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Remember, remember.

01 Apr 2015 at 19:18

maymay

I met Staci Newmahr shortly after I turned 18. At that time, the pseudo-public playspaces and “dungeons” of the early 2000’s S&M subculture defined “young” as “anyone who was not yet 40 years old, or 35 at least.” Despite being about a decade my senior, Staci (who would go on to author a widely acclaimed […]

Brainwave [discussing one problem with “Social Justice as Melodrama”]

07 Nov 2014 at 17:15

maymay

Politics of sex

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cool-yubari: maymay: [This post and previous discussion truncated.] since I make clear that they can not actually cripple me with self-doubt, they do everything they can to cripple others with self-doubt. This forces me and mine to defend not only against the infliction of direct challenges to our senses of self, but to (over-)extend ourselves […]

Wednesday Wanderings: Stupid People See Sex as Shame and Stigma

03 Nov 2010 at 23:54

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Wednesday Wanderings

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Look, sex is political. I’m really, really sorry about that because the people who that fact hurts the most are the people who aren’t empowered to live or fuck the way they want, but it is. And with this week’s midterm election just past, here’s a couple of links driving that point home that caught […]

Wednesday Wanderings: On Aliens and Strip Clubs (but not Alien Strip Clubs)

28 Oct 2010 at 16:11

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Wednesday Wanderings

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Innately, I seek out information from a variety of sources. This is because I truly believe that multiple perspectives are necessary to understand one thing. With Kink On Tap, I’ve been able to turn my media consumption routine into a media production routine, but sometimes I find things that are more fitting to put here […]