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Unconventional sex ed lessons from 50 Shades of Grey

Tweet A SYTYCB entry When I read 50 Shades of Grey last week, I expected to be disappointed and dismayed. However, I was pleasantly surprised. I found the book to be quite a welcome interruption of the dominant script for sex and romance that I see in the media: boy meets girl, boy woos girl, [...]
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Brand Spanking New: A Librarian Reviews A Sex Book

Tweet*Editor’s note: NSFW I got an unexpected package in the mail the other day. Because I’m a book reviewer, I somehow ended up on the list of folks who get review copies from Cleis Press, a publisher of feminist erotica. Imagine my surprise when I opened my package at the counter of the local post [...]
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It’s Not Just Katie Roiphe: How ‘Girls’ is Also Giving BDSM a Bad Name

TweetIn a recent piece defending HBO’s Girls, Amanda Marcotte attacks “the strange belief that female characters on TV need to be paragons of virtue and excellent choice-making”. Why should it be problematic that the main characters on the show make bad decisions, lack self-awareness, and have disastrous encounters with the opposite sex? Maybe it shouldn’t. [...]
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Why being vocal about your awesome, consensual rough sex is fighting sexual assault

TweetReblogged from http://pricklypants.com Over the last 5 weeks I’ve been training to become a support worker for the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa. I still have a while to go, but it has definitely forced me to think about a lot of things differently than I have in the past. Lately we have been discussing [...]
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