From sex workers to women who use birth control or just, you know, anyone at all on the feminine spectrum, no one is safe from the slings and arrows of the S-word. Our weekly (and sometimes monthly) “slut roundup” is a snapshot of recent news items where the term has popped up, from stories on slut-shaming […]
In a recent article for Vanity Fair — which basically reads like a self-pitying search for the validation of monogamy in the modern era — the writer posits that hook up culture is an empty land filled with rapid hook ups and bad sex. While modern technology has given many of us the means to have rapid fire casual […]
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It’s a thing that makes you answer the phone when you see an ex-love’s name pop up, and you meet that person again remembering all the reasons why you stopped talking in the first place. It makes you long for certain fashions or styles that you remember being so attractive and […]
My friend and I were sitting in a café talking about sex. The topic of the day: women who have never had orgasms. My friend had known a few. “The thing is, none of them even masturbate,” she said. “Maybe they are ashamed,” I said, “People will still tell you that masturbation is shameful. I […]
Last week, a draft proposal by Amnesty International, which called for the global decriminalization of sex work, leaked. It was met with immediate opposition by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, in a letter signed by many celebrities and public figures, including Lena Dunham, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and, perhaps most disturbing, Gloria Steinem. CATW […]
When I was a young girl, I had a hard time understanding the dynamics between my female peers and the way they treated each other. For one, I can’t recall ever feeling incredibly “girlish” — at least not in the way it seemed like most other girls did. I always felt awkward and out of […]
As a female music lover, few things are worse than being called a “fan girl.” I know, because I once had my boobs signed by Buckcherry and stole a water bottle from Motley Crue’s dressing room, so, naturally, the label stuck pretty early in my teens. Although I have since swapped most of that behavior for writing about and sometimes making […]
Promiscuity implies a plurality of sexuality, but what exactly does that mean? People can refer to others as promiscuous, slutty, a player, et cetera, but what are society’s precise parameters for qualification? I think if we can hash this out, we can help demystify some of the language and bad attitudes around sexuality and sleeping […]
From sex workers to women who use birth control or just, you know, anyone at all on the feminine spectrum, no one is safe from the slings and arrows of the S-word. Our weekly “slut roundup” is a snapshot of recent news items where the term has popped up, from stories on slut-shaming and sexist […]
Hey. So, I know we live in an era where people are constantly outing each others’ privileges: male privilege, white privilege, ableist privilege, etc. To me, these things are pretty obvious. Being a man, being white, being physically able are all objective qualities that can be quantified and demarcated. It’s easy to identify who the […]
