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Saints and Sinners: The Madonna-Whore Complex in "Yes, God, Yes
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(Movies)
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... often positioned as either saints or sinners based upon where they fall within the domain of the male gaze. Traditional religious dogma often chastises girls into chastity and directly or indirectly pushes ...
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Created on 04 September 2020
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How Planned Parenthood Is Filling The Sex Education Gaps During Quarantine
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(Sex)
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... of STIs). Lucky for you, there’s a page for that. If you’ve always wondered how to talk STDs or what consent really looks like, they’ve also made a series of videos that model these situations, giving ...
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Created on 16 April 2020
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Soccer Mommy Explores The Passing Of Time On "Color Theory
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(Music)
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... seven-minute “yellow is the color of her eyes,” where she laments being away from her sick mother. Elsewhere on color theory, Allison chastises herself for her inner demons (“lucy”) and beautifully decimates ...
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Created on 15 April 2020
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RBG Perfectly Pointed Out The Problem With Wisconsin Going Forward With The Primary Election
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(Feminism)
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... die. And that's not right.” he said.
Wisconsin currently has 2,440 cases and 83 deaths reported.
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This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard O
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... The ancient historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC), described rites for the Egyptian cat goddess Bast at her main temple at Bubastis. During these ceremonies, men and women rode a barge down the river, ...
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This OB/GYN On TikTok Has No Time For Fake News
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(Feminism)
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... about sex, STIs and STDs, contraceptives and anything else people who write in ask her. The app, most popular with Gen-Z, is premised on short clips of videos filmed and edited by users. Some of the more ...
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Created on 29 January 2020
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Sweet Justice: See How These Seventh Graders Protested for Their Right to Free Period Products
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(Feminism)
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Last Tuesday, a tweet from NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) President Ilyse Hogue went viral after thousands of people online rallied to support a group of seventh graders ...
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Created on 04 November 2019
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The Sexist Way STIs Are Discussed — And Diagnosed
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(Sex)
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... distinction: in heterosexual partners, STIs are more transmittable from the man to the woman than vice versa. All this is to say that this gender bias is not simply social or cultural — it is also medical. ...
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Created on 01 November 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Urges Nancy Pelosi To Respect Newly Elected Women of Color
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(Feminism)
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... chastised the ones who didn’t vote for it. “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she said. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many ...
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Created on 11 July 2019
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Rashida Tlaib And Uncivil Disobedience
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(Feminism)
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... of Tlaib’s language was swift. Pearls have never been clutched so tightly. Republicans and Democrats alike chastised the new representative for her lack of civility. On Fox News, Rep. Joe Manchin (D-West ...
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Created on 14 January 2019
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Is "Toxic Femininity" A Thing
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(Feminism)
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... toxic, although personally, I don’t respect it, and never have. Hotness fades, wisdom grows— wise young women will invest accordingly. Femininity becomes toxic when it cries foul, chastising men for responding ...
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Created on 04 January 2019
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5 Judy Blume Books We Want To See On The Big Screen
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(Books)
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... STIs and consent, girl and boy have sex. They mistake it for love and promise to love each other forever. Girl goes away and realizes she could experience so much more (considerate) dick in her life. After ...
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Created on 09 August 2018
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This Website Gives You the Sex Ed You Never Had
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(Sex)
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... should not just be focused on “the negative aspects of sex, such as preventing STIs, avoiding pregnancies, and overall harm reduction.” Instead, we should be focusing on “sexuality as a normative and positive ...
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Created on 13 July 2018
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The Uncompromising Queer Gaze Of Hayley Kiyoko
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(Music)
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... music industry has a history of festishizing queerness, with depictions of queer women often catering to a straight, male gaze. Most recently, Rita Ora’s new single “Girls”—an “anthem of empowerment” with ...
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Created on 09 July 2018
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Are Blood Tests For Herpes Useful? A Sexologist Answers
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(Sex)
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... Avoiding sex? It’s a good idea to think this through so you’re prepared to have the necessary conversations if you do find you’re an asymptomatic carrier. Herpes is one of the STIs that may be passed in ...
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Created on 14 May 2018
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Why I Needed "A Wrinkle In Time
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(Movies)
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Created on 21 March 2018
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Sex Ed Should Teach Girls About Sexual Pleasure
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(Sex)
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... pregnancy, the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world. In schools that teach abstinence-only education, the rates of STIs and unwanted pregnancy are not reduced, ...
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Created on 20 February 2018
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How Risky Are Blowjobs Without Condoms?
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(Sex)
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... of STIs. Any penis coming into contact with any mucous membrane (oral, anal, vaginal, or whatever you would prefer to term that bodily region) runs the risk of passing on sexually transmitted infections ...
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Created on 05 February 2018
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The Secret Lives Of The Ziegfeld Follies, "The Most Beautiful Girls In The World
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(Living)
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... a well-known fact in the 1930s (after all, it was a popular medicine for STIs!). Yet Jack forced eggs, milk, butter, and glass after glass of water down Olive, all in what he claimed was a vain attempt ...
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Created on 22 November 2017
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This Woman Wants To Inspire Other People With Herpes To "Live Out Loud
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(Sex)
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... groups on Facebook for HSV+ people or dating apps just for people with STIs, Wilson doesn’t really see the need for them. “I don’t think we need to be in a hidden Facebook group,” she states. “I don’t ...
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