The Anus: An FAQ, Part Three

The act of restricting one's own pleasure in deference to the pleasure of others is, for Marx, the precondition of relating to others in an exchange society.

“‘To forget oneself’ is to risk joining up, through the flux of excrement, with the non-differentiation of desire.”

Guy Hocquenghem

Part Two of The Anus: An FAQ is available here.

Q: How do adults experience anal erotism?

The Protestant reformer Martin Luther accorded a great amount of importance to the ever-present and ever-seducing temptations of the Devi…