Novara FM: On the Frontiers of Deviance
Sita Balani explains how statecraft turned deadly and slick.
Tag: sex
Explainers: 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?
Novara FM: Who Has the Right to Sex?
Amia Srinivasan and James Butler explore the philosophical grey zones between power, intimacy and violence.
Opinion: Navigating Sex and Desire Is a Headfuck When You’re Black, Disabled and a Woman
by The Triple Cripples
We develop our ideas about sex and relationships by observing the world around us. Things get tricky, then, when there's nobody you can relate to.
Opinion: Challenging Monogamy Is a Political Act
by Sophie K Rosa
Regardless of the relationship style we choose, we should all challenge compulsory monogamy, writes Sophie K Rosa.
Ash Wednesday: 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'.
Opinion: Why Are Intactivists Up In Arms About Male Circumcision?
by Jordan Osserman
The reasons have a lot less to do with human rights than with capitalism, argues academic and trainee psychoanalyst Jordan Osserman.
Opinion: Monogamy Is Cool, Actually
by Chal Ravens
Rejecting normie coupledom is all the rage on the left, but polyamory isn't praxis, writes Chal Ravens.
Feature: Ask Justin: I’ve Never Kissed Anyone. What Do I Do?
by Justin Hancock
I'm a 21-year-old university student with a painful secret: I've never kissed anyone. What do I do? Stop worrying about your friends' judgement and listen to your body, writes sex and relationships expert Justin Hancock.
Downstream: 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”.
Downstream: 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.
Report: How We Won: The Ugandan Feminists Who Overturned an Anti-Porn Law
by Sophie K Rosa
Ending a six-year battle, feminist campaigners in Uganda have overturned a law designed to criminalise pornography, but which ended up criminalising women’s sexuality. While this victory is undoubtedly important, there is a bigger war to be fought, they say.
Opinion: Incels Aren’t a Punchline. It’s High Time We Took Them Seriously
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Jake Davison’s Plymouth shooting rampage is a horrific wake-up call for Britain to finally start treating incel culture like the urgent problem it is.
Novara FM: Sex, Dissidence, Desire
Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.
Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
by 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, writes Eleanor Penny.
Novara FM: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.
Report: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Why Banning Sex Is Bad Public Health Policy
by Sophie K Rosa
For most of the last year, it's been illegal to have sex with someone unless you live with them under UK coronavirus rules. But the government’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach to pandemic sex is no way to minimise risk. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: All Work, No Sex: Boris Johnson’s ‘Road Map’ for Leaving Lockdown Is Driven by Ideology Not Science
by Sophie K Rosa
You can travel on packed public transport, but you can't protest police racism. You can go to work, but not to the home of a friend or family member - unless you're Dominic Cummings, of course. The government's plan for easing lockdown is as inadequate, ideological and inconsistent as Boris Johnson's overall handling of a pandemic in which he has presided over more than 50,000 deaths, writes Sophie K Rosa.