![]() ![]() One would be wrong, for each new book-and there seem to be a couple more in the pipeline-offers new surprises and new challenges that spur me on and reopen the scar tissue at the same time. An exaggeration, of course, but having now churned out three books on queer cinema, video, and photography, and edited three volumes of collected vintage erotic drawings-all of them copiously illustrated-one would think that either I would have the swing of things by now or I would have got it out of my system, contentedly looking forward to retirement and the prospects of having a real sex life as opposed to a symbolic one. ![]() After 25 years of historical research in sexual representation in cinema, video, photography, and the graphic arts, it sometimes seems I have invested as much energy navigating problems in visually illustrating my research-problems of censorship and self-censorship, whether political, legal, bureaucratic, economic, logistical, technical, or neurotic-as I have in writing about it.
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