Word: zine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frighten the Horses, a self-proclaimed "document of the sexual revolution," is celebrating this Valentine's Day with its first fullcolor glossy cover. Admitting that this step certainly "complicates things," copublishers Mark Pritchard and Cris Gutierrez nevertheless seek to scale up their high-spirited "zine" and its circulation of fiction "as dirty as we can find...
...their attention to its titillating content, haphazardly flipping through the pages, reading out snippets of sexual extremism with a spaced-out kind of disbelief, and were generally quite uncomfortable. "I don't know what to think," admitted one sophomore resident of Adams House, summing up the overwhelming ambivalence this "zine" elicits...
...zine's primary focus on raunchy sex, however, undermines this melodramatic tone. Here, too, the writing is uneven. The first piece is entitled "Stiff" and relates how a college student is overcome with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above the corpse's groin would be "messy with incisions," she appreciates his legs as "muscular and hard as a rock, although rigor mortis was probably more responsible than exercise." Much to her delight, "the penis [was] still intact." While topics such as necrophilia, bestiality, and sadomasochism may sound intriguing, the poorly...
Pritchard and Gutierrez, producing the "zine" from their San Francisco apartment, proudly explain their writing selection by the fact that they have "no taboo subjects." Looking for "truly transgressive and well-written" work, Pritchard and Gutierrez also require that it be genuine, and evidently see no contradiction in their boast, "Our fiction is real." Gutierrez insists that we are repressed in our daily lives, and it is therefore important that these writers can "write their own truth." Thus featured is "Piercing Insights," an expose, complete with eight graphic photos of Nancy Irwin enjoying the experience of having 60 22-gauge...
...accurate reviews share the pocket-sized spaces with graphics approrpriated from Victorian magazines and with offbeat autobiographical bits (like "Out of the Way First Names: A History of People"). Write to P O Box 649, Cambridge, MA 02138; you may be a slightly happier person after reading Tim's zine, which is more than I can say for my own work. See you next year...