterosexual men, for obvious reasons.