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The Role of Disgust in Contemporary Queer Female Films
Lesbian films focusing on “grossness” is a misguided attempt to combat hypersexualization.
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Dirty Minds: The Evolution—and Queering—of Sex-Advice Columns
Examining the cultural relevance of sex columns challenges us to question the speed at which we consume others’ sex lives, in all their intimacy and vulnerability, online.
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STI Stigma in Progress: How Jameela Jamil Failed Feminists with HPV
The “feminist-in-progress we all need” is no stranger to criticism.
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Very Online: Social Media Censorship is Suffocating the Sex Tech Revolution
Despite censorship, sex tech isn’t going anywhere any time soon.
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Father Knows Nothing: Purity Culture Stunts the Sexual Growth of Black Girls
The concept of virginity derives from white-evangelical, patriarchal notions that have been used to control and regulate the bodies of women.
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Popaganda: Let’s Talk about (Talking About) Sex
In the midst of the #MeToo movement, it’s clear that we’ve all still got a lot of work left to do to change the conversations we’re having around desire and sexuality.
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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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