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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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If You Mold It, They Will Come: How Gosnell Duncan’s Devices Changed the Feminist Sex-Toy Game Forever
It’s hard to imagine that sex toys were once controversial within the feminist movement.
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Plastic Pleasure: Hallie Lieberman On the Liberating Future of Sex Toys
Acceptance of sex toys is not necessarily an acceptance of women’s masturbation.
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You Equals You: Who Benefits from Being Undetectable?
Undetectability isn’t a form of protection in a world where men still hold immeasurable power.
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Pleasureless Principle: Who Gets to Decide What Your Anatomy Is Capable Of?
The clinical side of the gender-confirmation surgery process is centered around resolving visual dysphoria.
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Red Handed: Kristen R. Ghodsee on Sex and Socialism
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism highlights the stories of feminists and socialists who worked to make women’s lives better under socialism, while pointing to ways we can adapt their lessons for the future.
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No Shame Monster: “Big Mouth” Sweetens the Bitter Pill of Puberty
In the past, stories of adolescent sexuality and desire on television were often only focused on boys—with girls as a mystery or a conquest. Big Mouth evens up the score.
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Popaganda: Queering Virginity
On her Netflix one-woman show, Nanette, Hannah Gadsby opines, “There’s only ever been two options for a little girl to grow up into: virgin or whore…. And I don’t fit neatly into either of those categories. Virgin or whore? I mean, on a technicality, I’d get virgin.” Virginity is a weird, nebulous... Read more »
Doing It Like Men: Did “Sex and the City” Really Revolutionize Sex On TV?
Having sex and liking it was the one thing that Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda had in common.
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Raw, Real, and Uncut: Cupcakke is Rap’s Sex-Positive Superstar
It’s possible to be Christian, sexually freaky, emotionally intelligent, moody, and political at the same time.
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