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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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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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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 »
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