Aug 162023
- Puritanism is a sociopolitical stance that cuts across the usual political boundaries in the USA and can unite strange bedfellows. Most media attention has gone to right-wing puritanism (e.g. transphobia, no-fap incels, etc) over the last decade, but there’s also an active progressive/leftist strain of puritanism. Vox describes how online fandoms, which were once vibrant communities of sexual experimentation, succumbed to puritanical anti-fandoms. The generation that has been brought up with greater access to sexually explicit media than ever before is dusting off old feminist debates about pornography and sexuality.
- The Sex and Psychology podcast explores the new frontier of sex doll brothels.
- The Discourses of Suffering blog explores the story of Saint Jerome and how he was held captive and tormented by a woman with erotic strangulation. The original Latin of the text is much more sexually explicit.
- In Poland, a conservative minister is using an academic study on transfemininity and sadomasochism as an excuse to change how the government distributes research grants. He calls it “nonsense and pseudoscience”. In other words, trans people and kinky people are being dragged into the culture war.
- In the US, recent Supreme Court decisions allow businesses to discriminate on the basis on sexual orientation. NCSF has tells how a swinger company lost their event hotel without explanation.
- Swingers can also get in trouble with jobs requiring security clearances, despite official claims that they don’t care about people’s sex lives.
