Diana J. Torres aka Pornoterrorismo, “Quemarlo Todo,” March 2013 at the Antic Theatre in Barcelona.
Diana J. Torres, working under the name Pornoterrorismo, is a multidisciplinary artist working through/within the genres of poetry, pornography, video, and performance to discuss the emotional, physical, and sexual implications of the body on stage. Her performances range from this one, an exercise in the tragedy of post-porn clowning, to rituals of queer witchcraft, to workshops on how to love and work the human body. The author of “Pucha Potens,” an illustrated non-fiction/poetic book about the female prostate, Diana is also a body activist, and is active in the struggles for queer, trans, and women’s rights.
I first met Diana when I took her practical workshop on female ejaculation at the lesbian bar Punto Gozadera in Mexico City, where she now lives. It was amazing: she showed us diagrams she herself had drawn because most medical diagrams of the female body leave out the prostate. She had us each strip down naked and lay on the floor, our pelvises thrust upwards, while she shone a flashlight and aimed a camera into our vaginas to project ourselves onto the wall, where we learned to see the four points of our ejaculation holes. We watched as she reached up inside herself and, in under a minute, made herself ejaculate into a clear, plastic cup.
Diana is doing such important sexual education work in a deeply Catholic, homophobic country. I’m not totally shocked that the United States blocks her website and hides most of her content when you try to search for her name, but if you search for Pornoterrorismo on Facebook, you’ll be able to see more of her - and, if you’re ever in Mexico City, even register to take one of her workshops.