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“Monster porn”, otherwise known as “monster erotica”, “cryptozoological erotica”, and “erotic horror”, should be well-known to fans of this site. These sexy stories employ mythical creatures — everything from vampires, demons, zombies, and other monsters to centaurs, mermaids, leprechauns, and aliens — as sex partners. And apparently this upsets people enough for them to censor such stories. But why? Via Gracie Passette
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Sexism in erotica censorship (NWS) 
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Timothy Sykes: Online dating profiles don't make it easy for users to communicate their disability in a sensitive and meaningful way Via britishroses, Shawnee Rivers, Deanna Dahlsad
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July 1, 2014 10:57 AM
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Emily Berger's curator insight,
July 7, 2016 5:14 PM
After reading this article I feel as if people with disabilities should be treated like everyone else. It should be the person’s choice if they want to reveal that to whomever they are speaking to. I think there should be an option on the profile where you can check off disability but it should be optional. Everyone is different and everyone handles situations differently. Some may be very open about this and some may not. However, I do not feel that they should be grouped differently. People with disabilities should have the same opportunities as everyone else. If the other users choose not to go out with them that is up to them. People get denied all the time on these sites whether they have a disability or not. When creating a profile people are given the opportunity to present themselves however they want and I feel it should be the person’s choice on how they want to show their disability. Even though it may be harder for people with disabilities to find a partner, there are many other issues people have as well that can stop them from dating also. Overall, I feel that people with disabilities should be treated equally and they should be able to put what they want on their profile. 
Linet' Fox's curator insight,
July 9, 2016 1:49 PM
This article touched me. I have not taken into consideration the trials and tribulations of the disabled, when it comes to finding a match. How would someone communicate their disability in a sensitive and meaningful way?
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We often have cause to complain about media coverage of sex work, but we haven’t had occasion to talk about how good stories can be edited into inadequate ones as they travel from reporter to final outlet. The fate of Jordan Flaherty‘s story about Project ROSE (Reaching Out to the Sexually Exploited) is a great opportunity to look at what happens when a journalist tries to show the public the whole story but is met with resistance from his employer. Via Gracie Passette, Deanna Dahlsad
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This affects things like cosplay too. Some say that the mainstreaming of cosplay has created a sexist and hypersexualized aura surrounding the hobby. They say that “surge of ‘fake geek girls’” who are “pretty and wearing something revealing” are quickly “labeled cosplay ‘celebrities’ and are featured on dozens of websites” as authorities to the detriment of other costumers and hobbiests. In other words, the media packaging of traditional beauty standards have gotten in the way of the fun for everyone in cosplay. Via Gracie Passette
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Meet the gay black fathers who outraged the internet with their "typical family morning". Via Craftypants Carol, Deanna Dahlsad
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The women's magazine Marie Claire published an incendiary article on its website this week asking "Should "Fatties" Get A Room? (Even on TV?)" which is receiving a backlash of condemnation via social media.
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January 20, 2014 8:09 AM
Less sex on TV would be awesome overall, but targeting specific groups of people just isn't cool. Get a clue Marie Claire!
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Maybe you don't want to call it a "war on women". Maybe you find the word "war" to be over-the-top, despite the facts regarding bombings, shootings, rape, and other violent attacks against women, i...
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So the language of porn has jumped in to fill that space, and that’s an issue, because in a male-dominated industry the language of porn is all too often male-generated. The person who coined the term “finger blasting” didn’t have a vagina. The person who coined the term, “getting your ass railed” never got their ass railed. Pounding, hammering, banging… And language matters, because when the only language you have available is abusive and one-directional, in terms of having things done to you, it creates a very weird view of how sex works. Porn Is Dead, Long Live Sex | VICE United States (via sinshine)
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Pretty much everything you need to know about sex in 6 minutes.
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According to a pamphlet I found in the bathroom of the library downtown, there's a lot more going on in sex than you may have guessed. For instance, did you know you can do it different ways? And with someone else? It's quite the circus. Grab some popcorn and a clown! In my limited sexing, I've enjoyed a few of the different fruits the Humptree has to offer, but there's a lot out there, and some of it seems like it was made up just so someone could say they did it, with little consideration for the practical and, dare I say, sensual benefits of such a maneuver. Let's take some time to go over some of the sexual repertoire that just doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, and see if we can't figure out why.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Funny because it's true ;)
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Today’s AIDS landscape reveals that an unyielding devotion to condom usage isn’t enough to halt the spread of HIV. It takes a variety of safe-sex practices to shield gay men from infection, and Truvada should be a linchpin of that strategy. Given the seemingly unstoppable drop in condom usage among gay men, this is no time for ideological disputes or intergenerational conflict. Every gay man with multiple sex partners should take Truvada, and AIDS activists should do everything they can to get the drug in the hands of those who want it.
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Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe signed four executive orders immediately after his inauguration today, including one that outlaws discrimination against LGBT state employees.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Step One...
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It’s widely accepted that computer-mediated communication—emailing, texting, sexting, commenting, chatting, and so on—has changed the way we speak, even when we’re away from the keyboard. But a new label being embraced online by some transgender people may represent a linguistic first: borrowing from computer language itself. The label in question is trans*, and the asterisk stems from common computing usage wherein it represents a wildcard—any number of other characters attached to the original prefix.
