April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It’s also usually the most strenuous month of classes for me, although this year due to a barrage of midterm papers all due at the same time, that may well have been March instead. So for the most part, I’ll be working on school projects this month instead of [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Survey: Experiences of rape and sexual assault
Posted: April 17, 2010 in FeminismTags: Feminism, rape, rape culture, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month, survey
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Victorian Sensibilities
Posted: April 13, 2010 in Perspectives on Privilege and HistoryTags: asexuality, christina rosetti, clelia mosher, goblin market, michel foucault, romantic friendship, sexual repression, sexuality, Victorian era
The Victorian Era is sometimes considered to have been a more ace-friendly era, what with its apparent presumption that women were all asexual, and the prevalence of romantic friendships. A lot of discourse goes on about how the Victorians were so repressed and prudish, and we shouldn’t at all want to be like them. Michel [...]
How to Seduce an Asexual
Posted: April 4, 2010 in Defining & Conceptualizing, Misunderstandings, Rape Culture, SexualizationTags: asexual, asexuality, rape culture, seduce, seduction, sex with asexual
“Get her a kitty,” C quipped, when I quoted this search term that somebody used to find my blog. (There used to be a website out there called Asexual Porn which mainly featured pictures of cats, but it’s gone now.) I am amused at the idea that somebody out there is seriously trying to seduce [...]
