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Spasms of Truth: “Sex Education” Disrupts Pop Culture’s Silence around Painful Sex
Sex Education opens the door for women living with vaginismus and other conditions to have honest conversations about their symptoms.
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Coexisting Desires: Nola Darling Finally Gets Real with Herself in “She’s Gotta Have It”
Nola Darling understands that trauma porn is a tactic often used to beef up the work and lives of Black women for clicks and scholarships, but it is also demeaning.
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Yes We Can: Gushing Over the Ability to Ejaculate
Instead of teaching women about their bodies and embracing female ejaculation, we’ve prescribed corrective surgeries, pharmaceuticals, and Kegel exercises to fix what’s become misunderstood.
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Singing about Female Masturbation Has Become Cool—but Is It Helping?
Singing about masturbation is, for women artists, still radical.
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Bad Medicine: Big Pharma’s Female Trouble
Pharmaceutical companies want women to worry about their own sexual problems and what pill might treat them.
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A Girl Has Sex: Three Cheers for Arya Stark’s Sex Scene
Given Arya’s recent past, this might be the most wholesome thing she’s done in a while.
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Fleshed Out: What Four Sex-Themed Resorts Taught Me About Consent
The objectification of women permeates almost every aspect of our culture. Can these resorts block out such a pervasive force?
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When Faking It Is a Form of Self-Protection
For every op-ed lamenting the “death of the chase,” there’s a literary work that considers the nuanced realities of female sexual experience.
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Her Neck, Her Back: The Past and Future of Women’s Orgasms Onscreen
Images of female pleasure are threatening because of the link between sex and power and the gender binary that defines men as sexual conquerors and women as their prizes.
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Fumbling toward Ecstasy with a Self-Love Soundtrack
I realized I had been wrong about self-pleasure.
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