Tag: fear
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Silencing and Sexual Shame and Monsters
I won’t go into detail here about what exactly happened to me last weekend. I don’t want to make the person involved feel bad, should that person come across this blog post. But the long and short of it is that I was shown, in very blatant terms, a manifestation of extreme sexual shame on…
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The Vibrator in the Bedroom: Friend or Foe of the Straight Man?
Not featured: human beings. In a noteworthy article on Salon today, Tracy Clark-Flory brings up a very cheering topic: straight men are starting to get less intimidated by sex toys. Granted, Tracy lives in San Francisco, where things tend to be a bit more sexually progressive than elsewhere, but it’s encouraging to hear coming from…