I Yearn for a Soulmate. So Why Do I Also Want to Open My Relationship?
Sophie K Rosa
We’re all a mess of contradictions.
Tag: sex
46: Porn Is Everywhere. How Damaging Is It Really?
Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar
What happens when sex becomes an online stunt? Ash and Moya discuss OnlyFans and ubiquitous porn.
Do My Violent Kinks Make Me Less of a Feminist?
Sophie K Rosa
Submission is not capitulation.
On the Frontiers of Deviance
Sita Balani explains how statecraft turned deadly and slick.
How Racism Affects Our Sex Lives
Does love transcend everything? What does it mean to fall in love in an unequal world? Dalia Gebrial looks at how race shapes our experiences of sex and desire, and asks: what would it take to create better conditions for loving one another?
Who Has the Right to Sex?
Amia Srinivasan and James Butler explore the philosophical grey zones between power, intimacy and violence.
Navigating Sex and Desire Is a Headfuck When You’re Black, Disabled and a Woman
The Triple Cripples
We are hyper-sexualised and desexualised at the same time.
Challenging Monogamy Is a Political Act
Sophie K Rosa
The institution has its roots in capitalism and colonialism.
Do I Think About Rape Too Much?
Why are women more afraid of violence from strangers on the street when – statistically speaking – home is the place where they’re most unsafe? Ash Sarkar takes a look at how rational fears are used to justify irrational policy decisions, and what we miss when we talk about ‘rape culture’.
Why Are Intactivists Up In Arms About Male Circumcision?
Jordan Osserman
"No foreskin, no peace!"
Monogamy Is Cool, Actually
Chal Ravens
Call me a tradwife but polyamory ain’t praxis.
Ask Justin: I’ve Never Kissed Anyone. What Do I Do?
Justin Hancock
Listen to yourself, not your friends.
Were Trans People “Born This Way”?
In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called ‘gender critical’ thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.
How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives
Is ‘consent’ the only dividing line between good sex and bad sex? Ash Sarkar is joined by Rachel Thompson to discuss her new book Rough, and the politics of pornography, kink, and sex ambivalent feminism.
How We Won: The Ugandan Feminists Who Overturned an Anti-Porn Law
Sophie K Rosa
They fought back "from the word go".
Incels Aren’t a Punchline. It’s High Time We Took Them Seriously
Moya Lothian-McLean
We need preventative measures for dealing with misogyny.
Sex, Dissidence, Desire
Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.
Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
Eleanor Penny
The pop star inhabits a gilded version of the same cage that traps all wage labourers. She also has the same tools to escape.