Zed 绳

Zed 绳

@zedsheng.com

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@youngdomnyc.bsky.social and I have been talking about a rope study space for masc-presenting and male bodies. The first session is on 9 Feb (Mon) - from 7 to 10pm. This isn't for absolute beginners, you should have some basic knowledge of rope safety, consent, and single-column tie. See you there!

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✨🤸✨🤸✨ " I want a world where friendship is appreciated as a form of romance" From Alok Vaid-Menon's "Frienship is romance" 📸 @photobydot with @toolboi 🥰

Linda Williams - Rest in peace, in power, in pleasure. "Williams reminds us that what makes hardcore pornography unique is that, despite the artificiality of performance, the moment of penetration - the “money shot” - remains a moment of carnal truth. A cinéma vérité. An indexical representation."

zedsheng.substack.comMeditation on MediationReflections on my final shoot with Himeros.tv - exploring the cinematic language of video games, the performance of queer pleasure, and the friction of rope bondage.

Posted a lengthy two-part piece titled 'Beyond Virtuosity' on my Substack, consisting of reflections on a performance at the Tom of Finland Arts and Culture Festival in LA with @oatmontien.bsky.social and my experience of NARiX in Austin, Texas. ❤️ zedsheng.substack.com

zedsheng.substack.comZed’s Substack | Zed Sheng | SubstackThoughts on gay sex, sex work, and gay pornography from an auto-ethnographic perspective. Click to read Zed’s Substack, by Zed Sheng, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Both parts negotiate with my relationship with rope bondage, performances, racial signification and virtuosity. Part I includes reflections on WKW's Happy Together, Oat's artistic practice, the process of conceptualizing the performance, my fraught relationship and experience with performing rope.

Part II includes a recollection of my experience at NARiX, critical engagement with Avgi Saketepoulou's concepts of exigent sadism and limit consent, reflections on objectification and the provocation of hunger. The desire for an experience of a state of overwhelm.

SCMS conference acceptance results are out! This will be my 1st time @ the conference, and hope to connect with Adult Film and Media / Porn Studies folks while I am there. I'm presenting a reworked version of a paper I first presented at AAAS last year on objecthood and race in Kink's Club Dragon.