sexuality
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No matter how fervently we shout, judge, or legislate, children’s bodies will still have been affected by all the chemicals to which they were subjected.
Children deserve care that helps their bodies match their brains … especially since our cavalier treatment of these children’s environment has probably helped cause the mismatch.
Andrew Solomon, androgens, biological sex, chemical exposure, chromosomal sex, David Cole, David French, developmental biology, discrimination, endocrine disrupting chemicals, endocrine disruptors, exposure to endocrine disruptors, Far from the Tree, fetal exposure, gender, gender affirming care, gender affirming care ban, gender legislation, health, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy, hormones, HRT, intersex, Jim Sinclair, legislation, lifestyle, medical care for minors, parental rights, patient rights, Performance All The Way Down, poetry, puberty blockers, restricting medical care, Richard Prum, Ross Gay, sex determination, sexuality, SRY, Supreme Court, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Tennessee, testosterone, Thank You, transgender, transphobic legislation, urgency of medical care, wellness
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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 bad penis puns.
Modern English is built on a foundation of The King James Bible and William Shakespeare – the former, plagiarized from a person we burned on the stake for his efforts; the latter, Lord Regent of Bad Penis Puns, as though his very name compelled him: Willy-I-Am Shake-Spear, Billy Wagcock, old I am a dick now…
bad puns, Barbara Hamby, capon, Christopher Logue, competition, consensual nonmonogamy, cooperation, education, Emily Wilson, Entitled, etymology, Eugenia Cheng, fornicate, gender, history of English, humor, hysteria, James Joyce, jealousy, Joyce, Kate Manne, Mansplaining, Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, men, mythology, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, patriarchy, Penelope's Lament, penis, penis puns, poetry, polyamorous, polyamory, puns, scortatory, sex, sexuality, Shakespeare, slang, teaching, Telemachus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses, vagina, vulgar slang, War Music, women, X+Y
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On sexuality and freedom of choice.
If men were more helpful, we might not need to intimidate women with ghost stories.
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On sex work and demand.
We could end sex work by pushing back against demand … but we need to help women feel less demand for money, not criminalize men’s demand for sex.
anti-prostitution feminists, anti-prostitution movement, Ayurvedic massage, border patrol, border policing, brothel-keeping laws, colonial legacy, colonialism, criminal justice, criminalization, criminalized transactions, decriminalized prostitution, demand, dismissive library listing, economics of criminalized transactions, elastic versus inelastic demand, feminism, feminist theory, GBI, global capitalism, global wealth tax, guaranteed basic income, human migration, human rights, human trafficking, immigration, immigration control, immigration enforcement, immigration policy, injustice, judges, Juno Mac, legislating morality, library listing, massage, massage therapists, massage therapy, misogyny, Molly Smith, Nordic model, objectification, objectification of women, policing, policing women, prohibition, prosecutors, prostitution, racism, racist enforcement, racist policing, Revolting Prostitutes, selectively enforced laws, sex, sex work, sex workers, sex workers rights, sexuality, Sweden, trafficking, undocumented immigration, undocumented migrants, War on Drugs, wealth tax, work, workers rights
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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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On food and willing sacrifice.
Perhaps nothing really wants to be eaten, but in our world, nothing can survive without sacrifice from its parts.
Agni, apoptosis, autotrophs, cancer, consumption, David Shulman, ejaculate, ejaculation, Fire, food, fruit, Ganges, Genesis, gestation, gift, gift economics, God, heterotrophs, Hindu mythology, Hinduism, immolation, King James, libertarian, libertarianism, masturbation, mythology, Onan, Onanism, paterogenesis, reproduction, Robert Goldman, sacrifice, Sally Sutherland Goldman, Sati, semen, sexuality, Shiva, Sita, suicide, tragedy of the commons, unilateral reproduction, Valmiki, Vedic mythology
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On sexuality: dolphins.
Where ambiguity isn’t safe, people can be only portions of themselves.
AB, An Aquarium, Aryan Brotherhood, bisexual, CAConrad, criminal justice, desire, dolphin, dolphin sex, dolphins, Enkidu, gay, Gilgamesh, homophobia, homosexuality, human sexuality, identity, internet, jail poetry, Jeffrey Yang, poem, poetry, punishment, Queer, racism, Roman soldiers, samurai, sexual identity, sexuality, sexuality in jail, sexuality in prison, Spencer Reece, teaching in jail, The Road to Emmaus, While Standing in Line for Death, white supremacy
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On the future of sex (& Emily Witt’s ‘Future Sex’).
Do-it-yourself, artistic, activist, maker culture … or sexual experimentation & psychedelic drugs? I know which future I’d prefer.
Breakfast of Champions, Burning Man, desensitization, Emily Witt, erotic art, extramarital daliance with consent, feminism, future sex, Gerewol, human evolution, human planet, hyperbolic optimism, James Joyce, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Cacho, penis bone, polyamory, porn culture, pornography, responsible hedonism, Rodin, sexuality, Slavery Inc, Ulysses
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