Sex
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview with Lisa Carver
I first heard of Lisa Carver in the late 1980s, when we were both about 19 or 20. Performing under the name Lisa Suckdog in shows that involved screeching, screaming, pissing, and violence, she was often spoken of in the same…
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By the Time You’ve Seen It, It’s Too Late
Our best shot at understanding the foundation of obscenity law is through watching Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror film, The Evil Dead. In it, a group of (who else?) students stay (where else?) at a cabin in the woods. Amidst the…
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Candid Convo with Edmund White
Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it takes just as much explaining as being gay. All etiological…
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Wet Matches
I was waiting for her. I’d found the only room I could afford near the Prado in a pension that was being run as a transvestite brothel.
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Depressing Sex: An Essay in Pictures
Artist Jason Novak brings us his tale “Depressing Sex: An essay in pictures.” Enjoy:
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Ending Violence Against Sex Workers
This past Saturday, December 17th marked the 9th year of the annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. SF Bay Guardian looks back at the history of the San Francisco born tradition. “It’s become a high holy day…
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On Persecuting Porn Performers
“We don’t know why porn stars should not teach children, why it’s OK to watch porn but not be in it, why we should have to hide our involvement in pornography, or why we should be ashamed of it. These…
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An Open Love Letter to Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
The New York Times recently ran an article about an Egyptian blogger named Aliaa Magda Elmahdy who posted a naked photo of herself on her blog, to the distress and disgust of her fellow Egyptians (liberals and conservatives alike).
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Rethinking Sex Ed
“In its breadth, depth and frank embrace of sexuality as, what Vernacchio calls, a ‘force for good’ — even for teenagers — this sex-ed class may well be the only one of its kind in the United States.” A NY…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #14: Phoenix Rising, An Interview with Nadia Payne
In 2010, in New Orleans, thousands of Saints fans danced wildly in the streets in black and gold jerseys and ribbons, blowing horns and smacking tambourines. I commuted from LA to New Orleans to dance at Penthouse Club during the…
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Jaclyn Friedman Interview
Yes Means Yes has a conversation with Jaclyn Friedman about What You Really Really Want: A Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex And Safety. Topics include the book’s writing exercises, flexisexuality, fetishization and communication, and parenting. “…You can’t become free…
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The Rumpus Interview with Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Samhita Mukhopadhyay discusses finding her voice through blogging, writing like an orphan, and love as social change