affirmative consent
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On kink, advertising, and climate change.
To save our planet, we need to buy fewer things; how might we still be happy?
ad culture, adventure, advertising, advertising culture, affirmative consent, anti-capitalism, Aronowitz, Bad Sex, Bartolomeo Manfredi, BDSM, buy fewer things, buy less, capitalism, Catherine M Roach, Catherine Roach, Clayton Cubitt, climate change, climate crisis, climate destabilization, climate justice, commercial advertising, connection, consent, consumerism, culture, Cupid Chastised, environmentalism, erotic, erotic art, erotic massage, erotica, Escape Into Meaning, ethical nonmonogamy, ethical polyamory, ethics, Evan Puschak, exploration, fulfillment, global warming, Good Sex, happiness, hedonism, human connection, human sexuality, Hysterical Literature, I'll Read What She's Reading, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Jerry Seinfeld, joy, Justin Gregg, kink, kinky, materialism, morality, Nona Willis Aronowitz, nonmonogamy, normal, normalize, pleasure, Pleasure Activism, polyamory, purchasing, reduce consumerism, reduce consumption, relationships, responsible hedonism, romance, sex, sexual desire, sexual exploration, sexual fulfillment, sexual relationships, sexuality, subverted sexual desire, Toni Bentley
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On consent (again).
To feel free to fully find ourselves, we all need to be respected as autonomous individuals.
adrienne maree brown, affirmative consent, ask first, assault, autonomy, communication, communication during sex, consent, consent culture, consent is mandatory, Consent is sexy, dishonesty, empathy, feminism, feminist, filter bubble, filter bubbles, honesty, Is That Still Consent?, Jenny Kleeman, Katherine Angel, learning, lying, maybe, Melissa Febos, miscommunication, physiological response to pornography, Pleasure Activism, psychological harm, rape, respect, Roseanna Sommers, seduction, self-discovery, self-knowledge, sex, sex research, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, sexual assault, sexual norms, sexuality, technology, tentative, the joy of learning, tomorrow sex will be good again, unwanted touch, what's wrong with the phrase consent is sexy, women's response to pornography, You Were Duped Into Saying Yes
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On consent.
To make a better world, we’ll need to get over our potential embarrassment and make sure that somebody’s “yes” means what we think it does.
affirmative consent, Alarming Rise of Rape Culture, album of the month clubs, ask first, Asking For It, assault, consent, elastic definitions of consent, Eve Rickert, Fatimah Asghar, Franklin Veaux, gender violence, gendered violence, incarceration, jail, jail poetry, justification, Kate Harding, masculinity, morality, More Than Two, no means no, Peggy Orenstein, poetry about gender violence, poetry in jail, positive consent, prearrange consent, rape, rape culture, rationalization, rationalizing rape, reading poetry in jail, sex while sleeping, sexual assault, sexual behavior of college students, sleeping sex, teaching poetry in jail, toxic masculinity, unwanted sex, Veaux and Rickert, violation, violative assault, When Refusing to Twerk Is a Radical Form of Self Love, When Tip Drill Comes on at the Frat Party, why do men rape, why don’t men ask first, yes means yes
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On reading poems from Donika Kelly’s ‘Bestiary’ in jail.
Will poems about lovelorn bowerbirds help men in jail for domestic violence? At least the words are beautiful.
abuse, abusive relationships, affirmative consent, AI, art, assault, Bestiary, Bower, bowerbird, Bruce Weigl, child abuse, Child Beater, consent, CPS, creation, DCS, desire, domestic, domestic violence, Donika Kelly, drinking, Heartbreak, incarceration, jail poetry, Kavanaugh, kindness, love, love poems, mass incarceration, mouse, objectification, poems, poetry, pornography, pre-emptive excuses, relationships, respect, romance, sex education, sexual assault, sexuality, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, That Cat, The Impossible, trauma, violence, What Gay Porn Has Done for Me, writing, writing poetry
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