The deficient single woman
Chally is a former Feministe staffer. She writes at Zero at the Bone. I’m really quite troubled by the centring of romantic/sexual relationships at the expense of all other ways of organising lives. Right now, I’m going to explore this in terms of single women being seen as deficient. I’ve seen so many divorced and [...]
...read moreHow can you have sex when you don’t even know what sex is?
Working at Planned Parenthood, I tend to get a lot of questions about sex and sexual health. I’ve met people at parties and had them tell me about their crabs. I’ve had folks I just met at a bar, only half-jokingly, ask about a rash they had in their nether-regions. And I’ve become the resident [...]
...read moreQueer Virginity
Not a story per se, but Miriam over at Feministing has a great post about being queer and the concept of virginity.
...read moreHotel rooms are where all the best sex happens anyways.
To everyone who’s been leaving their stories in the comments, thank you so much. They’re all so different — some are heartbreaking, some are funny, some are blase, and all are definitely worth the read. I know a lot of you have been talking about how inaccurate the idea of virginity is, and how it [...]
...read moreToday, in confusing media messages!
NY Daily News: Being obese can lead to less sex – and poorer sexual health: study Sociological Images: roundup of pro-anorexia t-shirts. (That NY Daily News study raised a whole boatload of issues, like how obese women have a harder time finding partners but obese men don’t, which, you know, hello double standards. Still though, [...]
...read moreI believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure (I do, I do, I do)
It is time, she said upon waking up this morning, to blog about sex at Feministe. I talked about falling in love, falling wildly in love, but I didn’t really talk about sex. Because they’re two different things, obviously, but maybe I was a little bit afraid? I used to blog about sex all the [...]
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