Written by Rachel, a member of the world’s most famous threesome. (The Biblical figures and sisters Rachel and Leah shared a husband – Jacob – and an interesting if complicated relationship.) Rachel is a first-time Jewrotica writer.
It starts as a fantasy.
We’re nine hours into what will be a 12-hour epic journey across the country, driving to a beachfront rental where we will be the only minorities in a fifty-mile radius.
He motions to a runner on the side of the one-lane road, which is crawling with SUVs bedecked with the flotsam and jetsam of outdoorsy families on vacation: bike racks, surfboards, kayaks, rooftop pods. “Elephant,” he says.
Elephants and Aardvarks started as a joke: a game in which we scoped out hotasses of either gender in order to assess each other’s taste. Now, we take it seriously, amazed at how different our preferences are. We laugh about how neither of us would ever catch the other’s eye in a street game like this. That’s the beauty of the game: it’s unbelievably shallow, and allows for the fact that objective good looks don’t necessarily translate into attraction. It’s hard to say if either of us is conventionally attractive–our game illustrates the wide swathes of meaning in the term–but it also doesn’t matter. We are attractive to each other.
I came to the relationship less experienced. Or: my experience was wide and shallow, whereas his was focused and deep. His longest relationship had lasted four years, mine for two fractious months. He could remember his “number” off the top of his head; I had to scan a half-forgotten registry of drunken hookups to arrive at some approximation of mine. Neither of us was looking for anything serious when we met, but for once, my sexual misadventures had landed me in that scary place where The Feelings lived. And The Feelings were telling me that I loved this man, and he loved me back. It was a riotous, confusing place to be.
We had recently dug ourselves out of a pit of sexual frustration, brought on by a month-long yeast infection (seriously) and the uncertainty of our future. He was Serious About Us; I am perennially unsure–a legacy bequeathed as much by twelve years of ideologically unsatisfying Orthodox education as by being in my mid-twenties. In the past few years, I had ping-ponged from self-righteous contumacy to apathy to a nebulous rapprochement between what I wanted and what I was told to do. That summer, I was practicing the art of Not Giving a Fuck.
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You may not tell your mom that you’re going to a live Jewrotica reading (or whatever clever name you will dub these events) but you will tell your friends. However, both would be jealous if they find out that they missed it. I think it will only be a matter of time before Jewrotica helps us reclaim the term “Dirty Jew” the way rap music has done for “The ‘N’ Word.” I know I am now proud to be a Dirty Jew!
I’m Heshy Fried from Frum Satire and I am very, very frum. And I completely support Jewrotica – it’s doing a service to the frum community. We need some sort of kosher sexual education. Jewrotica even has a system that allows frum filters to filter out certain things to make it PG for us. It’s mamish Torah. It’s like The Little Midrash Says for sex.
The Jewrotica event “Evening of Jewrotica: Bedside Reading” was awesome. As Master of Confessions, I got to read the deepest, darkest secrets of people in the room out loud… It was scintillating, titillating, and – yes – even educational!
I attended and participated in last month’s Jewrotica event. The engaging performers and Ayo, our inviting host, inspired the audience to feel like one big community. What a great way to inspire our community to embrace sex as a beautiful thing that can be fun, exciting, sacred, sensual, ridiculous, scary and everything in between!
Such an amazing experience! The Sarah Lawrence Jewrotica workshop was more than I could have ever expected – a comfortable, safe, sultry environment where participants clearly felt good about sharing or listening to each other’s intimate experiences and relating them to sexy stories from the Torah. From the moment the workshop began, Ayo had a sweet presence that was kinetic and spread around the room; her storytelling abilities had everyone enraptured and made the conversation topics relata… Read more
At Jewrotica’s Evening of Bedside Readings, students declaimed monologues on sexual encounters that had a Jewish twist. At Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the speakers pushed their own boundaries by performing a range of explicit narratives that challenged how the audience thought of the relationship to Judaism and sex. During the speakers’ preparation, the arguments about which narratives would be appropriate forced students to take a stand and voice their opinion on their own beliefs about Judaism an… Read more
My opinion on Jewrotica is: It’s sexy. It’s awesome. It’s Judaism to the next level. It’s what we should all be getting into!
Jewrotica is awesome. It expands the mind and for people who were raised with narrow views on sexuality. Whether you are Jewish or not, or in different sects of Judaism like Orthodox, Conservative or Reform, no matter what your background or where you’re from, Jewrotica gets you to see Judaism and how it relates to sexuality in new ways. I really appreciate Ayo being here and helping us learn different ways to connect with our sexuality.
Learning about sex and what’s right and wrong when it comes to sex from a Biblical standpoint was an eye opening experience. I completely enjoyed it and think something like this could be a very cool thing to bring to even high school aged Jewish youth groups.
The people behind Jewrotica are quite quality! I have confidence that any project these folks take on will be equally quality.
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