- 1. Two New Essay Collections, "Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be" and "On Freedom," Examine American Culture and If Freedom Truly Exis
- (Books)
- ... hilarity and sincerity is her greatest skill as a writer. Even as she pokes fun at her love of white boys and gently drags her teen self for writing a poem about losing her virginity (it’s a feast of food ...
- Created on 08 October 2021
- 2. Can "Mindful Masturbation" Help You Heal From Rape and Sexual Trauma
- (Sex)
- ... as though when the perpetrator took my virginity, he took my body with him too. It felt as if suddenly, my body was no longer mine to control, but rather a slab of meat that was used to be groped and gawked ...
- Created on 15 September 2021
- 3. Hole’s Courtney Love, Melissa Auf der Maur, and More to Perform at Planned Parenthood Benefit
- (Entertainment)
- On March 14th at Town Hall in New York City, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and The Feminist Institute are hosting a benefit concert for gender equality and access to sexual and reproductive ...
- Created on 19 February 2020
- 4. Kotex New Ads To Depict Period Blood As It Really Is: Red
- (Feminism)
- ... of the month comes for all women and that’s not something to be ashamed about. Top Photo still courtesy Kotex/Instagram More From BUST States Are Calling To Ban Virginity Testing, But What’s ...
- Created on 18 February 2020
- 5. States Are Calling To Ban Virginity Testing, But What’s Up With This Barbaric Practice In The First Place?
- (Feminism)
- Virginity testing. It sounds like something that would only exist in the Middle Ages along with iron chastity belts and a variety of other ancient, misogynistic practices. But, as T.I. reminded us back ...
- Created on 07 February 2020
- 6. Why Women Are Rejecting the Term "Anti-Aging
- (Living)
- ... divine feminine by her virginity, not her worldly experience. The shift to a patriarchal worldview had devastating consequences for women's self-esteem — and their pocketbooks. Women still earn only $.79 ...
- Created on 22 November 2019
- 7. What Kristen Stewart's Latest Interview Can Teach Us About Sexuality, Careers, and Growing U
- (Movies)
- ... More from BUST What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginity On Miley Cyrus And The Way We Talk About Pansexuality "Lizzie" Retells The Lizzie Borden Story With A Feminist Twist—But Doesn' ...
- Created on 04 September 2019
- 8. Women In Medicine Are Bringing Time’s Up To The Healthcare Industry
- (Feminism)
- ... comments about their bodies, sex lives, fertility plans, and loss of virginity while at work. Jessi Gold, who is now an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, remembers an emergency room hazing experience ...
- Created on 28 February 2019
- 9. What "Twilight" Taught Us About Sex And Virginit
- (Movies)
- ... their characters ever went on a date. In looking back on the films, it becomes impossible not to see all the backwards notions around sex and virginity the films and books were feeding our romance-crazed ...
- Created on 05 December 2018
- 10. "Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers' Rights" Is A Must-Read For All Feminist
- (Books)
- ... or precious to be sold, which perpetuates puritanical views of sex and virginity. Younger feminists are developing more open-minded views of sex work, which the authors connect to “hook-up culture” and ...
- Created on 14 November 2018
- 11. Week Of Women: November 2-8, 2018
- (Entertainment)
- ... tackles ideas about women, sex, and lying—about orgasms, about virginity, about sexual experience—in this nonfiction book. How To Be Alone If You Want To, And Even If You Don't by Lane Moore Writer/comedian/musician ...
- Created on 01 November 2018
- 12. Whatever Happened To Those Girls Who Signed "Purity Pledges"? Hint: It's Not Go
- (Sex)
- ... statistics, the average American loses their virginity at around 17. But between 1994 and 2004, as many as 2.5 million American youth signed abstinence pledges, promising to abstain from sex before marriage. ...
- Created on 10 April 2018
- 13. Indian Activists Are Fighting To End Virginity Tests
- (Feminism)
- ... was recently used by activist Vivek Tamaicheker in an interview with BBC News to describe the ethos around virginity testing in his nomadic Kanjarbhat community in Western India. Perhaps self-explanatory, ...
- Created on 05 February 2018
- 14. 7 Weird Historical Hangover Cures (Including A Hanged Person's Skull
- (Living)
- ... was losing his virginity), but the method that Charles used to help abate his headache and woozy stomach was a little, er, unorthodox. Respected 17th-century physician Dr. Jonathan Goddard suggested ...
- Created on 04 December 2017
- 15. Kelly Oxford Proves Why The Keyboard (And Twitter) Is Mightier Than The Sword: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... who they are and why don’t I know who I am?’” Oxford also recently wrote a movie script, All the Way, a comedy about a pact between high school girls to lose their virginity. The film is being produced ...
- Created on 07 August 2017
- 16. How An Anti-Choice Clinic Bullied And Lied to Me
- (Living)
- ... me to seek what she called a "second virginity." I told her I hadn't consented to this sex, but she didn't seem to care. Finally she gave me a Styrofoam coffee cup and pointed the way to a bathroom. Behind ...
- Created on 27 April 2017
- 17. In YA Lit, Teen Girls Have GREAT Sex Lives — Here's Why That Matter
- (Books)
- ... in her navigation of sex and romantic relationships. Virginity is not a high priority for Feyre, whose life is consumed with drudgery and worry. She has regular trysts with a local farmer, sex that means ...
- Created on 22 March 2017
- 18. A Romanian-Born, Texas-Raised Woman’s Pledge in Trump’s America: Keep Fighting for Better Sex Ed
- (Sex)
- ... is a moral utopia to most GOP politicians. Thoughts about how virginity was compared to a cookie not to be crumbled, a gift to be re-wrapped, and a sticky note in my abstinence-only sex education growing ...
- Created on 01 December 2016
- 19. We Need To Talk About 'The Other Virginity
- (Sex)
- Jane The Virgin I lost my virginity at 19, but I didn’t experience an orgasm with a partner until after three more years of college, a cross-country children’s theatre tour during which I spent a lot ...
- Created on 11 October 2016
- 20. How I Learned To Love My Vagina
- (Sex)
- via Etsy/knickerrocker Hey there, We’ve been through a lot, you and I. With so many young women getting plastic surgery to alter the appearance of their vaginas (often due to the misogynistic beauty ...
- Created on 04 October 2016
