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← Back to all issuesGranta 110: Sex
Spring 2010
Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we’ve been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress. It has been at the centre of rituals and responsible for revolutions. We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us and helps us. But whatever we think about it, however we do it, it defines us.
From this Issue
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The Unwriteable
Mark Doty
‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’
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Tokyo Island
Natsuo Kirino
‘The lottery to choose her next husband was to take place at the Imperial Palace.’
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Rousseau and the Pussycat
Marie Darrieussecq
‘I am aware that according to present-day criteria, the story I am about to tell contains several shocking scenes which fall within the realms of sexual harassment and cruelty towards animals.’
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Zeppelin
Herta Müller
‘This Zeppelin may not float high and silver in the sky, but it does set your mind adrift.’
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Bianca Burning
C.K. Williams
‘The sexual terror lions are roaring into my ears as I make my way between their cages’
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Four Mammals Contemplating Sex
Dave Eggers
Image 1 of 4 Bespectacled Bear, 12 January 2010, 4.51 p.m. Image 2 of 4...
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This is for You
Emmanuel Carrère
‘I have a proposition for you. From this moment on, you will do everything I tell you to do.’
