By Lori Selke

Lori Selke is the author of The XY Conspiracy (Aqueduct Press) and Lost Girls and Others (Sizzler Editions), and the co-editor of Outlaw Bodies (Future Fire Press). She lives in Oakland, California.

  1. How to Ruin Valentine’s Day, by Shulamith Firestone, Cosmo, and Forbes

    By Lori Selke

    in Beauty

    As excerpted from the work of Shulamith Firestone, and the staff writers of Cosmopolitan and Forbes.

    Don’t buy her the sexual nature of Cleaver’s agonies.  Don’t compliment her on her outfit. Women are the only  ‘love’ objects in our society, so much so that women regard themselves as erotic. Screw the cheesy love songs and candy hearts. Break a few rules and the incest taboo operates to restrain his total

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