a sex thinktank
by Melissa Brooks
Like so many celebrities before her, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting has been making headlines for disavowing feminism. To recap, this is what she said when asked if she considered herself a feminist during a recent interview with Redbook Magazine:Continue Reading
From the “sex wars” of the 1980s to today, feminism (as a multi-faceted and -faced movement with nearly as many iterations as there are practitioners, which is yet expected to comprise itself into one monolithic ideology) has, as a whole, grappled and often floundered with issues of sexuality and its representations in mass media.Continue Reading
by Elizabeth LeFay
She wanted that feeling, that one just before she came, that one, where it spreads across your whole pelvis and if you catch it just right, if you inhale just right and grab it in your breath you can carry that feeling, that orgasm brewing, that storm of electrical impulse up your stomach and into your lungs and down your legs into your toes, and that, that full fire spread, that was what she wanted.Continue Reading
by Courtney Morgan
Because I am white.
Because my son is black.Continue Reading
by Loie MerrittContinue Reading
by Fei Cai
Most of us have been there as teenagers.
Wearing a backless johnny, sitting on the way-too-high exam table, and trying not to make too much noise on that weird crinkly tissue paper they always put down for “sanitary” reasons. Your doctor or nurse practitioner stares you in the face and asks the dreaded question: “So… are you sexually active?”Continue Reading
by Vanessa Angelica Villarreal
To look at my body and marvel at its size.
I can’t remember a time I’ve ever looked at my body and been pleased.Continue Reading
by Liz McGehee
“Faces, I suppose, are a type of torture
to look like one but never be one”Continue Reading
BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism) has officially left the cultural cellar and entered the bedroom of mainstream America. What with the viral spread of 50 Shades of Grey, Rihanna making it for the masses in S&M and kink student groups popping up on college campuses across the country—what were once considered anti-normative or even deviant forms of sexuality have now become ubiquitous.Continue Reading
A.S. Leena Res is the stage name for Andrew Linares, local Denver performer and musician; his show, Notes from the Collective debuted at The Bakery Arts Warehouse in May.Continue Reading
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