Ideas

I have an art book from Japan with a picture of a piece by Makoto Aida. The piece is a video where he stands in front of a wall on which are written the Japanese syllables I de a with his back to the audience and masturbates. This man in Shanghaii had a similar idea. He's his own kind of artist.

I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts this weekend, and stumbled upon one by Leonore Tieffer. In it she discussed the hypersexualization of our lives, the desire to compare and compete with others that this is resulting in, the destructive trends encouraged by the introduction of viagra, and the narrowing of our sexual imagination.
She believed that many of the problems in sexual relationships were things that could be solved through discussion and increasing connection and intimacy between people, and that the modern approach of medicating and focusing on the erection as the most important aspect of sexual function/dysfunction was a reflection of our society's phallocentrism. Except, when she said it the first time, she accidentally said fellowcentrism. Or perhaps it was fallowcentrism.
I guess they all work just as well, and I like them all.
The podcast has been taken down as of this morning,(Good work as usual, cbc.ca!)otherwise I would link to it here