March 07, 2004
Marty Beckerman
At the age of 13, I was playing D&D and sculpting stuff from my ear wax. Marty Beckerman tells me that now kids at that age are going down on each other.
Marty Beckerman grew up in the suburbs of Anchorage, Alaska (do they even have suburbs?). With inspiration from the likes of Dave Barry, Hunter S. Thompson and Woody Allen, he got a job writing at the Anchorage Daily News (is there news there daily?), before doing as I did and self-publishing his first book, "Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist's Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity".
This impressive first effort earned Beckerman recognition that led to assignments for the New York Press and work with disinformation. He even grabbed a 2003 interview with his icon Thompson for "Ain't it Cool News."
Beckerman's editor at the New York Press got him connected with the good people at MTV Books and because of that now comes "Generation S.L.U.T." (this where you can find those tales of the horny pre-teens and experimental elementary school kids.).
"S.L.U.T." is Marty's acronym for Sexually Liberated Urban Teens, and in this blend of fact and fiction, the now 20-year-old author characterizes his view of his generation as hypersexual, emotionally vacant, and disturbingly tolerant of abuse.
As Marty nears his final collegiate days, he took a stab at my five questions:
You are published by MTV Books. Isn't MTV Books an oxymoron?
The publishing division is really just Simon & Schuster, but it's all owned by Viacom, so they slap the MTV logo on there and teenagers flock to whatever they're selling. Fortunately, MTV Books produces some pretty high-quality novels, especially Stephen Chbosky's "Perks of Being a Wallflower." Am I defending MTV? No. Am I destroying the system from the inside? No comment.
I am way into those College Party porn sites on the web. Does that stuff really happen (Please tell me yes)?
Sure. What's most interesting though is how the typical anonymous, emotionless college sex scene has trickled down to junior high and elementary schools across the nation. I'm not anti-sex at all, but the book is about a generation raised on the principle of self-gratification over all other values. It also has a lot of great blowjob scenes, so be sure to read it alone, under the sheets, with your favorite pet.
So are you getting unemotionally laid every day?
I've got a girlfriend, so I'm getting my dick emotionally sucked every day.
So what does the normal horny 20-something think of President W(easel)?
The Wall Street Journal did a survey that showed 60 percent of teens were behind the Iraq War. On the other hand, a UCLA study shows that whereas 50 percent of college students were "interested" in politics in the late 1960s, now that number is less than 25 percent. So figure that one out -- personally, I'm a libertarian, so I strongly dislike Bush even though I'm conservative. As P.J. O'Rourke puts it, "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
You have been called the "Lenny Bruce" of your generation. Are you afraid he is gonna come back and haunt your ass?
A couple reviewers referred to my style as Bruce-like, which is a real honor. He's not exactly one of my idols, but he's definitely important for free speech in America. Of course, he was great because he railed against prudish conservatives *and* brainwashed liberals. I'm not an anti-sex Puritan or anything, but I'm also not some idiot hipster-cum-socialist. I'd much rather cum on hip society instead. They better swallow.
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