“I have been in the trenches a long time and have seen positive change in sexuality, sexual politics, and the sex industry at large including retail and content production. Of course as a society we still have a long long way to go but I am heartened by the groundswell of the various youth movements and young writers and educators and filmmakers who know what they want, won’t settle for less, and have the media and technology at their fingertips to make it happen with very low overhead.”
+ ESPN’s bodies we want issue is out now. Race car driver Courtney Force, motocross racer Tarah Gieger, rock climber Daila Ojeda, snowboarder Elena Hight, boxer Marlen Esparza, volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings, UFC contender Miesha Tate, soccer player Sydney Leroux, golfer Carly Booth and WNBA player Swin Cash are among those featured.
Sydney Leroux via ESPN’s Bodies We Want 2013 issue
“The word “slut” can be used punitively, aggressively, shamingly, chidingly, in seemingly congratulatory manner, jokingly, with complete vitriol, etc. In short, it has no real, clearly-defined meaning. It’s a collection of (sometimes contradictory) connotations huddled around an empty set, its only true defining feature being a murky connection to sexual impropriety. According to the dictionary, a “slut” is “a promiscuous woman; especially: PROSTITUTE.” (Definition b: “a saucy girl: MINX”). Apparently, it comes from the Norwegian word for “impure liquid,” which makes sense, because we sluts are constantly stewing in a collection of impure sauces, like those of the bog from which Grendel emerged.”
“‘Hey, baby. What security protocols are you implementing to ensure the safety of the sensitive materials I’ve electronically transmitted to you?’ is perhaps one of the least sexy sentences a person can say. That doesn’t make it less important. If you spend hours stripping all your photos of metadata, airbrushing out your tattoos, and encrypting your connection, it won’t mean a thing if your partner uses your image as his phone’s wallpaper or uploads them to imgur. When you send explicit photos to someone else, you’re not just trusting them. You’re trusting their security habits.”
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