Sex
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Historic STD Posters
“Over the past 100 years, thousands of posters and advertisements have been created to warn or educate the public about STDs. Looking though today’s eyes, many older ones seem scandalous and politically inappropriate. Others are preachy, naive, sexy, scary, and…
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WHERE I WRITE #7: Between Clients
I write between clients. There’s a yellow wall behind me, and fuzzy leopard print pillows on the floor.
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Straight Talk
Poet Alex Dimitrov loves his straight boyfriend. (via @RandallMannPoet, who, it just so happens, is today’s featured poet for our National Poetry Month Project.)
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Save The Eagle
The Eagle Tavern, a decades-old San Francisco gay bar, may be shutdown on April 29th due to a dispute with its landlord. Local residents aren’t going to give up their favorite “alt, leather, punk, working class” gay bar without a…
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Feminism Is The New Saltpeter?
“Gender equality inhibits arousal.” Yikes. I’m not going to link directly, but Psychology Today, in an article called “Why Feminism Is The Anti-Viagra,” goes even further to prove it will say anything to sell magazines and get clicks. Really I…
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Dear Sex Worker Hater
Hello Sex Worker Hater, So, we meet again. You’re a shape shifter and I feel like I see you everywhere I go. I’ve spotted you on police forms for recovered bodies which had two categories: human and non-human.
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Dom-Mom Love
We mentioned the new site Tits and Sass earlier today, and already they are posting great articles, like this conversation between Bettie, a dominatrix, and her mother, a preacher. Bettie’s mother says, “I understand that on some levels I am…
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Tits and Sass
“We come from different backgrounds and locations, work as strippers, porn performers, pro-dommes, prostitutes, and have a love of ripping apart stereotypes. This is our space for calling out pop culture fails, celebrating sex worker culture, and talking shop.” It…
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Sex Toy Presentation At Northwestern
Professor John Michael Bailey at Northwestern conducted an optional sex toy presentation in one of his classes last week. Per the Daily Northwestern, “The … presentation last Monday, attended by about 120 students, featured a naked non-student woman being repeatedly…
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On This Presidents’ Day: A Brief History of Presidential Sex
A special holiday history lesson from The Rumpus: