Peter Sotos
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Kee MacFarlane 2 exemplares
Public: The Collected Peter Sotos, Volume 2 1 exemplar
Home 1 exemplar
Kept the Collected Peter Sotos, Volume 4 1 exemplar
Buyer's Market 1 exemplar
Missed. Better Still. 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1960-04-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Educação
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Peter Sotos (born 1960?) is a Chicago-born writer who has contributed an unprecedented examination of the peculiar motivations of sadistic sexual criminals. His works are often cited as conveying an uncanny understanding of myriad aspects of pornography. Most of his writings have focused on sexually violent pornography, particularly of that involving children. His writings are also considered by many to be social criticism often commenting on the hypocritical way media handles these issues.
In 1984, while attending The Art Institute of Chicago, Sotos began producing a self-published newsletter or “fanzine” named Pure, notable as the first zine dedicated to serial killer lore. Much of the text and pictures in Pure were photocopied images from major newspapers and other print media. Sotos also used a photocopy from a magazine of child pornography as the cover of issue#2 of Pure. In 1986 this cover led to his arrest and charges of obscenity and possession of child pornography. The charges of obscenity were dropped, but Sotos eventually pled guilty to the possession charge and received a suspended sentence. Sotos was the first person in the United States ever to be charged for owning child pornography.
Sotos’ writings explore sadistic and pedophilic sexual impulses in their many, often hidden, guises. Often using first person narratives, his prose takes on the point of view of the sexual predator. Despite his early legal troubles, and the seemingly fatal stigma of falsely being labeled a pedophile, Sotos continues to garner support for his ideas and literary output.
He was until 2003 a seminal member of the industrial noise band Whitehouse.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 307
- Popularidade
- #76,700
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 10
- ISBN
- 28
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 5
The names he lingers on here, in relation to their images and stories, are particularly devastating and/or prurient (again, it's hard to pull apart here). Skyler Kauffmann being raped and buried alive, or the borderline urban legend of Thea Pumbroek. She only exists in a few grizzly details, and Sotos doesn't even give you those. You have to go hunt that context down. And you make it yours by doing so. By imbibing, in a way, these murdered and hurt lives, and Sotos forces us to do that in a way the news or a press release or muttered sympathy doesn't, a piece of that story becomes "ours."
I was talking with Anita Dalton as I read this book and she pointed out that the title of the book reflects this. It at once a descriptor of victim experience, parental clinging, perpetrator possessiveness, and the ownership Sotos creates for himself, whether it is mournful or caring or pornographic or lurid or something in between or wholly other. All the more, that "mine" is in the mouth of the reader now too. You are included. I am included. Maybe even in some more meaningful way than a hungry reporter or a lurid spectator we are mixed into the experience by reading about it and how it is interpreted. The "mine" lies in the mouth of the parent, the victim, the perpetrator, the writer, and at last the reader.… (mais)