Sex
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Hysteria Revisited: Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet
The Rumpus Interview with artist Julie Bolene. Julie Bolene’s nudes appear shiny and dead. There are finger bones protruding from hands and bluish white faces.
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So What Book Would You Bang?
“Unbearable Lightness of Being will be really intense and full of infinitely overlapping partners until it all ends and I’m left miserable and questioning every decision I’ve ever made.” Rumpus readers are imagining what sex with their favorite books would…
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“The Last Temptation of Ted”
“I bought drugs and a massage from him, and he masturbated me at the end of it. That’s it.” A profile of reverend Ted Haggard, four years after he was outed by escort Mike Jones. (via @CaitlinRoper)
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“Pussy Fever” Loves “Locker 29”
A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed, who is against sex work, and Antonia Crane who agitates for sex worker rights, about sex work and feminism.
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Funny Women Around the Web: Jenny Hagel
Jenny Hagel, the filmmaker/comdienne who made the Feminist Rapper webseries (see below), released a new short comedy film online this week. “Tech support” is about a woman who falls in love with the girl on the other end of a…
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“Your naked pictures will end up on the internet.”
“We’re so into each other and I just want to tease him a little bit. It’ll be hot. “Wonderful. Your naked pictures will end up on the internet. “Hah, no they won’t, he wouldn’t do that. “Yes, he would, and…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #62: We Are Here to Build the House
Forget the man. Forget the money. It’s your own sweet self with whom you must rendezvous.
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Lavender Panthers 4 EVA
Check out this absolutely insane 1973 Time story about the Lavender Panthers, a gay vigilante group who went around San Fransisco stopping hate crimes. Led by Rev. Ray Broshears, the Lavender Panthers were experts in “judo, karate, Kung Fu or…
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Why Are You a Prostitute?
This is a response for Bedelia, who commented profusely about sex work, house moms, and her experience as a hooker for ten years on an earlier piece I wrote for The Rumpus.
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FUNNY WOMEN #42: The Best-Selling Story of All Time
The five most popular words in best-selling books are (source: Time magazine): 1. man 2. diet 3. house 4. woman 5. sex/sexual
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Jesus Loves Sex Workers
It’s the question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: what WOULD Jesus do about prostitution? Over on Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory profiles former prostitute and Hookers For Jesus rep Annie Lobert who claims to have the answer. [SPOILER ALERT: “God…
