![]() ![]() The election of Trump, and the #MeToo movement becoming really widespread, for example those happened during the writing of the book. Some of my initial impulses to write about a woman who is divorced from a past but who embodies sexual desire-those came from a world that already had a lot of misogyny and suspicion of overt sexuality. KW: The writing of the book happened over about seven years. Has your book assumed any new significance for you since that court decision? It explores concepts of desire, agency, power, beauty, and pleasure at their most confounding and difficult.” I’ve found this definition to be guiding because it’s quite broad: it doesn’t lay out a specific way that feminist porn must appear, but is instead interested in an unsettling of normative standards of sexuality and in asking probing questions.ĬD: Speaking of normative standards of sexuality: as we speak, it’s been less than a week since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. ![]() When I was working on White Wedding, I found very useful a book called The Feminist Porn Book, which gives the following definition of feminist porn: “using sexually explicit imagery to contest and complicate dominant representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class ability, age, body types, and other identity markers. And also to give them some feeling of being out of reality. To enact confusion at the bodily level of the reader to engage them in a way so that their senses are actually engaged and immersed to make them discomfited by their own responses to what they’re reading. Woods: The pornographic mode was appealing to me because of its potential to not just be academically unsettling or philosophically unsettling, but to be viscerally unsettling to the reader. In a year when the rights of women, queer, and trans people undergo fresh assaults every week-legal attacks on abortion and on trans children’s access to gender-affirming care being just two recent instances thereof- White Wedding frankly asserts our rights to sex, freedom, and power.Ĭhelsea Davis: What attracts you to writing porn, as a genre? Woods’s interlinked tales are refreshing in their refusal to frame sex either as morally degrading or as intrinsically liberating. From a tender fisting scene on a playground slide to a taxi driver who takes an unusual interest in his fares’ hookup habits, the fantasies in White Wedding push just as hard on the bounds of propriety as they do on those of literary genre. Indeed, those darker body genres, horror and fairytale, are also at play in Woods’s erotica-and they don’t always play nice. Can you imagine anything hotter? Can you imagine anything more terrifying? She would also know exactly what you want. Magic blurs with queer smut and kink as the woman seems to intuit exactly what each of her marks wants in their filthiest, softest heart of hearts-even if they don’t yet know they want it. Meanwhile, we slowly learn about the woman’s prior work in a pleasure mansion in the woods, where she fulfilled other women’s highly particular desires. A nameless woman arrives at a mountainside wedding, uninvited, and serially seduces anyone in her path, from the father of the bride to the caterer. Woods’s novella White Weddingis a psychedelic marriage of these two species of erotic reverie. ![]()
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