Happy Valentine's Day, freaks and lovers. I’ve got a sweet treat for you: an audio essay on desirous gazes, the theatre of kink, and the wild vulnerability of wanting, all seen through the lens of FIT’s recent Fashion and Psychoanalysis exhibit.

IN THIS EPISODE:

- Trouble the Freudian gender binary of man as fetishist and woman as narcissist

- Explore the queer gaze, and new models for loving and lusting after each other

- Hear a few confessions about my own fetishes, from sunglasses to leather gloves

- Explore kink as an outlet for violent urges more commonly repressed and or channeled into war and conflict

- Consider the ways in which surrendering to being looked at and looking at others with shameless admiration might be an erotic practice for personal transformation and deeper connection

LET'S GET METAPHYSICAL

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MUSIC CREDIT

Hot Stone Meditation by Yuri Megis

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