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Posted on April 12, 2018 December 10, 2018

What A Fake ‘Female Orgasm’ Statistic Says About Gender Bias

Suzannah Weiss
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Suzannah Weiss
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Lust+Liaisons, Society+Politics
Tagged
brain-body, gender, orgasm, research, sex

For years, experts have been peddling a damaging falsehood about the time it takes for cis women to orgasm. Read more

Posted on March 13, 2018 August 1, 2018

Dear Jeff, California, 35: Do You Enjoy Going Down On Your Wife?

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Written by
Lusty Licker
Posted in
Wit+Whimsy
Tagged
relationships, satire, sex, Sexism

If you need your wife to don Lorals’ ironclad, single-use, nonporous, vanilla-scented underwear to get her there, then your enthusiasm for licking is lacking, Jeff. Read more

Posted on February 9, 2018 December 11, 2018

A Brief History Of The C-Word

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Lust+Liaisons
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etymology, feminism, history, sex

Our self-contempt originates in this: in knowing we are ‘cunt’. Read more

Posted on January 18, 2018 July 25, 2018

How Can We Teach Consent If We Don’t Teach About Pleasure?

Andrea Barrica
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Andrea Barrica
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Lust+Liaisons
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consent, metoo, Pleasure, sex

Let 2018 be the year we demand more than freedom from sexual harassment and abuse. This year, it’s time we demand pleasure. Read more

Posted on January 8, 2018 January 31, 2019

Why Will People Be Into Sex Robots?

Tina Horn
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Tina Horn
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Lust+Liaisons
Tagged
sex, sex work, sex-robots, technology

‘Sex robots combine the propensity people have to panic about technology with their propensity to panic about sex.’ Read more

Posted on December 12, 2017 October 9, 2018

Bad Advice On Judging Your Friend’s Gross Slutty Instagram Photos

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Bad Advice, Bad Advisor, Instagram, sex, wit-whimsy

Welcome to our latest Bad Advice column! Stay tuned every Tuesday for more terrible guidance based on actual letters. Read more

Posted on December 8, 2017 October 9, 2018

Recourse, redemption, and a touch of revenge.

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al-franken, Medicine, nuclear-war, sex, sex work

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Posted on December 1, 2017 October 9, 2018

The Remarkable Intersection Of Anal Sex And Toxic Masculinity

Katie Tandy
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Katie Tandy
Posted in
Lust+Liaisons, members-only
Tagged
anal, lust-liaisons, sex, sex-beasts, Toxic Masculinity

‘Being penetrated is a potent symbol of vulnerability!’ I thought another man could get through to my man-friend in a way I never could. Read more

Posted on October 4, 2017 September 7, 2018

A Wide Open Letter To My Mouths: A Nonbinary Survivor Story

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Chloe Rossetti
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Uncategorized
Tagged
brain-body, healing, nonbinary, sex, sexual assault

I use you to pleasure and protect each other, and me—this is my love letter to you, Mouths. Read more

Posted on October 2, 2017 September 19, 2018

Writer Of The Week: Tina Horn

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Arts+Creators, Lust+Liaisons
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feminism, lust-liaisons, sex, Sexuality, writer-of-the-week

‘The dichotomy between erotica and porn is classist and fake.’ Read more

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