Lapham’s Quarterly
Between the Streets | Andrew Israel Ross
9 min · · Acknowledging public sex changed how walkers interacted with Paris. · Shared by 19, including Rick Powell
Dazed
How social media and our obsession with ‘authenticity’ is changing porn
8 min · · The rise of ‘amateur’ and ‘feminist’ porn, along with webcamming and Twitter, is bringing porn stars closer to viewers than ever – and giving them a new set of problems · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
ejumpcut.org
Male Gay Porn: Coming to Terms by Richard Dyer
20+ min · · Male gay porn Coming to terms by Richard Dyer from Jump Cut, no. 30, March 1985, pp. 27-29 copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1985, 2005 The main suggestions I'd like to make in this… · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Tablet Magazine
Meme Wars: America’s New Sex Bureaucracy
9 min · · Four feminist law professors at Harvard Law School have been telling some alarming truths about the tribunals that have been adjudicating collegiate sex for the past five years. Campus Title IX… · Shared by 12, including Christina Hoff Sommers, Rick Powell
tandfonline.com
Homophobia, conversion therapy, and care models for trans youth: defending the gender-affirmative approach: Journal of LGBT Youth: Vol 0, No…
· Shared by 8, including Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell
The New York Times
Many Genes Influence Same-Sex Sexuality, Not a Single ‘Gay Gene’
9 min · · The largest study of same-sex sexual behavior finds the genetics are complicated, and social and environmental factors are also key. · Shared by 57, including Loubna Rais, Vaughan Bell, George J Huba PhD, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., HealthyWomen.org, The Indian Express, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Martin Varsavsky
Fast Company
What teens are asking Roo, Planned Parenthood’s new sex-ed chatbot
5 min · · Teens have had nearly a million conversations with the chatbot, which answers burning questions about bodies, sex, and relationships. · Shared by 46, including Rick Powell, Johannes Lenz, Thomas Power, Johannes Dornisch, Jane IMAGINABLE McGonigal ❤️
haaretz.com
Rabbi Shmuley's daughter just opened a sex shop in Tel Aviv
5 min · · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Lolita understood that some sex is transactional. So did I
5 min · · If everyone from religious fundamentalists to radical feminists agrees that work is good, why exclude sex work? · Shared by 49, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
How British police put 16 men in the dock for consensual sadomasochism
2 min · · In the late 1980s in the UK, Roland Jaggard was part of a loose-knit group of men who engaged in, and occasionally videotaped, consensual sadomasochistic same-sex acts. While Jaggard acknowledged that… · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
Los Angeles Review of Books
Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
11+ min · · Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths hristianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and now, Christians confess, risen in… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
How ancient poetry can revitalise our erotic imaginations
11+ min · · Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi are far more stimulating than modern pornography · Shared by 32, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rick Powell
The Outline
AAFU: I slept with my best friend’s boyfriend
3 min · · I feel terrible. How do I get her to forgive me? · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
The Right to Sexuality
1 min · · A couple with intellectual disabilities fights for the right to live together. · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
The Paris Review
We Are All Scared by What We Aren’t Saying
7 min · · On finding sex, undefining gender, and trying the New York Times’s “36 Questions That Lead to Love.” · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
New York Post
Car sex is fun in movies — but the real-life risks are shocking
2 min · · “You still have the Corolla?” actress Ali Wong asks Randall Park in the just-released Netflix rom-com “Always Be My Maybe.” Their characters, Sasha and Marcus, are kid friends in San Francisco who … · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell