Genet and Sartre’s Horses for Courses If … you are...:
Genet and Sartre’s Horses for Courses
If … you are able to see at the seam the thin line separating the enveloping myth from the enveloped myth, you will discover the truth, which is terrifying. This is why I do not fear to call this book, the most beautiful that Genet has written, the Dichtung und Wahrheit of homosexuality.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Preface to Genet’s The Thief’s Journal
Paul believes that he really began to fantasise about riding women when he was about twelve years old and he had begun to notice girls. “I just transferred my desire for a pony onto girls. I don’t want to ride guys, so the only thing left is to ride women.” It was at this critical point in his development that he saw an advertisment for a New York City Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet’s The Balcony. The ad featured a photograph of a woman dressed up as a horse in a very sexy outfit - the prostitute acting out a customer’s ponygirl fantasy. This was Paul’s eureka moment; he knew then and there that he wanted to have a ponygirl when he grew up.
Katherine Gates, Deviant Desires
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