Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
+ Queerie Bradshaw writes about how queer feminist porn has changed the way she loves and lives:
“By definition, queer, feminist pornography is the work of activists. Anything that portrays something this far beyond the mainstream has no choice but to be activism. Hairy pussies, big butch women, men with vaginas, women with penises, fat rolls, strap ons, gender play, and all the things that other people fetishize are portrayed in a real way: portrayed by us for us.
We are these people. We are fat, hairy and really fucking gay. We are not a fetish.”
+ Psychology Tomorrow excerpts Anna Sabo’s After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography and Why It Really Matters:
“What I have found are films that have empowered and inspired me. Films that feature women I can identify with. Mothers and daughters, single or partnered, younger and older, thinner or plumper. Women who confront culturally imposed sanctions regulating their behavior, and deeply felt issues shaping their lives. Women who reject the speed limits of desire enforced upon women. Women who refuse to be labeled.”
+ The worst sex scenes in modern literature include allusions to moving like a Volkswagen, disembodied body parts and Wagner.
+ Relatedly, the Guardian discusses what makes good literary sex:
“Why is sex so hard to write well? Perhaps, the most lovely passages of sex in fiction are those that concern the moments before or immediately after rather than in what highbrow critics call mid-rumpypumpydom. Consider, for instance, this sweet scene featuring an elderly couple from Mohsin Hamid’s forthcoming novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: ‘Neither of you reaches your finish. You begin to deflate before that moment comes. But, I should add, you do reach pleasure, and a measure of comfort, and lying there afterwards, temporarily thwarted and a little embarrassed, you unexpectedly start to chuckle, and she joins you, and it is the best and warmest laugh either of you has had in some time.’”
+ Em and Lo have 10 unsexy things that will make your sex life better, including night showers, fibre, karaoke and sleep.
+ Make Sex Normal is a new tumblr featuring “the many concrete ways that people can make “sex” (e.g., sexuality, gender, puberty, periods, genitals, and relationships) so normal and everyday that it eventually becomes more common to talk and teach about sex.”
// Stylist: Jessica Santini // Makeup: Cyril Nesmon //
Hair: Audrey Lambert)
+ A survey from sex toy company JimmyJane investigates women’s masturbation habits. JimmyJane is pretty up on the masturbations scene considering their fine work inventing the Form 2, the Form 3 and their take on the classic pocket rocket. We recently reviewed their latest toy, the Hello Touch.
+ A new sex education bill will, if passed, require lessons on gender and LGBT issues:
“The text of the billstates that programs will cover ‘medically accurate, complete, age and developmentally appropriate information about all aspects of sex needed for a complete sex education program.’ This includes ‘the development of healthy attitudes and values about such topics as adolescent growth and development, body image, gender roles and gender identity, racial and ethnic diversity, and sexual orientation.’”
+ Betty Dodson gives advice for when penetration hurts:
“For now, make friends with your fear. Think how wonderful you will feel when you discover it’s nothing serious. Or if it is Vulvodynia at least you now know and you can get on with your life. If the doctor says “it’s just in your head”, kick him in the balls. (just kidding sort of). I think most docs know about Vulvodynia by now but if he doesn’t you can clue him in. A trip to Google will offer a ton of information. Meanwhile continue to enjoy your clitoral orgasms.”
+ Gay porn star Conner Habib argues for the need for more open conversations about sex, porn and culture after a college cancelled his talk on sex and culture:
“In an miniature echo of pornography’s place in culture, where millions of people watch and want pornography but are told not to want it, not to watch it, the students and community — particularly the LGBT community, which was singled out in the president’s reasoning — were told not to want or hear a discussion that they’d asked for. The school had undone the work and determination of the LGBT community. What could be left but loneliness? I started to hear from and receive emails about students — in the LGBT community and otherwise — expressing their frustrations, and saying they felt threatened and intimidated by the administration.
So — are porn and LGBT rights connected?
It is precisely the small towns and conservative or isolated areas of our world that expose how intertwined they are.”
+ Don’t forget about Autostraddle’s Babeland event on March 28th:
On March 28 at 7pm, Babeland will be hosting a free event just for Autostraddlers at their Soho location. Are you excited yet? You should be. The “Kickass Cocktail Party with Autostraddle” will be all about sex tips for queer women. We know you might not necessarily need them, but we’re sure you’ll want to try them when you hear all about Babeland’s favorite oral, strap-on and G-spot techniques, curated with your needs in mind. Babeland sex educators will be around after the workshop to answer all your questions. It will be super queer, super trans* friendly, and super sex positive (obviously!).
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