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About
Nefarious Ballerina is a theme-based
publication, centered around, for lack of a
better word, erotica. This sounds easy enough,
but to do it well is the hard part. We are
interested in the intelligently erotic. What does
that mean? Well, it's what you say and how
you say it that's important, it's about sex but it's
also about feelings and morality. It's the fire that
burns in our heads and hearts as well as our
loins. It's more about what goes on above the
waist than below it. It's about the animal in us
that makes us human and how much we've
evolved as a species -- and how much we've
stayed the same.
Lately I've discovered that we're looking for so
much more, more layers of meaning, and
searching for a greater context...sensual, but
also historical, spiritual, mythical, psychic...all
these other parts of our being that are likewise
looking to be satisfied. Above all we're looking
for talent and an appreciation of how your
particular piece of writing or artwork becomes
part of the larger discourse of human
experience. Take me to the second circle of hell
and back again...
Anyway, if you've read this far you've done a
great deal already. To further get a feel for what
we like, read our magazine! If you're really
stumped, check out the editor's musings...it's a
secret hatch you can access by clicking on the
logo masthead. Maybe that'll help narrow it
down. Thanks!
-Gordon Purkis, editor
publication, centered around, for lack of a
better word, erotica. This sounds easy enough,
but to do it well is the hard part. We are
interested in the intelligently erotic. What does
that mean? Well, it's what you say and how
you say it that's important, it's about sex but it's
also about feelings and morality. It's the fire that
burns in our heads and hearts as well as our
loins. It's more about what goes on above the
waist than below it. It's about the animal in us
that makes us human and how much we've
evolved as a species -- and how much we've
stayed the same.
Lately I've discovered that we're looking for so
much more, more layers of meaning, and
searching for a greater context...sensual, but
also historical, spiritual, mythical, psychic...all
these other parts of our being that are likewise
looking to be satisfied. Above all we're looking
for talent and an appreciation of how your
particular piece of writing or artwork becomes
part of the larger discourse of human
experience. Take me to the second circle of hell
and back again...
Anyway, if you've read this far you've done a
great deal already. To further get a feel for what
we like, read our magazine! If you're really
stumped, check out the editor's musings...it's a
secret hatch you can access by clicking on the
logo masthead. Maybe that'll help narrow it
down. Thanks!
-Gordon Purkis, editor
Poetry & Art of the Intelligently Erotic
