Apparently we’re at the cusp of the fourth wave of feminism, with formidable ladies like Amanda Palmer and Malala Yousafzai at the battle front. It’s all a bit tiring, really—to think that after an ocean of feminist thought, we have not yet toppled the old-age patriarchal values which restrict equality. Unfortunately, it’s true: in many…
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I spent the night before my first day of teaching in an excited loop of hushed masturbation on my side of the mattress, never falling asleep. Quite an opening, right? This is how Alissa Nutting’s Tampa begins, plunging the reader straight into the highly sexualised interior monologue of Celeste, a twenty-six year old school teacher….
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I was nine and in my fifth year in elementary school when one day, out of curiosity, I pulled out my mother’s Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and looked up the word ‘sex’. I wish I had spared myself that knowledge for suddenly, my little world took on a harsher hue. The second meaning of the…
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Calling all Lipsters: want to work towards abolishing rape culture with the chance of having your creativity seen? Newcastle-based consent workshop instructor, Nissa Lee of Secret Strength Self Defence is spearheading a grassroots project which aims to do just that. The OK Danger community collaboration of consent inspired artworks is broadly themed around sexual agency…
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Almost every day, junk mail makes its way into my email account, and almost all of it is related to men’s junk. From requests from ‘Adriana <3’ for live sex chats to offers of ‘Free lifetime sex pass (get pussy tonight)’, there is little spam that doesn’t revolve around the male libido. I’m sick of…
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‘…hardcore pornography is now the primary form of sex education in the Western world. This is where teenage boys and girls are “learning” what to do to each other and what to expect when they take each other’s clothes off.’ – Caitlin Moran That’s a pity. Besides finding out what goes where, what use has…
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If no means no and yes means yes, then what about all the tricky little nuances of intimacy that aren’t vocalised? With little discussion on how to communicate consent in wider Australian society, people are attending consent workshops to learn how to say yes, no, maybe and use other methods to assert themselves in their…
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Woman kicked out of uni for being gay now owes college thousands of dollars Danielle Powell was kicked out of her university after officials found out she was dating a woman. Her scholarship to Grace University in the US was also withdrawn as a result of the judicial board hearing that forced her expulsion. Now…
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A recent study from Cornell University, in which 751 college students answered questions on their sexual experience and their views on casual sex, has found that the double standard of women being abhorred for sexual promiscuity and men adored for it still exists. Participants in the research were given narratives of male and female students,…
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Well, if Madonna can sing about it, there’s no reason why the Lip Crew can’t write about it, right? *** ‘At my age it’s uncool to admit my virginity except as a comedic punchline, but I’ve not retained it as any political or religious statement – I simply haven’t found someone with whom I choose…
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Dutch scientist Adriaan Tuiten is close to perfecting the first successful female desire drug that, if approved by the Food and Drug Association, could be available by 2016. It’s the biggest medical breakthrough in women’s sexual liberation since the birth control pill, writes Daniel Bergner for the New York Times. ‘The promise of Lybrido…is that…
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monogamy noun 1. the practice or condition of having only one spouse at a time. 2. the practice of remaining faithful to a single sexual partner. 3. Zoology the habit of having only one mate. 4. the practice of marrying only once during life. [French monogamie] (The Macquarie Dictionary Online © Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd.) Over to you,…
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There is nothing I like to do more than talk. Well, perhaps it’s tied with writing, but on the whole I live to communicate. Having a D&M, a conversation of depth and meaning, is my cup of tea and to a certain extent I like to push the boundaries. So when sitting amongst a co-ed…
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You wake up in the morning and you’re in someone else’s bed. You calculate that there is a 75% chance you will need to vomit within the next hour. You are not sure whether you want to roll over and see the face of the person spooning you and snoring so nonchalantly into the back…
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