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We Don’t Need Fewer Rape Story Lines On TV, We Need Smarter Ones
The media's poverty of imagination and poor script writing skills belie the power – and importance – of sexual assault narratives on TV and in movies. Since its 2011 debut, HBO's Game of Thrones has...
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Chase Bank’s Anti-Porn Policy Isn’t New, But It Is Scary
To anyone in the know, it was really just another example of business as usual. Last week, Chase Bank made the news for shuttering numerous porn-related bank accounts, including the personal accounts...
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Sorry, Adult Industry, but No One Is Going to Pay for Porn
Piracy is now par for the course for porn consumers, and that's unlikely to change any time soon. Last week, porn publishers Adult Empire, along with a number of adult stars, announced the launch of...
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Getting Rejected by the Apple App Store Is the Best Thing That Can Happen to...
Do we really want this game to be placed behind the gate of parental permission? HappyPlayTime is a game with a simple mission: it wants to destigmatize female masturbation, and help young women...
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In Defense of Holding on to Nude Photos of Exes
I still like knowing a token of our intimate connection still survives. This week, a German court ruled that ex-partners must delete all nude or intimate photos if one partner requests it (clothed...
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First Encounters: ‘Revenge of the Nerds’
I wanted to keep watching this scene for as long as I could. First Encounters is a series in which writers explore the media that inspired their first brush with their sexuality. Whether it was a book,...
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Confessions of an Awkward Teen Girl
Men aren’t the only ones who go through the sexual rejection that Elliot Rodger experienced. Plenty of teen girls do too. For my twelfth birthday, my parents allowed me to graduate from glasses to...
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Nope, Getting Married Won’t Turn an Abusive Boyfriend Into a Gentle Husband
It’s been an exciting week for The Washington Post. Hot on the heels of George Will’s proclamation that being a sexual assault survivor is now a “coveted status” on college campuses, they’ve published...
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What Terry Richardson Tells Me About the Grey Line of Consent
Years ago, a college friend set me up with one of his friends, on the suspicion that we would hit it off, and – more significantly – that this gentleman, being a nicer sort than my usual paramour,...
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If the Government Cares About the Safety of Porn Performers, Why Doesn’t It...
This week, California bill AB 1576 (also known as the condoms in porn bill) passed through the California Senate Labor and Industrial Committee, bringing it one step closer to becoming California law....
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