Female Sexuality

Warning: Explicit Sexual Content

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.25.2012

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Ann Bauer

It's an odd animal: women's literary fiction -- NOT erotica -- with a brazen, sensual and deeply flawed main character. Carmen is perpetually concerned with, touching and baring her body. Yet the sex never becomes the story; it isn't that sort of book.

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Why So Many Films Are Exploring Female Sexuality

The New York Times | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Females in Film, Hysteria, Films, Elles, 2 Days in New York, Female Characters, Female Sexuality, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lena Dunham Girls, Women News

"THE plague of our times," a character declares in "Hysteria," Tanya Wexler's new romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian Eng...

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What Causes Gay Guilt And Sexual Shame? Explanations From Carlin Ross

Jincey Lumpkin | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Homosexuality, Gay Guilt, Sexual Shame, Homophobia, Female Sexuality, Women and Sex, Promiscuity, Sexuality, Lesbian, Slut Shaming, Gay Shame, Gay Voices News
Jincey Lumpkin

Lately I have really been deconstructing my views on sexuality to get to the bottom of why women are treated unfairly. I've invited back the gorgeous sex educator Carlin Ross to help me break down my issues.

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Can Prostitution Be Empowering?

HuffingtonPost.com | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.03.2012

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"They don’t think they are prostitutes," said Małgorzata Szumowska, the Polish director and co-writer of the new film "Elles," which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, of the women this movie is, at least in part, about. "Absolutely not. For them it is dating."

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How To Properly Spank A Nun

Mark Morford | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Priests, Female Sexuality, Leadership Council of Women Religious, Nuns, Catholic Oppression, Pope Benedict XVI, Gender and Religion, Religion News
Mark Morford

Until recently, I had not the slightest clue as to what American nuns did all day. Delivering meals to the poor. Knitting giant crucifix cozies. No idea. Until now. Until I discovered that a great many American nuns have been actively and frequently pissing off the Vatican.

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Foreign Film That Gets Real About Female Sexuality

Slate | Posted 04.04.2012

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A young blond girl with immaculate bone structure lies on the linoleum of her single mother's kitchen floor, a man's voice chirping from the phone pie...

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Turn Me On, Dammit Celebrates Horny Girls

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Norwegian Cinema, Adolescence, Entertainment News Indie Film, Bullying, Helene Bergsholm, Female Sexuality, Turn Me on Dammit, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, Entertainment News
Erica Abeel

Rabid horniness is the default state of fifteen-year-old Alma, whose fantasies range from romantic encounters with cute schoolmate Artur, to down-and-dirty daydreams about practically everybody she encounters in her small town in the Norwegian boonies.

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What Bella And Katniss Say About Female Sexuality

Salon | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Narrative on Women, Twilight, Katniss Everdeen, Female Sexuality, Sexual Politics, The Hunger Games, Bella Swan, Women News

If there were ever a good time to be a young woman, this isn't it. As if a massive backlash against contraception and sexual freedom, a recession and ...

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The Best Reason Yet To Exercise

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 03.19.2012

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Do you really have to do those much-touted kegel exercises? Not necessarily, new research claims. According to a recent study, the only fitness regime...

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6 Reasons Why You May Not Be Enjoying Sex

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.16.2012

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Dr. Logan Levkoff

There are lots of women engaging in sex (of all kinds) but not having pleasurable experiences. That seems silly to me.

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Fertility And Me

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.14.2012

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Toni Nagy

There is an expiration date on my uterus, a "sell by" number on my sexuality and not much I can do to prolong it.

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Why Women Need to Go H.A.M. for Their Reproductive Health

Danielle Moodie-Mills | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Women and Politics, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Contraception, Women's Health, Contraception, Women's Movement, Female Sexuality, Women News
Danielle Moodie-Mills

I thought a slut was a woman who allowed anybody access to her body. But isn't that what conservatives are advocating -- that women just lie down, shut up and allow the government to have their way with us?

