Sex
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #1
Brigitte Aiton, Age 44 New York, New York “How do you deal with the fact that the person you’re with might hate you?” It was the first summer we were together. We were twenty-three years old.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #9: The Refined Tyranny of Mistress Marzanna Katorga
“The early messages in my family were that women are the source of power. They made the household decisions, held the purse strings, and if the woman of the house was not happy, no one was happy.”
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Ex-Nymphet
I’m 18, I’m standing under a spotlight with no clothes on, and the photographer is pointing at my thighs.
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A Trip to Las Vegas: The Adult Entertainment Expo
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” And thank god for that. My back had been killing me since I boarded the plane for Las Vegas and I was…
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A Big Step in France
“France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, from its list of officially recognized mental illnesses.” While the issue is certainly complicated, this is incredible news.
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A Father’s Pain
“The act of verbally expressing pain is a necessary prelude to the collective task of diminishing pain.” – Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain Two weeks before Christmas of last year, my father was diagnosed with cancer.
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Sexually, I’m More of a Denmark: A Highly Subjective Book Review
I’ve been trying to count how many times I’ve penned myself profiles for dating advertisements, and the truth is I can’t. Since my first major relationship ended in May of 1990, I have been so often so completely dateless, and…
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Operation Titstorm
“Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.” That’s right, “Operation Titstorm” was a success, with the Australian Parliament’s…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #8: The Sex and Politics of Antonia Crane
Antonia Crane has worked many jobs in the sex industry. She’s done escort, BDSM, porn, and stripping. She’s also been very engaged with sex worker activism.
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This Dictionary Has Oral Sex In It!
I just learned from Jacket Copy that “Menifee school district in Riverside County has removed the 10th edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary from all school shelves after a parent complained about a student running across “oral sex” in its pages.”…
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The Sexies
Most of the time, the topic of sex makes so many journalists spin moralistic, accusatory or just plain inaccurate. For those who are able to keep their wits about them, there are The Sexies. The Sex Positive Journalism Awards foster…