I spent Monday evening in conversation with BDSM model and author, Ariel Anderssen at London’s Last Tuesday Society. I will write more about it because Ariel is very wise about sex work, freedom, power and submission. I am too tired to form thoughts coherent enough for it to be something readable, but talking to her made me think of value judgements placed on art, and how often that judgement still harks back to the largely protestant culture we still find ourselves living in the shadow of in the UK.
Have you read 'the Happy Stripper' by Dr. Jacki Willson? She talks wonderfully about how low brow art (burlesque in this case) invades 'high' brow spaces. It is wonderful.
Have you read 'the Happy Stripper' by Dr. Jacki Willson? She talks wonderfully about how low brow art (burlesque in this case) invades 'high' brow spaces. It is wonderful.