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Fucking With Feministing: Vaginal Orgasms

Welcome to the second installment of Fucking with Feministing (check out our first installment here)! This monthly sex advice column is the place where readers get feminist advice on my favorite subject!

By Gwendolyn Beetham • 10 years ago

The Academic Feminist: Maggie Casey

Welcome back, Academic Feminists. Today we are happy to present Maggie Casey, the next interviewee in the Feministing Student Series. This series features the work of college and masters students whose final projects/theses focus on gender and sexuality issues.

Maggie Casey is a recent graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin. With no current plans to return to school she spends most of her time convincing people to move to Baltimore and plotting ways to overthrow the capitalist patriarchy.

Gwendolyn: What is your thesis/final paper about?

Maggie: In our culture we often interpret medical language as neutral terminology describing natural phenomena. So often we overlook both the direct and indirect ways in which culture informs the language that we use, and in turn the ...

By Sesali B. • 10 years ago

Why using lube can help you become a better feminist

My feminism is definitely an intersectional one. I discuss feminist issues as a way to educate, (un)learn, and dissect current cultural understandings of gender. Included in this is an acceptance of sex and sexuality as an endless realm of transformative possibility and opportunity for pleasure. I’ve always said: it’s not feminist if it doesn’t get you off. But so much of what we (Americans) think about sex is caught in limited, male-dominated, and frankly, fictional perceptions of how our bodies should work (because… porn). Our incompetent approach to sex education has done nothing to address one of the most widespread misconceptions, and consequences have been dire. But today I am willing to go where few feminists have gone in ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

According to Apple, “vagina” is inappropriate but “penis” is not

That’s what Justyn Hintze discovered when she bought a new iPad recently and tried to take advantage of the free engraving offered by Apple.

Being a sex-positive feminist, she decided to engrave lyrics from her favorite Alix Olson song: “I’ll give myself a lube job/shake my broomstick til my clit throbs.” Not so fast, according to Apple’s “inappropriate language”-flagging algorithm!

Sensing something fishy, Hintze made some adjustments, which revealed that according to Apple’s standards, “clit” and “vagina” are both inappropriate, while “dick” and “penis” are a-okay. The customer service agent she called about the problem got the same results.

That’s what Justyn Hintze discovered when she bought a new iPad recently and tried to take advantage of the free engraving offered by Apple.

Being a sex-positive feminist, she decided to engrave lyrics from her favorite Alix Olson song: ...