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RE: JENNAMARBLES’ “SLUT EDITION”… (by lacigreen)

Sally has a problem. Sally is a music slut. She plays with everyone. She has two regular bands, and some sidemen she jams with.When parties get late and loud, she will pull out her instrument and jam with people she just met, people she hardly knows, people whose names she cannot remember - or never knew! She plays for money, she plays for beer, sometimes she even plays just to get an audience, because she likes the attention.

‘Toward a performance model of sex’ by Thomas Macaulay Millar

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

lostgrrrls:

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hostilemakeover:

Papers are refusing to run this week’s Doonsbury. It should be seen.

It’s good to know that there are newspapers that have carried it.

Like I said yesterday. I love Doonesbury. I love that they are not afraid to take on big topics. I was impressed with how they handled MST. That papers won’t run this is shameful.

They can run articles and editorials about the legislation, but a cartoon depicting the results is TOO MUCH.

LA Times is running it… In the editorial section.

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Who Am I?: "Self Respect" - opinions on slut shaming. →

helloitsimi:

It really annoys me how some people look down on others (especially, but not specifically limited to, women) because of perceived promiscuity. I myself, am not that partial to wearing little clothing or having lots of intimate partners, but that does not mean, in any way, that I am somehow better than people who do show off skin and have many partners. If a person wishes to dress in wonderful little outfits, and have consensual sex with many people; that is their own choice and has nothing to do with you. I hate people who judge others because of how they dress and if they have “been around”. Someone does not become any less of a person if they have been with many people, they aren’t somehow of less value if they aren’t “pure” - unlike some social ideals like to make us believe. I refuse to be told my worth lies in the number of people I have been with or how I dress; as a human being, I am aware my value lies far far deeper than that.

I judge someone’s worth by their actions which matter, their integrity, not their amount of partners.

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In Their Own Words: What Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Say: Contain Medically Inaccurate Information and Distort Facts

Below are examples of what young people are taught in some of the most commonly used abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula. Prior to Fiscal Year 2010, the federal government had spent over one billion dollars on abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. All of the examples come from curricula that were used in programs previously supported by federal funds.

“AIDS can be transmitted by skin-to-skin contact.”

Reasonable Reasons to Wait, Teacher’s guide, Unit 5, pg. 19

(In truth: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be transmitted only through direct exchange of bodily fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or breast milk.)

“Cervical cancer is positively correlated with promiscuous behavior and kills approximately 5,000 women a year.”

RRTW, Student Workbook, p. 119

“Any kind of sexual activity can spread STDs from one person to another.”

Game Plan, Coach’s Clipboard, p. 32

“Condoms are hailed today as the answer to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unwanted pregnancies. The facts are, however, that condoms don’t always prevent pregnancy and are ineffective against some of the most common, and most serious, STDs, such as human papilloma virus.”

Game Plan, Student Workbook, p. 36

(In fact, the most recent research available suggests that young women who use condoms are 70% less likely to contract HPV.)

Anakin's Dream: LOST: SELF-RESPECT (REBLOG FOR SIGNAL BOOST) →

gublerwood:

I don’t know, you guys. I’m really at a loss here. I can’t find my self-respect. It seems I have misplaced it. Here’s a photo of me with my self-respect fully intact:

See? Look at how happy I look? I’m fully clothed and you can just see the self-respect radiating off of me.

But somewhere in between that picture being taken and this picture being taken….

My self-respect seems to have vanished… And I’m getting really worried because I’m starting to think I’ve become a little bit of a slut? I looked up the symptoms of being a slut and I have them all:

sudden awareness of control over one’s body

sudden awareness of control over one’s sexuality

sudden awareness of control over one’s sex life

sudden awareness of rights over one’s mind and body

consensually taking part in sexual activities with one or more partners

And I won’t even go on with the list because there are just too many symptoms that prove that I’ve become a slut :( I really don’t know what happened. Ever since I lost my self-respect, my life has just become an abyss and I’ve just become this really terrible person with a really terrible life and I just want to find my self-respect so I can once again lead a fulfilling life. I want to be pure once more. I want to feel whole.

Please, if you have any information of any sort on where my self-respect might have gone, feel free to call me at 1-800-INTERNALISED-MISOGYNY

Or try me on my cell

1-800-I-LOVE-SLUT-SHAMING

Thank you for your time.

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Sex-positivity is the belief that sex and sexiness are… okay. It’s the belief that people shouldn’t be judged by the sex they have. It’s the belief that consent matters and social norms do not. It’s the belief that porn and erotica are valid media of expression (not that the current porn industry is hunky-dory, cause it’s not) and that sex work ought to be just work (not that it currently is). It’s the belief that neither “slut” nor “prude” should be an insult. It’s the belief that every sexual and gender identity is valid.

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I have often found that when people find out that I’m bisexual they think that it’s ‘hot’, that I must like threesomes. If I make out with a girl in public, guys seem to think that it is for their benefit. They think it is okay to hit on me, even if I indicate I’m not interested. They wouldn’t do that if I was making out with a guy. I was even sexually assaulted in a queer club because a guy saw me making out with a girl and assumed he had the right to my body. My sexuality has nothing to do with anyone else unless I want it to. Female sexuality is not solely for the pleasure and benefit of men, regardless of what porn may lead you to believe.

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It’s not just porn. It’s that some girls will make out with other girls for attention, and it is for the entertainment of the males in the room. And you know what? It sucks. Its disgusting. But it happens. And it confuses some guys. Obviously a dude who walks up to a girl and thinks he has a right to grab her isn’t completely blameless, but we have to take into account that some girls are sluts, and he didn’t know any better.

If you want to stop this particular behavior from certain types of guys, you have to stop the attention-whoring from certain types of girls.

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Wow

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