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What Ever Happened to the Female Orgasm?

The Brown Daily Herald | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Female Body Image, Female Sexuality, Female Orgasm, Women's Body Image, Women's Health, Sex, Orgasm, Sexuality, College News
The Brown Daily Herald

Life is too short for bad sex. We need to stop fearing our bodies and start learning about them. We all deserve three unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of sexual pleasure.

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The War on Sex: The Contraception Controversy's Hidden Agenda

Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012

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Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.

The Republicans and other social conservatives arguing for contraception and abortion restrictions may reject Limbaugh's phrasing, but they are nevertheless supporting policies that, as one Alabama legislator put it, are "designed to humiliate women."

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Back to the Future

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Social Purity, Contraception, Women's Suffrage, Birth Control, Female Sexuality, Margaret Sanger, Comstock, Anti-Contraception, Culture News
Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

What's it all about? From 1914 until the eve of the Second World War, Margaret Sanger and her allies fought and won the battle to make contraception widely available in the United States. Didn't they?

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Unorthodox? Try This: A Young Hasidic Wife Breaks With Her Tradition, Writes Tell-All Book

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.25.2012

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Jesse Kornbluth

"I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive," she writes. And what was she taught? In the slow-track classes for girls, nothing very academic, for a girl could realistically have no higher destiny than marriage at 17 and motherhood a year later.

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Do Women Really Hate Porn? An Interview With Carlin Ross

Jincey Lumpkin | Posted 04.17.2012

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Jincey Lumpkin

Once, when I was growing up, my mom found a porn video hidden in the house. She took the VHS tape out onto the driveway and made us watch while she smashed it to pieces with a hammer. It's safe to say that a lot of women hate porn. But why?

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This Word Doesn't Belong in Your Sex Life

Brenna Cammeron | Posted 04.09.2012

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Brenna Cammeron

I try to explain my sensuous after-work activities to a friend, I sound more like I have a penchant for erotic massage than hibiscus shampoo.

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Fear Factor: The Religious Right's Problem With Women

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.01.2012

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Dr. Peggy Drexler

What is it about women that the men of deeply conservative religions find so threatening? What runs so deep that it justifies traumatizing an innocent eight-year-old like Naama Margolese in Beit Shemesh?

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Are You 'Shameless' Enough to do What This Woman Did?

Amy Shiner | Posted 01.28.2012

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Amy Shiner

"Shameless" not only promotes sexual satisfaction in the sense of being in tune with your sexual needs and your sexual partner -- it also promotes loving the body for what it is.

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'Comfort Sex': Is It A Bad Thing?

Jill Di Donato | Posted 01.28.2012

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Jill Di Donato

Have you ever gotten that craving for sex, but not for the usual reasons? After a particularly rotten date, a silly fight with one of my best friends,...

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Smart Sex Education For Women? There's An App For That

Nora Bass | Posted 01.18.2012

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Nora Bass

Vixely is a new interactive web app optimized for the tablet with digital, curated content about sex and dating from vetted authors, experts and peers.

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Gay Guilt: How I Lost My Virginity And Why It Still Bothers Me

Jincey Lumpkin | Posted 01.16.2012

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Jincey Lumpkin

All of my formative sexual encounters were with guys. Thanks to a string of boyfriends all over the world from England to Tennessee, I never lacked in male affection. I became very good at faking it.

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Blaming Good Girls for Going Bad. Really?

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.10.2012

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Soraya Chemaly

There's Dakota Fanning...'going bad' so Marc Jacobs can sell some perfume. It smells great, by the way. Why did she do that? I mean, she was SUCH A NI...

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I Should Want My Husband More

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Sex Journals, Healthy Sex Life, Love & Sex, Women's Health, Better Sex Life, Huffpost Women Sex Journals, Sex Life, Female Sexuality, Sex Diaries, Women News

The author of our first sex journal is in her forties, married, works full-time, has two children, and lives in New York City. Monday It's been ...

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