LOL INCEST
Oct. 22nd, 2008 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gogmagogGetting ready to teach Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"; I wish I'd thought to bring my stopwatch, because I want to time how long it takes for my students to overcome their inhibitions and for someone to bring up the topic of lesbian incest. XD
We read it in one of my Victorian classes a couple of years ago, and I seemed to be the lone voice in the wilderness suggesting lesbo incest. But seriously, how else can you read a poem that features a girl telling her sister to "hug me, kiss, me, suck my juices" and "eat me, drink me, love me," and then features said sister kissing her "with a hungry mouth" and then licking fruit juice from all over her body?
And that's not even the most sexual moment in the poem!
Anyway, I will report on whatever lulz may or may not ensue in today's class. (We're also reading Chinua Achebe's "Dead Men's Path," which is almost as interesting if less pr0ny.)
We read it in one of my Victorian classes a couple of years ago, and I seemed to be the lone voice in the wilderness suggesting lesbo incest. But seriously, how else can you read a poem that features a girl telling her sister to "hug me, kiss, me, suck my juices" and "eat me, drink me, love me," and then features said sister kissing her "with a hungry mouth" and then licking fruit juice from all over her body?
And that's not even the most sexual moment in the poem!
Anyway, I will report on whatever lulz may or may not ensue in today's class. (We're also reading Chinua Achebe's "Dead Men's Path," which is almost as interesting if less pr0ny.)
