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Welcome to NSFW Sunday! It’s the last weekend of August, make it a good one.
+ Queer porn creator Courtney Trouble discussed their work, politics, pleasure, fisting, TroubleFilms and more:
“”When I started this in 2002, I was rebelling against homophobia,” Trouble said. “There’s always been a political need for access to queer porn because of the cultural impact that goes beyond the entertainment factor.”
Not all of the films are shot through a political lens — Trouble thinks that people with non-conforming gender identities deserve the luxury of watching porn without being barraged with identity politics. Trouble said that the genesis of their queer porn philosophy — borne from the intersection of local punk culture, BDSM and leather communities, and East Bay political factions — was to normalize how nonconforming people have sex.”
+ Math is a print (!) feminist porn magazine that looks like a medical textbook that creator MacKenzie Peck says “is to turn people on using words and images rarely seen but often sought.” At the Huffington Post, Peck discusses why she created Math and shares a peek inside:
“[S]he embarked on a mission to provide her peers with the salacious material they could feel comfortable perusing, knowing that it was created safely, consensually and fairly. ‘Readers can still have the discovery, the surprise, even that sense of taboo,’ Peck said. ‘But with the knowledge that everything was produced in collaboration with models and using the most ethical practices.’
She set out to create, in other words, a ‘safe version of the sexy internet.’
Peck’s other main goal was to increase the kinds of bodies and relationships represented on the page, while still keeping her magazine nasty. ‘I often find in mainstream pornography, there is this inverse relationship between explicitness and quality,’ she expressed. ‘One of my main focuses is maintaining a high level of quality while continuing to push boundaries in terms of kink and sexuality and unrepresented groups.’”
+ You don’t have to be a good submissive.
+ Sex gets safer when sexual education discusses gender inequality.
+ Kissing isn’t always romantic.
+ Good Vibrations founder Joani Blank died earlier this month. In a profile at Bitch, Lynn Comella writes:
“Blank helped give form to what would eventually become known as ‘sex-positive feminism.’ She blended the educationally oriented and quasi-therapeutic approach to talking about sex that she had refined as a sex therapist with aspects of 1970s feminist consciousness-raising and humanistic sexology, turning her small vibrator shop into a sexual resource center for anyone who might wander in. She felt that talking about sex should be as casual as talking about the weather; she also believed that sexual information was a birthright and that no one should be made to feel ashamed or embarrassed for wanting more pleasure in their life.”
+ Are you queer and poly? A new Autostraddle series will explore how queer polyamory functions, how it feels, what it looks like and more. Tell me about your life and you might be featured!
