The Anarcho-Feminist

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I don’t understand why so many people have trouble with the idea that different people can have different opinions about things. “BDSM makes some people happy” and “BDSM makes some people feel violated” are not contradictory statements. Neither are “sex work makes some people feel raped,” “sex work is a job some people love and would rather work than anything else in the world,” and “sex work is another mildly unpleasant thing some people do to put food on the table.” And neither are “makeup makes some people feel empowered” and “makeup hurts some people’s self-esteem.” In a perfect world, people could be left to wear or not wear makeup, have or not have kinky sex, do or not do sex work, as pleases them.

— Other People’s Makeup Use: None Of Your Business – Ozy Frantz’s Blog (via sexisnottheenemy)

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Female fat [as] a moral issue is articulated with words like good and bad. If our culture’s fixation on female fatness or thinness was about sex, it would be private issue between a woman and her lover; if it were about health, between a woman and herself… A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but one about obedience.

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Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth

I’ve always wondered why being fat is bad. Why is it bad? Think about it: why is being not super skinny BAD? Who made it that way?

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Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from having good sex. They keep people from having pride in their sexuality, from sexual self-awareness. They keep people from asking questions about sex, and communicating with their partners. They discourage experimentation. They blur the lines between consensual sex and rape by framing all sex as an undifferentiated mass of “bad.

— Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)

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Nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

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Assata Shakur (via thegoddamazon)

ALWAYS REBLOG.

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*not even Martin Luther King Jr.* if you really think the progress of the Civil Rights Movement was achieved solely by the moral strength of their argument, you were miseducated. you really were.

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flapjackstate:

parkstepp:

Priest says Hell is an invention of the church to control people with fear

It’s not about being religious or non-religious any more, it’s about being human. The more the world grows in chaos, the more we are starting to focus on the peace and light inside everyone.

Incredible video….Now we are beginning to know what is really happening…..Please watch…

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from my sweet friend @marseelee on twitter….

Absolutely amazing.

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And yet in modern American culture, sex is practically the only sin there is. When’s the last time a Christian kid got thrown out of the house because they coveted others’ possessions or they made fun of a homeless person? When’s the last time a Christian lawmaker made hyperbolic, slightly-unhinged-sounding promises to a church group to fight the sin of avarice? When’s the last time churches protested a movie because it depicted violence?

— The Pervocracy: When did “sin” become synonymous with sex? (via sexisnottheenemy)

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[W]hen you teach adults and children sex-negative messages, sex becomes an undifferentiated mass of “wrong.” If all sex is wrong, then why try to tease out good from bad, pleasurable from painful? When students are taught not to think about sex, they aren’t going to spend any time determining what they do and don’t want, or what they might be interested in. Of course, they’re going to have sex eventually, but when it happens will they be able to communicate at all through the veil of guilt, shame, and self-loathing that sex negativity encourage?

— Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via sexisnottheenemy)

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Love this!

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“The Turn Off the Blue Light poster campaign has been designed to challenge the Irish public’s perception of sex workers, to get away from the overly negative or positive images of sex work that are so often seen, and instead show a more balanced, realistic view.”

Turn Off The Blue Light Campaign

http://www.turnoffthebluelight.ie/about/poster-campaign/

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We believe that it is fundamentally a radical political act to deprivatize sex. So much oppression in our culture is based on shame about sex: the oppression of women, of cultural minorities, oppression in the name of the (presumably asexual) family, oppression of sexual minorities. We are all oppressed. We have all been taught, one way or another, that our desires, our bodies, our sexualities, are shameful. What better way to defeat oppression than to get together in communities and celebrate the wonders of sex?

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The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (via loserbuttercup)

YES

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The fact that something is illegal doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily immoral.

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So simple, yet so important.

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A democratic morality should judge sexual acts by the way partners treat one another, the level of mutual consideration, the presence or absence of coercion, and the quantity and quality of the pleasures they provide. Whether sex acts are gay or straight, coupled or in groups, naked or in underwear, commercial or free, with or without video, should not be ethical concerns.

— Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (via rev)

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