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Life, relationships, and dating as a free agent. How to Have Lesbian Sex For the First Time: NSFW Sunday Special. Warning: Usually when we say “NSFW” we still guarantee you no actual nipples or vadge in your face (mostly this is because we fantasize about getting advertisers one day).

How to Have Lesbian Sex For the First Time: NSFW Sunday Special

Today we really mean it, there are actual vaginas in this post. Beware! Lacigreen. The-Clitoris.com: Dedicated to Female Sexual Pleasure and Health. Rescripting sex. Life has scripts.

Rescripting sex.

Little socially-agreed plays that we enact rather than trying to figure out all our interactions from scratch every time. Many of them are very simple. There's the script you follow when you're checking out at a store ("have a nice day"), the script for talking to someone who's sad ("I'm so sorry"), and of course the script for talking to a dog ("WHOOZAGOODBOY"). On “Liberated Sex” and Other Myths. Strip clubs are not sexist, shaming women for expressing their sexuality is. 7 Ways to Create a Sex-Positive Critique of Porn. One of the most common responses to the anti-porn critiques of pornography is that they’re sex-negative and all too often, that ends up creating a “no we’re not/yes you are” argument.

7 Ways to Create a Sex-Positive Critique of Porn

And yet, whenever I read the anti-porn side of things, I’m struck by how often sex-negativity is woven into their claims, although in all fairness, that’s not always the case. I couldn’t figure out exactly what it was that bothered me by the way that Gail Dines keeps talking about gagfactor.com, a website that focuses on men facefucking women. » Towards my personal Sex-Positive Feminist 101 Clarisse Thorn. There’s an aphorism from the early 1900s literary critic André Maurois: “The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but to know it.”

» Towards my personal Sex-Positive Feminist 101 Clarisse Thorn

Even though I identify as an activist and genuinely want to make a real impact on the world based on my beliefs … I often think that much of my blogging has been more an attempt to figure out what I believe, than to tell people what I believe. And sometimes, I fall into the trap of wanting to be consistent more than I want to understand what I really believe — or more than I want to empathize with other people — or more than I want to be correct. Sex is not the enemy. Sex + Relationships. Role/Reboot regular contributor Hugo Schwyzer is a male feminist writer and professor of gender studies living in Los Angeles; he’s also the Sex + Relationships editor at The Good Men Project.

Sex + Relationships

He has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until he got clean and sober and turned his life around, beginning in 1998. I first encountered Hugo on the internet a couple years ago, and although we’ve got some serious disagreements, we’ve always liked talking to each other.

The Female Orgasm: How it Works. It's the only thing that feels better than diving into a cool lake on a sweltering day, biting into a juicy cheeseburger when you're starving, or even getting your wallet back after losing it on vacation abroad.

The Female Orgasm: How it Works

An orgasm is that good. Which is why it bites that it doesn't happen more often. According to several major surveys, only 25 percent of women always climax during sex with a partner.