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I have seen a sixteen-year-old boy weeping in distress after getting a girl's pube stuck in his teeth, I hear he was unshaven. I have seen boys showing each other porn on their iPhones on the train... Via MLB
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January 11, 2014 12:01 PM
“2014 is not a good year to be a teenage girl. The last of the 90’s kids are growing up and we are starting to see the effects of being raised with the Internet. For generations before us, hormonal teenage boys looking for sexy images of women had limited options; they could brave the embarrassment of going to the counter and buying Playboy, they could look through their sister’s Cosmo or they could use their imagination. Porn today has rid itself of the embarrassment-factor by embracing the anonymity of the World Wide Web; Playboy isn’t really considered to be porn anymore, the real stuff lives in your phone, on your laptop, your tablet; it is available anywhere, anytime at the touch of a button. In fact this very website receives a steady stream of hits that result from someone googling some combination of ‘housekeeping porn’ + ‘sex’, ‘lesbian’ and/or ‘rape’. As you read this, somewhere there is an eleven-year-old boy curiously typing ‘porn’ into Google, probably hoping to see some big boobies. Fast forward a couple of years and he is masturbating to a video of a crying woman who is being tied down, simultaneously penetrated by three men, spanked, and being called a whore. Young boys are being de-sensitized to violence and the more they consume, the more abusive, the more graphic the porn has to be to excite them.”
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As a feminist organization, Secular Woman promotes gender equality. We stand against and combat sexism, hate, intolerance, and misogyny. Transgender women are women. Cisgender women are women. We do not, in any way, view the existence of transgender women, genderqueer individuals or transgender men as a threat to the safety of women, female identity, or the goals of feminism. As intersectional feminists we acknowledge the privilege that cisgender people experience. We aim to dismantle the axis of oppression that this represents. Unfortunately, not all who claim the label “feminist” agree with us. They do not represent us and we reject their actions and views as unethical and devoid of reason. We stand in opposition. Members of our community have been targeted by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs). Personal information such as former names, current legal names, and photographs have been compiled and displayed on the website “Name the Problem”. Several of the entries are self-attributed to “Pegasus” ("PegasusBug" is a pseudonym of Cathy Brennan, the head of Gender Identity Watch). This information was presented alongside reports describing rapists and batterers of women. Countless others, including members of transgender advocacy groups have reported similar treatment, as well as other alarming behavior, such as Cathy Brennan contacting employers, schools and medical doctors of transgender women, girls and young men. This is unacceptable.
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Please like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TenWaysUK A condom might not be able to protect you against Lord Voldemort, Daleks or a wrecking ball...
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The discrimination I face, both because of my work and as an activist, are compounded in complex ways by the fact that I am both queer and a sex worker. Yet each is distinctly different and cannot be compared. Queer and sex work communities are diverse and no-one should attempt to speak to collective experience – I speak to my lived experience only. Via Gracie Passette
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"The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people," the actress explained to Couric
Crystel Hamilton's curator insight,
January 15, 2014 3:17 PM
When Katie Couric questions Laverne Cox about her transition, Laverne positively redirects the question to something more important to her; educating the world about transgender issues. The homicide rate is highest for trans women. If we always address the transition, we don't focus on the other important issues.
Very amazing women! 
TLD-Gender Dysphoria's curator insight,
September 8, 2015 2:49 PM
That is such a brilliant point Laverne and i think very true. By reducing people parts of themselves we are dismissing the complexity and totality of the person. When "news" organizations and other media do this they are contributing to the discrimination and violence that people are experiencing.
It is not just media that does this of course and people should take responsibility for themselves however, a society where all people are more than just a sound bite or a surgery is the world we should be promoting in mass media.
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Has sex-positive feminism, despite its victories, forgotten that sex work is actually work, and often quite brutal?
...Despite the acceptance of “sluts,” the “prostitute” remains a deeply embedded symbolic marker between decency and disrespect. The “ethical slut” engages in sex of her or his own “free” will, while the “dirty whore” insists on getting paid for sex. Sex-positive feminists and other “sluts” believe there is nothing morally wrong with consensual sex between two (or more) people in private, or for adults, in a semi-public setting such as a sex club, dungeon or swingers’ retreat. But money changes everything.
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The Devadasi, a centuries-old caste of sacred temple priestesses, struggles to have it's own renaissance. One woman leads the way...
The origins of the practice are often disputed, but historians agree that in India by the 10th century this caste of sacred temple servants enjoyed great wealth & property as signs of respect & clout.
Considered married to the Hindu deities, the Devadasi were talented dancers, singers & even viewed as political advisors. At the core of Devadasi faith is the belief all men are incarnations of the male deities & so in addition to performing sacred temple ceremonies, Devadasis offered sexual services. In the act of making love, a man & a Devadasi enact the sacred marriage of god & goddess which therefore allows them to become divine themselves.
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SUBMIT A WORKSHOP PROPOSAL Please plan to join us in Washington, DC August 14-17, 2014 for the fifth annual Sexual Freedom Summit, a national event
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May-December romances: so verboten. AND YET! What's a living, breathing, attracted-to-men person supposed to do when Patrick Stewart tweets out adorable photos of himself with Ian McKellan on the town, looking incredibly dapper and fierce?
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December 28, 2013 6:20 PM
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Although we do have hard and clear evidence - archeologically speaking - that the veneration of women, of the yoni, and of Goddesses have been the primal and primary form of religion around the globe, it has been the East - specifically ancient India with its Tantric teachings - where this seems to have found its most exalted and open expression.
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Alan Duncan of the nudist magazine Nude Living looks at what brings women to undress in front of the eyes of the public: is it exhibitionism, does it make them a whore, is it a sign of frigidity...or are they simply sexually healthy women?
From the August 1963 issue of Nude Living
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Censorship games regarding women & sex fantasies.
I don't like to put really adult stuff here -- but the sexism in this really can't be ignored. At least it shouldn't be ignored.
I don't like to put really adult stuff here -- but the sexism in this really can't be ignored. At least it shouldn't be ignored.