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More on Feminism and Asexuality
As I’ve mentioned before, a good number of feminists (particularly those on the more aggressively sex-positive end of it all) have rather a negative knee-jerk reaction condemning asexuality as a whole variety of bad things, from a disorder to flat-out lie or late blooming or whatever on earth else. The actual specific reactions to asexuality [...]
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Sex is Just Sex
There was a post recently on AVEN entitled “The Melancholy of Asexual Feminist,” which covered (guess! guess!) the melancholy of asexual feminists, which is essentially that most contemporary feminists are almost aggressively sex positive, and thus are often hostile to asexuals amongst them because they see us, presumably, as an illustration of that which they’re trying [...]
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Sex Positivity and Asexuality
As a member (if most of that involvement is spent lurking) of a rampantly third wave feminist website dedicated to, as its subtitle-of-sorts will tell you, to “celebrity, sex, fashion for women,” I hear a lot about sex positivity. Or, really liking sex, in any case. From what I’ve seen of the rest of the feminist [...]
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