sex and sexuality
Articles about sex, gender and sexuality.
Your Knife in my Life
tale of toil by linda thomas
Having been sick a lot as a child, I developed a great rapport with my doctor. We talked about everything, including sex, and because I was sexually active, I point blank asked my doctor for birth control when I was 14 years old. He gave it to me because he had expressed concern for my future. He was afraid that I might become trapped into teen motherhood.
Kelly Girl Plays Postmistress
fiction by kelly girl
It was Kelly's first day working at VentureTech, Inc., and she hoped it would be her last. The place had a funny feel about it. There were a lot of Enlightened Management amenities, like good coffee, abstract floral prints on the walls, and comfort rooms with futons. But there was something creepy about how all that enlightened male niceness came across.
Poles 'n Holes: Working in the Porn Biz
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
I was broke. Dead busted. I needed a job—fast. And the first that came along was at the Back Door Theater, "Parking and Entrance in the Rear—for Your Privacy." My friend Russell was working there, and he got me a job after one of his fellow employees passed out on the pool table at the bar next to the theater during a shift. Calling the Back Door (BD) a "theater" was something of a misnomer.
Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
"In this prostituting society, we ALL have to hustle, and I'd rather suck cock than kiss ass!"
— Margo St. James
Whatever Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
article by maxine holz
What would a future anthropologist make of the bizarre and seemingly contradictory assortment of information on sexuality available today?
Processed World #18
Issue 18: December 1986 from http://www.processedworld.com
Talking Heads
(Introduction)
This, the seventh issue of Processed World, is the first to be created in our new home—a basement in a Victorian in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
Neither womyn nor patriarch - Olias
Article exploring notions of gender and sex by someone rejecting their biological sex, together with editorial comments by the Troploin collective on the historical emergence of 'gender'.
Neither Womyn nor Patriarch, by Olias (2005)
Alice in monsterland - Troploin
The Troploin collective discuss the relationship between adults, children and capital.
Alice is in trouble.1
- 1. This is an abridged and modified version of Autre Temps, written in French by J.-P. Carasso, G.Dauve, D.Martineau, K.Nesic, published by troploin, May 2001, and available on the troploin website. See also For a World Without Moral Order.
Moral Disorder - Gilles Dauvé
English translation of the preface to the Swedish edition of For A World Without Moral Order.
So far, this text and a couple of others on similar issues1
- 1. “For a World without Moral Order” was first published in French in La Banquise #1, 1983, and then in English (translated by M.
