True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships

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For me, this inconclusion, which is not unlike philosopher Jacques Derrida’s conception of différance, partially characterizes lesbian Desire. Sometimes intensely sexual, other times subtly romantic, this emotion is always incredibly powerful.

There’s also an underlying reference to impotence by Count Fujiwara where he quips about the penis still being intact before death outlining the gender politics of the film. Dorothy Arzner's The Wild Party (1929) has been reclaimed for a lesbian cinematic canon, but it is only relatively recently that scholars have engaged more directly with the homoerotics of Arzner's films, and the question of the representability of female homosexuality in late 1920s Hollywood classical cinema.Renate Stendhal sweeps out the old myths about bed death, the notion that lesbian couples tend to be too close to maintain sexual desire. Portrait of a Lady on Fire won Best Screenplay at Cannes and it was the first movie directed by a woman to be awarded a Queer Palm.

I found only one book that remembered, step-by-step, women’s new thinking and it was a French book: Cathy Bernheim’s Perturbation, My Soeur. Society tells us to look and act and be a certain way, and even if our attitude is Fuck that sexist crap, we’ve still internalized it.As two lesbians enact these roles, the to and fro of their mutual/ized lesbian Desire(s) emerges as fundamentally mutable, its very essence active mutation, change, motile transformation on the textual (and material) plane(s). The focus of this work has been almost exclusively on deterosexual women, albeit not necessarily constructed as in the first instance sexual beings.