Collected here are 15 soundpieces
with explicit erotic content.  Compared, for example, to the somewhat bland and
conventional erotic of the short stories in The Erotic
Edge, this is a more daring and experimental work.  It includes
contributions from Annie Sprinkle, Susie Bright, Mistress Kat, Bunnie Buckskin
and Carrington McDuffle — presumably not necessarily the names they were given
at birth.  The tape insert instructs the listener to listen on headphones to
get the full benefit of the sound effects and specialized recording.  The
different performers don’t just read their stories but add all the heavy
breathing and groaning you might expect from erotic audio, and music and sound
effects also contribute to the whole experience.  In the longest piece, Jon
Bailiff takes on the role of a taxi cab driver describing sex he has with one
of his fares, and all the way through the windshield wipers go back and forth
in a weirdly erotic twist.  These performances are explicit, crude and
pornographic and they involve taboos such as sadism and incest as well as
plenty of objectification and even degradation.  Some listeners will find this
stupid and entirely unerotic.  Some may be shocked by the unwholesome values expressed
in the stories, which explore all sorts of perversity.  Nevertheless, for those
who are interested in exploring that side of their imagination, Cyborgasm
is at least a start in finding ways to do this.  Most conventional forms of
pornography in the form of videos or websites are very narrow and
disappointing, not just in poor production values and stupid plot lines, but
also in being utterly repetitious in its use of sexual imagery.  This recording
is hardly groundbreaking in its writing or use of sound, but it is mostly a
departure from the usual clichés.  Compared to erotic literary fiction, this
may lack variation in vocabulary or complexity of plot, but it more than makes
up for this in making much fuller use of the aural potential of a sound format than
a straightforward reading of a story. 

Link: Passion
Press

© 2004 Christian Perring. All
rights reserved.

Christian
Perring, Ph.D., is Academic Chair of the Arts & Humanities
Division and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College, Long Island.
He is also editor of Metapsychology Online Review.  His main
research is on philosophical issues in medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

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