Acker Politics

Politics

Sometimes, the skin comes off in sex. The people merge, skinless. The body loses its boundaries. We are in these separate bodies; and then, with someone and not with someone else, the skin dissolves altogether; and what touches is unspeakably, grotesquely visceral, not inside language or

conceptualization, not inside time; raw, blood and fat and muscle and bone, unmediated by form or formal limits. There is no physical distance, no self-consciousness, nothing withdrawn or private or alienated, no existence outside physical touch. The skin collapses as a boundary.

– Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless