TORONTO (April 8, 2013)—The First Annual Feminist Porn Conference was held at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2013 and drew nearly 250 attendees. This one-day conference brought together academics, cultural critics, performers, directors, producers, sex workers, activists, students, and fans to explore the emergence of feminist porn as a genre, industry, field of […]
By AliceSin Aerie
Within our own minds, the thing that turns us on the most is sacred. For some of us in the kink community the high value we place on our personal kinky hot button can leave us feeling lonely in a crowd, bullied or even make us into bullies ourselves.
What kind of company markets itself with the line “Sex is Fun… Infection Isn’t?” That would be us, JustGetTested™. JustGetTested is a company created to offer fast, reliable, confidential and affordable STD testing. And we do it online. (We know: “Online blood testing?” More about that later.) Another part of what we do is to […]
By Shanna Katz
I’m part of the LGBTQ community. Sometimes it isn’t that great; I have less rights than many members of our society, I can be fired just for being queer in many states, and while hate crimes laws exist, it doesn’t prohibit bullying of folks like me, the stares, being yelled at and told I’m sinning, and so on.
Many of us have been lead into believing intimacy is limited to the act of having sex alone. Ironically, our misunderstanding of intimacy has influenced the development of unfulfilled sex lives within our relationships. We base too much of our bonding on a physical aspect alone. Being fully present and sharing with our romantic partners, […]