Last week I announced that this September I’ll be giving a lecture at NYU, The Intent to Arouse: A Concise History of Sex, Shame, and the Moving Image. My hope is that this September date will be the first of many through out the next year. Here’s the blurb:

The world is awash in sexualized imagery, but that imagery rarely speaks to or captures the pleasurable reality of sex. Award-winning filmmaker Tony Comstock takes us into the legal and business realities that shape and often warp the sexual imagery we see. Drawing on examples from Hollywood’s history of self-censorship, landmark obscenity cases, and the collision of technology and image-making, Comstock offers an expanded framework for understanding of how what we do and do not see in cinema affects our understanding of our own sexuality

Today I’d like to invite you to click over to TheIntentToArouse.com. I’ll be using it as a proving ground and organizational tool, and I hope it will develop into an expanded version of lecture, a place where things that will only receive curasary mention in a 90 minute format can be delved into more deeply; and where resources and citations will be readily available.

I’d also ask any of you who work in an academic or educational setting – in film studies program or sexual health department – who think there might be a place for this lecture on your campus to please get in touch with me. Just like making films, the researching and writing a lecture is just the beginning. The real work is bring your work to an audience. Any help on that score would be much appreciated!

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