Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from having good sex. They keep people from having pride in their sexuality, from sexual self-awareness. They keep people from asking questions about sex, and communicating with their partners. They discourage experimentation. They blur the lines between consensual sex and rape by framing all sex as an undifferentiated mass of “bad.
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.
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this IS profeshily. coming to an interview near you.
get on your knees.
damn I love this look. share plz?
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
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idk who said this, but its hateful sentiments like this one that give feminism a bad wrap. i cant stand feminists who shame sex workers & people in prostitution. stop throwing so much damn shade to the sex trade. a lot of it is horrible and a lot of it is beautiful. (via bivouaclady) i just googled and it’s rebecca west. this is the first time i’ve seen that quote with “or a prostitute” on the end tho. hmm. |
