Suzanne, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 2:29pm
When I saw a post on livejournal about National Coming Out Day, I realized that even here in my sex-positive, queerluscious, kinktastic office, we hadn't talked about the fact that today was...
Kitty Stryker, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 3:42pm
Ah, the bloom of careless youth. We’ve all seen the after school specials and the popular high school TV shows that warn about accidental teen pregnancy because teenage boys don’t want to use...
Amy Marsh, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:06pm
After the fall of original sin, Adam and Eve wore aprons of fig leaves to cover their naughty bits. In Western art the effect of this biblical story is so pervasive that we accept the convention of...
Suzanne, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 6:34pm
As a person who moves primarily among significantly younger people, and dates exclusively younger people (I’m a Lifestyle Cougar) I sometimes come up against things I simply don’t understand....
Arielle Loren, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 1:36pm
In popular culture, the stereotype of black men continues to resemble the Big Bad Wolf. Imagine a black man. What do you most likely see? He's tall, muscular, uber-masculine, darker in skin...
Kitty Stryker, Friday, September 17, 2010 - 11:44am
As a child, growing up to pagan, feminist, politically-aware parents, I remember hearing this song by Christine Lavin, that gently poked fun at the new, 90's trend in "sensitive new age guys" in a...
Asher Bauer, Monday, September 13, 2010 - 3:15pm
Perhaps it is ironic to celebrate one’s 21st birthday by going to an all-ages punk club. To little straight-edge me, however, it made perfect sense. So it was that we found ourselves (“we” being my...
Barbara North, Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 3:15pm
(Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of sexual violence and unmoderated comments.)
I’m going to walk you through the story of an internet fight about rape, and the flame wars that have...
Suzanne, Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 7:00pm
I heard the song on the radio before I saw the video. I was deeply unnerved when I heard Rihanna's voice singing, "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn. But that's alright because I like the...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 12:00am
“So what do you do?” is a question I get asked a lot at the pub in London. Generally I size the person up and decide how far up the exposure scale I want to go (if you’re curious, from least to...
Kitty Stryker, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 3:37pm
Considering how stigmatized sex workers are, and how harshly the culture at large treats prostitutes, I've found that the stigma against the clients of sex workers is far worse- being outed as a...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 9:00am
Restoration. Sovereignty. I strongly associate these words with sexual healing. But these words also ripple through me today in a special way. Today, July 31st, is Restoration Day in Hawai’i,...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 12:00am
When I got into sex work as an insecure, chunky 18 year old, I wasn’t entirely sure what I thought it would be like.
I had heard things, of course, and seen things- the usual ideas of either...
Sinclair Sexsmith, Sunday, August 1, 2010 - 10:00am
Masculinity is not essential to the recipe of being a dominant sexual partner. And yet, this identity alignment assumption, the assumption that masculinity and dominance go together and are always...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 10:00am
I'm in the Puna district of Hawai'i island—and all night long the neighbors were having noisy sex. Group sex. Lots and lots of sex in the fitful humid night. So here I am, sleep deprived at dawn,...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:34am
Master Sunyata Saraswati has said that Tantra is “not for wimps” and I can certainly agree. My own path has been anything but wimpy. It was precipitated by a spontaneous ten-month long kundalini...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 12:11pm
“Sometime, I wish that instead of Pilgrims a bunch of hula dancing Hawaiians had first stepped on Pilgrim Rock. The moral equation of this nation might have been improved immeasurably.”
That’s a...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 9:09am
First of all, that Galway incident supposedly invoking an 1837 Unlawful Accommodation of Donkeys Act is apparently a hoax. However, I have seen, with my own eyes, photographic evidence of BDSM...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 11:33am
First they make us put on clothes, then they take theirs off!”
I’m talking story with one local guy and I’ve never heard a better summation of the first and most enduring insult inflicted on the...
