More than 40 percent of high school-aged girls in England report being coerced into sex. [The Guardian] A memo to Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions: Judges who disagree with you aren’t “activist” judges. [Vox] A new study shows that there are long-term health benefits for LGBT youth who come out during high school. [Medical News Today] […]
Today I’m going to fulfill a promise I made quite a while ago, and talk about what a consent culture would look like. A consent culture is one in which the prevailing narrative of sex — in fact, of human interaction — is centered around mutual consent. It is a culture with an abhorrence of forcing anyone […]
A study has found that in situations of sexual aggression at bars, most attackers are very clear on the fact that their victims are not consenting. The results made obvious what so many already know: despite claims of misperception, in most cases it is very clear that the attacker’s advances are unwanted by victims. Many attackers purposely seek out […]
New York writer Rebecca Traister made a really good point in her recent feature for the magazine’s Sex On Campus issue: Consensual sex can be bad too, but feminism often fails to address that point. It’s not that feminist ladies aren’t discussing sex outside of the realm of consent or rape culture, but it does seem that […]
Recently, I’ve been talking to people in the BDSM community about the sexual assault allegations made against porn star James Deen by a dozen women late last year, and noticed that a number of the men I spoke with had a look of nervousness flash across their face when the subject came up. So, I started […]
Mind-blowing sex resulting in an eye-rolling orgasm can change your life, literally. However, it’s not something that happens with just a bit of foreplay and a few thrusts. Often, it’s the events leading to the act that turns you on more than the deed itself. Whether you’re in a long-term, committed relationship, or you want […]
The media was obsessing over Prince Harry’s relationship with former actress Meghan Markle, especially when they announced their engagement and got married on May 19, 2018. The fact is that it wouldn’t have happened if Meghan didn’t impress the Queen. Two months before the wedding day, Queen Elizabeth gave formal consent for their marriage, and […]
Amnesty International is saying that an Iranian bill restricting the availability of contraception and abortions in order to boost the country’s population is effectively going to turn Iranian women into “baby-making machines.” [RawStory] Read a new essay from Toni Morrison about how to learn from failure. [National Endowment for the Arts] This tea-related analogy for […]
Hold onto your pearls, pearl-clutchers. Oklahoma’s Tulsa School District has just announced plans to implement an unprecedented sex education policy. Cities like Boston, NYC, San Francisco and Los Angeles are already teaching comprehensive, medically accurate, LGBTQ-inclusive sex education to public school students. One by one, American cities are announcing a move away from abstinence-only curriculum or worse, […]
