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Love No Limit: Exploring Sexual Fantasy during the Pandemic
We only have shame about our sexual thoughts or desires because we don’t openly discuss how natural and human they are.
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“Too Hot to Handle” Is a Conservative Nightmare of a Reality Dating Show
The premise is simple: for the duration of the season, no one can have sex.
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Come as You Are: Orgasms Prioritize Pleasure in the Midst of Pain
Orgasms can be restorative for pelvic-pain patients because orgasming helps them experience a “healing trust” that reconnects them with their need for sexual pleasure and intimacy.
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Sex Re-Education: Netflix Offers a New Spin on Teen Virginity
Though teen dramas claim to empower girls, toxic patterns prevent their characters from fulfilling their potential.
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The Final Frontier: With “Sex Education,” Netflix Expands the Pleasure Discourse
The centralizing of pleasure is what makes Sex Education shine.
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Paranormal Boyfriends, Purity Myths, and Practical Virgins: The Literature of Losing It
Being abstinent in these books is not empowering for female characters; instead, it’s a consequence of decisions enforced by their male counterparts.
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“Boys & Sex” is Groundbreaking, But Leaves Gaps for Queer Boys
Boys & Sex is a timely and relevant read in our current political and cultural context.
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My Vagina Forced Me to Give up Nonmonogamy
I loved having multiple loves, but I hated being at the mercy of a stubborn vagina.
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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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