sexuality
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What About Sex-Negative Feminism?
“Sex does not happen in a vacuum immune to outside structural influences,” writes Jillian Horowitz in a piece titled “Unpopular Opinion: I’m A Sex-Negative Feminist.” “[I]n fact, it can (and does) replicate inescapable systems of power and dominance.” “Unpopular opinion”…
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Wright
Susan Wright, activist, writer, and founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, sits down to discuss the recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders updates, and what they mean for the kink community.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: T Cooper
“You know, it’s the first question when someone’s having a baby: is it a boy or a girl? It’s very primitive.”
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Self Evident Truths
Bomblog interviews photographer iO Tillett Wright about her Self Evident Truths endeavor, which gathers individual portraits to document the LGBTQ spectrum across America. “When the message is finally understood that its not about being gay but about being anything other than…
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The Optimism of Being a Dope Fiend
I remember clearly the first time my best friend Chelsea and I decided to play at prostitution.
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Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping with the atrocities she had witnessed as a human rights…
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Evangelical, Pastor, Gay, Out… What Now?
Sometimes around dusk (I was probably six or seven years old), I would look out my bedroom window and see the sky turning orange and purple, and the setting sun turning red like blood, and I was sure the end…
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Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block
I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
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Running on Sexy
Sébastien Tellier recently toured the States, bringing a spacious European balance to “sex music” from this side of the pond, such as the brilliant, raunchy new Peaches album, I Feel Cream (which imeem is streaming for free, thanks to XLR8R).…
