Welcome back to another cold spring term. ?Nookie with Niko? is taking on a new twist this term. We?d like to introduce you to ?He? Said / ??She? Said. We?re still talking about sex and politics, but from two different perspectives: the sex nerd?s and the lit nerd?s. We encourage the community to submit questions via email or the Record box. No question is too wild or tame.
NK: Last term I ended on the story of my fi rst porn experience. This is number two. My partner, Milo, and I got in touch with Trouble Royale, the creator or nofauxxx.com. After some conversations, we set up our shoot to become Nofauxxx models. To me this couldn?t have gotten any cooler. Nofauxxx was one of the fi rst radical porn sites that focused on the queer community. You can fi nd their mission statement at: http://www.nofauxxx.com/tour/mission.htm
MJ: As the saying goes, sex work is the oldest profession. In ancient Assyria and Babylonia, the followers of Ishtar, a goddess of love and benevolence, were the fi rst examples of holy prostitution. They were courtesan priestesses called ishtaritu that enacted the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage. The highest of these sacred prostitutes, the enitum, granted sovereignty to the King through his ?marriage? to the goddess.