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+ The Feminist Porn Awards, which took place last week, have been criticized for the nomination of a producer with anti-trans hiring practices and for new guidelines requiring high production values. Actress and producer Kitty Stryker, one critic and the organizer of a boycott, said:
“I truly believe in feminist porn as a concept,” Stryker says. “I do not believe that sex on film is inherently anti-feminist — I think we can, and should, do better. But my feminism is intersectional, and therefore my feminist porn must be intersectional as well. I think the FPAs have started an incredibly important conversation, but to maintain relevance, they need to continue to evolve and critique their feminism.”
madison paige via andro adiction
+ In the United Kingdom, the National Union of Teachers has called for making LGBT sexuality- and gender-related education mandatory in schools:
“‘We know that far too many LGBT people are leaving school not having received any information or advice on how to lead healthy or safe lives, which means they are perhaps engaging in risk-taking behaviour – such as unprotected sex,’ Dick says.
‘Stonewall believes schools have a responsibility to ensure young people are getting the information they need to lead healthy lives,” he says. “And having worked with a number of schools over the last eight to ten years, we know one of the best ways to do that is to make sure pupils have access to inclusive PHSE sex and relationships education.'”
Laverne Cox in Allure
+ Meanwhile, in America, medical humanities and bioethics professor Alice Dreger live-tweeted her kid’s basically abstinence-only sex ed class (sample: “Teacher says to me ‘I agree that sex is good in a loving relationship.’ I said it can be plenty terrific without. He looked shocked. Shocked”) and the results are a treat if horrifying ignorance is your ice cream:
“While she tweeted that the curriculum at her kid’s school is “not technically abstinence-only,” the class involved horror stories about sex and drugs, constant claims about the failure rates of various contraceptives, paper “babies” handed out to students and no information about oral or anal sex. One instructor told the class that a “good girl” is one who says “no” to sex — and that’s the only kind of girl you should want to be with, per Dreger’s account.”
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+ At Fusion, Molly Crabapple has an excellent commentary about how police profile and shame sex workers. From the blurb below the video:
“In May 2013, Monica Jones, a student and LGBT activist at Arizona State University, was arrested for “manifesting prostitution.” Monica said she just accepted an undercover officer’s offer of a ride home from her favorite bar. Monica is among the tens of thousands of people arrested every year for prostitution-related offenses. According to the FBI, police arrested over 57,000 people on such charges in 2011. The vast majority were women.”
Marilyn Devotchka via alt and black
+ Straight people finally admit they get bed death too. (The reasons and the solutions fall along the same lines for everyone.)
+ Consent in the context of Alzheimer’s gets interesting.
via lesbian silk
+ Talking straightforwardly about having an STI can make having one less isolating for everyone, as Ella Dawson, diagnosed with genital herpes at age 22, discovered:
“‘I had seen in the flesh what a simple ‘I have herpes’ could do when said fearlessly, without shame,’ she wrote. ‘Because when a real person — a woman you know and respect — casually mentions having herpes, it stops being a punchline and starts being someone’s reality.’ […]
The stigma carries devastating consequences, [Dr. Peter Anthony Leone] said, and obscures factual information about the virus. Patients often seek counseling to manage the guilt or humiliation—and they may have only one or two outbreaks over a lifetime. A 2011 study in the Journal of Health Psychology found several survey respondents with STIs reported feelings like ‘less of a person.'”
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+ Poly dating can get expensive:
“Vicki summed up why poly dating can be a significant expense: ‘I guess being poly, I never stopped dating and don’t intend to—so those expenses that come up when you’re first trying to get to know someone can come up again and again. Though I find when I date men, even poly men, they often fall into traditional gender roles and want to pay. But especially if something’s going to stay casual, at a dating level and not turn into something more entangled, you can be at that expensive going-out stage for a long time. […]
My budget’s usually not that tight, as long as I don’t get ridiculous, but several of my regular partners—my girlfriend, the musician I see regularly—are tighter financially or have more variable finances. Sometimes if I really want to do something, I’ll just treat, but that’s not really emotionally sustainable. It’s much better to do whatever meets everyone’s budget.'”
+ You can learn how to program your vibrator.
+ There is a sex toy that will get you pregnant now I guess.
+ This 250-year-old dildo will make you really appreciate Babeland.
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I came here hoping that the Laverne Cox Allure image would be featured, if not the article itself (which was also sooo great). Thanks for not letting me down, Autostraddle!!
(Also, thanks for all the other beautiful images and interesting think pieces, as always.)
She is so dreamy. And it was really good! I probably should’ve said in the actual post but EVERYONE GO READ IT NOW.
Omg Laverne! Give mortal women a chance! You goddess, you!
Cant remember who I heard the semenette from a few weeks ago but it looks promising tbh. yay intimacy!
I will say “yeah to intimacy”….. especially, the intimacy of who we both truly are inside….. going back to who we were in childhood. Our young years were the birth place of who we are now.