Kink 101
It was Sex Week at Ohio State University last month! We missed it!
It was under the umbrella of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Department.
What is that about? Why are women and sexuality lumped together? Do men have nothing to do with sexuality? It’s hard not to conclude that the lumping together is because women are the consumer good, rather than because men have nothing to do with sexuality. It’s like this, see: when people (i.e. men) think about women they think about sex, so the two go together as an academic department. What non-people (i.e. women) think about when they think about men is of no interest or importance. Disciplines are organized according to what men think about, and women are just the raw material.
Anyway. Sexuality week is guaranteed to be fun and sex-positive.
Student Advocates for Sexual Health Awareness (SASHA) is hosting The Ohio State University’s annual Sex Week! Sex Week is dedicated to creating a judgement-free, inclusive, relatable space for the OSU community to explore sexual health. The week will include presentations and discussions on various topics including sex education, abortion stigma, pleasure, sex work, and more!
With no judgement! Of any kind! Always desirable in an academic setting.
Monday, February 15th
- “Kiss me Thru The Phone: Cybersex during COVID-19” (2:00pm – 3:00pm)
- “Beyond the Gender Binary with Alok” (5:00pm – 6:00pm)
- “The Policy on Our Bodies: A Panel on Current Legislation” (6:00pm – 7:00pm
Tuesday, February 16th
- “They Work Hard for the Money: Sex Work with Dr. Teela Sanders” (3:00pm – 4:00pm)
Who do? Pimps? Pimps don’t work hard for the money.
Friday, February 19th
- “Smashing the Stigma on Sex” (11:00am – 12:00pm)
- “Not Your High School Sex Ed” (2:00pm – 3:00pm)
- “Plan B(ingo)” (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
- “Kink 101” (7:30pm – 8:30pm)
Send your daughter to Ohio State to learn how to love being strangled during sex!
SASHA is a student organization that advocates educating the student body about sexual health in all its forms. Realistic sexual health is interdisciplinary and includes healthy relationships, methods of protection, and STI awareness, gender equality, and body acceptance.
Co-sponsored by The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Feminism? What’s that got to do with anything?
My guess would be that it’s Gender and Sexuality which are lumped together. The “Queer” community is undergoing an internal conflict over whether “kink” gets included. That would be the next step for the rationale which says Transgenderism goes with Same-Sex Attraction because they both involve sexuality which pisses off the Religious Right.
Alok – this Alok? Doesn’t seem wise to centre a male who declares little girls can be “kinky” in your sex week, does it?
https://mobile.twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1368516106520911874
Well, there are plenty of liberal and leftist men who seem to think the whole point of liberalism and women’s rights is to make women more widely sexually available and more accepting of kinks as normal and expected sexual practice. you do see the odd one getting bent out of shape when that turns out not to be the case.
Liberals and leftists are very much at the forefront of the legalise/normalise prostitution for example.
There are indeed, and also many women who agree – like Greta Christina for instance.
I should have known I wasn’t going to last there when Greta scolded Taslima for writing about the exploitation of prostitutes in India and Bangladesh.
Oh, I’d forgotten that one. I think it was about then that my head whiplashed around to GC and I went ‘wut!’
I’m sure all these impoverished Indian and Bangladeshi women and girls just love sex work and think it’s the best ever. Bloody colonial white women trying to get them an education and financial security when they could have so much fun romping around instead. /s
Also it’s Taslima’s part of the world and part of her subject matter, and GC’s not so much, plus there’s the matter of how much Taslima has given up and risked to talk about what she talks about, so all in all, yeah. Made my blood boil.
Isn’t transgenderism dedicated to body denial?
How many Beyond the Gender Binary Aloks can there be?
Wait. Best not answer that.
Yeah, because Greta Christina is definitely not a white western woman who enjoyed sex work telling women in other parts of the world what to do. No, no way. She couldn’t be. She’s woke. She just wants them to be empowered.
I thought she totally lost her mind when that happened. It was…eye opening. (If she opened my eyes, does that make me ‘woke’? Even if she opened my eyes to the opposite truth of the official ‘woke’?)
You remember that too, eh. Seems a lot of us do.
We’ve encountered Alok before:
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2017/the-sorrows-of-young-famous-nonbinary-femmes/
Bloke on the left
Wow, I’m glad I missed that Greta post.
There’s more than one Alok though. I did wonder if it’s that Alok but I don’t know.
Actually, Holms, with me it wasn’t a post. I saw her speak at a convention of freethinkers. I am sure I gasped audibly, and my husband was quite astonished. It doesn’t help that she is always saying “the proof is in the pudding”, and clearly doesn’t understand that she is getting that horribly wrong (it’s one of my lesser favorite of mangled phrases).
#11 Ophelia
I checked, both stories refer to an Alok Vaid-Menon. Plus, the photos.
@ YNNB?, I think by “body acceptance” they mean women accepting their trans identifying male forms without complaint in all circumstances?
Arcadia, yes; accept other people’s bodies everywhere and at all times and in all circumstances. Accept one’s own body? Hah! Don’t be daft!
Indeed.
Holms @ 13 – apologies! I didn’t see any way to check on the Ohio schedule so I left it at that.
On “body acceptance”
Magazines: big breasts are in. Get your nose fixed. Go dad bods. Famous new mother wows with bikini body. Your skin is all wrong – fix it with these creams, lasers and injections.
Men: we like boobs. All boobs. Show them to us. There’s nothing wrong with getting yours fixed. *buys the big boob magazine/porn, tips the busty stripper*
Libfems: getting your boobs fixed is empowering. So is this $100 lipstick. And laser skin stuff. I love these expensive creams, it’s looking after yourself. I also look after myself pole dancing and on Only Fans.
Radfems: if your body is functional, it’s fine the way it is. Don’t get bigger boobs or spend your money on snake oil. You’re already just fine and externally imposed standards of beauty will always be fleeting and ultimately unsatisfying.
Trans: you will all accept my body, whenever, wherever and however I choose to present it. Accepting my body myself means public funding and willing surgeons who will do whatever I want.