knotty-desires:

Very useful information!

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sex    spanking   

gorgonetta:

laughingsquid:

A Timeline of Vintage Vibrators

Prob. a good time to link to Lesley Hall’s Victorian Sex Factoids (and myth-debunking) page, namely the bit on vibrators. 

gorgonetta:

laughingsquid:

A Timeline of Vintage Vibrators

Prob. a good time to link to Lesley Hall’s Victorian Sex Factoids (and myth-debunking) page, namely the bit on vibrators

sex   

If butch daddies want to crochet, if twinkly ladyboys are sometimes tops in bed, if burly bears can do BDSM play as little girls, if femme fatales build bookcases in their spare time, these things, too, are not just good but great. They bring us, I believe, wonderful news: news that gendered options can continue to explode, that the chefs in the kitchen of gender are creating new and imaginative specials every day. That we, all of us, are the chefs. Hi. Have a whisk.

S. Bear Bergman, “The Field Guide to Transmasculine Creatures”

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

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FP: so, i actually teared up from reading this b/c i’ve been insecure about lots of things and this just srsly hit home. nailed it. yes yes yes.

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(via fuckyeahlesbianliterature)

sex    gender   

kleptosrbetterlovers:

resonantanonymous:

kleptosrbetterlovers:

llaurorall:

natasi:

Hysterical Literature; reading with a vibrator.
1  2  3  4 

They should have called it “Advanced English;) Watch #1 and try to understand everything she’s saying at all times. More than once the pleasure centre of her brain interferes with her speech centre :D


Women reading out loud and getting off. Two of my favorite things.

Saw these a while ago. I had no idea what I was watching to start with. Strangely compelling.

I think this would be very… interesting to try with the right person. 

I see how it is now, Res… You were just waiting for the right kink to come along. ;)

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sex   

thepirateking:

kinseysixbitch:

julianmorrison:

shameandcupcakes:

Penis is a male organ. Learn biology. Male and female are biological realities.

You can call yourself a “woman” but you cannot call yourself “female” if you have normally functioning XY chromosomes.

Penis is not a female organ.

Male and female relate to gametes only. Male and female are defined on gametes if a species has two kinds, and one is smaller. The smaller one is male. Thus ends the biological definition of male and female.

Chromosomes and stuff are how evolution builds a body to hold male or female gametes in the context of human sexual dimorphism. Different species do chromosomes differently, or use something else like how warm the egg is. Gametes are fundamental, X/Y chromosomes are just mechanism. Different species don’t necessarily have only one kind of male-plan body or female-plan body.

Evolution doesn’t exactly build a body as “male” or “female” either. There’s a lot of slippage in the process that constructs male-plan and female-plan bodies, and that’s clearly “deliberate” (evolution could tighten up the error checking, but has chosen not to). Complicated genders and complicated bodies seem to be an evolutionary advantage, in small numbers, such that there are enough cis straight people left over to breed.

Now you have learned some biology. Time to learn some sociology.

Privileging the biology as an explanatory excuse is something our society does to create castes called “sexes”, that relate only in the crudest way to biological reality. Defining two-and-only-two sexes is something our society does because they are castes, not because they relate in any reliable way to having large or small gametes, or the ability to carry or fertilize a pregnancy.

Penis is defined as a “male” organ because facing the biological reality that not everyone constructed with a penis has a male-plan brain would break the caste system.

When you define it as a “male” organ, you re reinforcing these patriarchal castes.

Now you have learned some sociology.

bless

bless

(via fuckyeahhardfemme)

biology    sex    gender   

grasstomyknees:

basically, queer people of color are perfect.

(via allqueersallthetime)

sex   

Porn is about male fantasy. The fantasy is that women like everything you do to them, as man.

So how does this translate into real life? Women spend a lot of time and energy trying to please men. We learn early on that we are being looked at – that we are to be looked at. That we are performers. It took years before I actually started enjoying sex. YEARS. I think what I enjoyed most about sex, when I was younger, was the feeling of being desired. The actual sex part was super boring for the first while.

We learn, as girls and women, that the performance is more important than the actual feeling.

sex    oppression    sexism   

I know this may come as a shock but..

shooting4myownhand:

People in Medieval Europe liked sex! They had sex! They created art with sexual themes. They were not a bunch of prudes who just prayed to Jesus and the virgin Mary all day.

Books on sexuality:

  1. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others by Ruth Mazo Karras
  2. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England by Ruth Mazo Karras
  3. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell

Here are two pieces of art from Medieval Europe:

Lets finally get rid of the myth that everyone in Medieval Europe was a bunch of religious prudes who would never even think about having sex. it’s a load of shit.

(via manticoreimaginary)

sex    history    europe   

everettodair:

i got 99 problems and society’s attitudes towards sex and sexuality is like 98 of them

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sex    sexuality   

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sex    lesbians    nsfw    yeah i actually used that tag   

sex    lesbians    monster   

gif    the daily show    reproductive rights    sex    double standard   

Library sex began with high hopes. Long before the era of the public library, stories of sex among books were set in private collections, in secluded humanist studies. The protagonist of Antonio Vignali’s 1526 La Cazzaria (The Book of the Prick) examines a collection of raunchy books and manuscripts in a private study as he awaits the arrival of a lover. The presence of smutty works in progress is telling: there is an elegant cross-pollination here. Books inspire sex, sex creates books—and all within the four walls of the library.

Avi Steinberg, The Paris Review. Checking Out.

A brief history of libraries, librarians and sex in which we learn that “again and again,” in contemporary library-porn lit, “the neglected love life of the librarian is a stand-in for the doomed state of the library generally.”

(via futurejournalismproject)

Pretend I posted this yesterday for ~Valentine’s Day~.

(via libraryjournal)

That’s interesting, because I always interpreted the stereotypical “spinster” librarian as code for lesbrarian.  But maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part.

(via libraryjournal)

librarians    libraries    sex    isn't spinster old code for lesbian in any context?   

When we consider the myriad school shootings that have occurred between 1992 and 2002 (there have been twenty-eight cases), several constants stand out. All twenty-eight cases were committed by boys. All but one was committed by a white boy in a suburban or rural school. We speak of teen violence, youth violence, violence in the schools. but no one in the media ever seems to call it suburban white boy violence, although that is exactly what it is. Try a little thought experiment: Imagine that all the killers in the more famous shootings in the 1990s - Littleton, Colorado; Pearl, Mississippi; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Oregon; and Jonesboro, Arkansas, were black girls from poor families who lived instead in New Haven, Boston, Chicago, Newark. Wouldn’t we now be having a national debate about inner-city black girls? Would not the media focus entirely on race, class, and gender?

Of course it would: We’d hear about the culture of poverty; about how life in the city breeds crime and violence; about some putative natural tendency among blacks towards violence. Someone would probably even blame feminism for causing girls to become violent in vain imitation of boys. Yet the obvious fact that these school killers were all middle-class white boys seems to have escaped the media’s notice, in part because race, class, and gender are only visible when speaking of those who are not privileged by race, class and gender but invisible when speaking of those who are privileged by them.

Michael Kimmel: Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (via mollay)

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privilege    race    class    sex