From: ssliwinski-AT-accel.net (Sharon Sliwinski)
Subject: Re: cummings again
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:58:30 -0500


> From my 
>reading of Shannon Bell, who interviews many a prostitute performer, 
>some prostitutes indeed see their profession as therapeutic.  What's 
>interesting is that these women, with no advanced degrees, compare 
>themselves/their function, without knowing it, to the sacred prostitutes  
>of 5,000 BC who did not make a distinction between the sexual and the 
>spiritual.  On the other hand, there are those in Prostitutes Anon who 
>are trying to get out.  


This is fascinating! Especially the link between sexual and spiritual. Could
you please expand? or direct us to specific passages of Bell's work? are the
interviews published in her book? is Bell an academic? There was a woman
photographer not to long ago who went into the streets of some larger
European city to do a photojournalism stint on prostitution. If i can find
any particulars i'll pass them along. It was extremely interesting - both in
the photographers treatment of the women (compositionally) and for the
"real" events of the pictures themselves.


Anyway- I'm grateful to be reminded about ee 
>cummings.  I must read him more thoroughly.  His take on like sounds so 
>refreshing after so much "caca"demia.- shelley
>


Hmmmmm!

sharon
ss