Sex
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Consent isn’t rocket science
For this month’s Mother of Goo, I felt like getting back down to basics: consent.
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Turning an old trope on its head
In 2021, Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language drama
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The value of informed decisions
Only 57 per cent of young Canadians say the sex education they received at school was or will be useful, according to a study published last year.
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Ecosexuality: I kiss the ground I walk upon
Performance artist and sexologist Annie Sprinkle and her partner, University of California art-department chair and professor Beth Stephens, are credited with popularizing what is recognized today as ecosexuality.
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Turning 24
January 2023 hit like a ton of bricks, and something else is on the way: my 24th birthday.
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The cost of commodifying pleasure
It was blue, sparkly, worn like a Finger Monster and possibly bought at a gas station.
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Pleasure is power
I first wrote about pleasure activism in September of 2020 for my first Mother of Goo column.
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Grey areas
My sister and I call them “grey areas.”
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Pop my cherry!
Virginity is a loaded word.
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Sex work laws in Canada reek of moralism
The term “prostitute/prostitution” is used in Canadian law, but the preferred terminology is sex worker/sex work.
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Gets her salad tossed
In the shower, high on psilocybin, I ate ass for the first time.
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HIV disclosure laws in Canada hurt more than they protect
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can develop into AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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Cyber sex
Cyber sex is an entirely different buffet selection than in-person canoodling.
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Klinic on campus returns
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought “unprecedented times” for everyone, students at every age were (and are) especially impacted.
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‘Just have a glass of wine’
I made the appointment to talk about other kinds of pain.
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Stigmata: stigma’s origin in religious ecstasy
The word “stigma” comes from a Latin word meaning that a person is marked or branded.
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White frenemy
Let’s call him Tony. He called me a close friend. He was older, almost 40.
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Against caution
Recently, I took one of my procrastination plunges into YouTube and watched the latest video from my favourite channel, Oh Stephco!
In it, Stephanie, a Black woman in her late 30s, gives frank and funny anecdotes about navigating a world that does not always value her.
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So you have an STBBI. I love you.
At one of the local clinics where I work, we have a sign that says “Shame Free Zone.”
STBBI stands for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. Just like there are various types of STBBIs, there are also various ways to both transmit and pick them up. Stigma around STBBIs is still rampant today.
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Subspace
In Hitoshi Matsumoto’s 2013 R100, a Japanese BDSM action comedy, protagonist Takafumi Katayama is eating his sushi dinner in a quiet restaurant, when a latex-clad dominatrix appears beside him. He looks up at her nervously, with reverence.
