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By Brittany Allen | October 25, 2024

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

How America’s Sex Education—and Oversexed Culture—Continues to Fail Women

Natalie Lampert on Moving the Conversation About Controlling Women’s Bodies Beyond Abortion

By Natalie Lampert | July 19, 2024

How Candida Royalle Redefined the Role of Women in Porn

How Candida Royalle Redefined the Role of Women in Porn

Jane Kamensky on the Making of Adult Entertainment's Leading Feminist Performer and Advocate

By Jane Kamensky | March 27, 2024

Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Lit Hub’s Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

The History of, the Study of, the Writing of, and Just Doing It

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2023

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These are the best lines from all the PRH-S&S antitrust trial erotic fiction on the internet.

By Molly Odintz | August 10, 2022

Why a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Porn Industry Is the Feminist Film I Needed

Why a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Porn Industry Is the Feminist Film I Needed

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By Laura Valenza | July 7, 2022

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What Pornographic Literature Shows Us About Human Nature

By Kathleen J. Woods | February 23, 2022

What Does "NSFW" Mean in the Age of Social Media?

By Susanna Paasonen, Kylie Jarrett, and Ben Light | November 8, 2019

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

By Saskia Vogel | July 12, 2019

The Intersectionality Wars: Does the Term Even Mean Anything Anymore?

The Intersectionality Wars: Does the Term Even Mean Anything Anymore?

Jennifer C. Nash on the Labor of Black Feminists

By Jennifer C. Nash | January 7, 2019

Men of a Certain Age: On Sex, Privacy, and Pornography

Men of a Certain Age: On Sex, Privacy, and Pornography

"They Say We Get the Porn We Deserve"

By Saskia Vogel | February 23, 2018

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Katie MacBride on Guns, De-Escalation, and the Need for Funding

By Katie MacBride | June 21, 2017

The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

On Polyamory, Silicon Valley, and the Investigations of Emily Witt

By Dion Kagan | March 15, 2017

Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

From Virginia Woolf to Betty Friedan to Audre Lorde...

By Rebecca Solnit | March 8, 2017

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 15, 2016

The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric

The Life and Times of a True American Moral Hysteric

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Tries to Censor All the Mail in America

By Devin Leonard | May 2, 2016