Know what Women Want

Who do you fantasise about when the light are off, when you think about sex, what do you really really want? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Sexual fantasies of women from around the world, are all extraordinary, full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and ultimately liberation.  From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who … Continue reading Know what Women Want

Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

Comedian and podcaster Sofie Hagen had not had sex in 3,000 days ( and counting), and it turns out, she’s not the only one…. Her attempts to find out why we’re not having the sex we want, Sofie asked the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where’s the radical sexual liberation we were promised? What are we going to do about this? How do you overcome being a 35- year-old virgin ( when it come to queer sex, that is)? How do the socially awkward and the neurodiverse have sex? “ I … Continue reading Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

Design of intimacy and desire are changing as more women watch porn

/ Porn is an inescapable part of the environment we all share and should be talked about honestly. Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray is one of the leading feminist academics working on sexual violence and she has a decade’s experience in the frontline anti-violence against women movement. When we think about porn today, we still mostly think about men. Men as the producers, and the consumers. Women as the product. Most women aren’t talking  to each other about what they do and don’t do with porn- not really.  And when we do talk about it, we are divided into unhelpful binaries. Porn … Continue reading Design of intimacy and desire are changing as more women watch porn