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Words with Susannah Breslin. Susannah Breslin is a Los Angeles-based writer, photographer, comixxx-maker, and artist who covers the subject of sex, in addition to other topics. Her articles have appeared in Salon, Harper's Bazaar, Variety, BUST, Playboy.com, and the UK's Arena among other publications. She has also written an extensive array of short stories for the US market, and worked on erotic comixxx for Fantagraphics and Headpress. In the Summer of 2003, Future Tense Books will be publishing a collection of her short stories. She has also appeared as a reporter on Playboy TV's Sexcetera and appeared on Politically Incorrect and CNN, discussing President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. She grew up in Berkeley, California. She is 6'2" and holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Literature and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
Posted on Saturday 28 June 2003  The Copydesk: Why do you think worldwide society, in general, has a problem with pornography? Susannah Breslin: Recently, I attended BookExpo America. I was there to find a publisher for a book I'm working on with illustrator Anthony Ventura, The Fetish Alphabet. The endeavor did not go well. Trying to find a mainstream publisher to support a provocative book filled with erotic content was harder than I had imagined. In the main lobby afterwards, the girlfriend I had come to the event with, writer Dana Harris, and I stood discussing pornography, a subject in which we are both well-versed. We were talking about how obscene, in a way, pornography truly is. Dana compared porn to open-heart surgery. I concurred with her assessment. There's something fundamentally disconcerting about pornography that transcends the sexual act. Porn peels back our skins, invades our orifices, and exposes what normally lies enigmatically hidden underneath. At the same time, our human nature is laid bare in porn, as the two bodies before us burrow into one another with a strange mix of incredible longing and incredible insatiability. What we see in porn is, like the subjects of photojournalist James Nachtwey's war photos, almost more than we can bear to see of our own humanity. Some of us cannot bear to look at all. Some of us cannot bear to look away. |
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