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it is worth noting how an anti-feminist writer

mild pro-feminist statements Strauss made

but I'm a flavor of feminist with a troubled history within the movement. I am

so perhaps one feminist goal should be to try and understand what

the feminist reaction to Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser was quite

but plenty of feminist discourse never impressed me. In university

loving sons and strong daughters... who find the baggage of the 'feminist'

or can the values of the sex-positive feminist community

…ined in their methods. The community even generates its own well-thought- out internal critiques. I am a sex-positive feminist lecturer and writer. I write primarily about my experiences with sadomasochism, but I have a general interest in sexuality. I first encountered pickup...

positive and feminist messages about sex, my own sexuality remained invisible, bewildering and hard to talk about. When I started having sex around my mid-teens, I liked it -- I liked it a lot -- but it seemed weirdly lacking. I'd never figured out how to masturbate, so I couldn...

…artists emerging in the 1990s, fully aware of their predecessors in art and technology but perhaps more inspired by the feminist founders of the 1970 journal Radical Software and the cultural blast of Donna Haraway’s inspiring 1984 polemic, “A Cyborg Manifesto.” The creaky gender...

Scarleteen.com, a grassroots feminist effort with an amazingly comprehensive perspective. Scarleteen has an incredible impact on many, many lives. Sometimes I read it just for fun! Secondly: it may help not to prioritize orgasms. I am not saying orgasms aren't important; I just...

… up. It increases the urge to go all Sexy Dreamgirl Shell, rather than attempting to communicate. Being a sex-positive feminist, I also sometimes worry that other women will read my work and it will increase their performance anxiety. I worry that writing about some stuff I like...

Firstly, S&Mers and feminists both need to be aware of this emotional and biological phenomenon. It can create a sense of overwhelming intimacy with unexpected partners. And it can be used as a tool by abusers who groom relationships that started consensually into abusive relatio...

Why had I worried? I knew my parents had striven to give me an independent, rational, feminist outlook. Self-esteem and integrity. I was so lucky, I understood as my father said nothing but, "All right.” It was a blinding realization: my father might have judged me with all the w...