It started with a preoccupation with sex toys- anything phallic in shape or vagina sleeve-y in nature- and mainly a burning desire to see the words "vagina sleeve" in print. To publish real words about sex, that was the desire that so often throws dildos into The Campanil and by turns launched this humble blog.
When we talk about sex, it shocks us, maybe makes us blush, or laugh, or feel a secret little "whooosh" to you-know-where, but the urge behind it is as mundane as grocery shopping, as natural as the kink in our pubic hair.
We all talk about it- so why not share and explore our feelings and experiences, questions, criticisms, rave reviews, diatribes, or whatever it is about our bodies and the sexy things we do with them that makes us tick, among our own sexy and savvy community- online?
Our sexualities, attraction, arousal, activity and release- they can make us feel pleasure, intimacy, power. There is power in ruling your own body, power in giving yourself pleasure and there is an exchange or exertion of power in sex between human beings. Likewise, these interactions and even conversations about them are controlled by an external power, whether you call it social mores and cultural "respectability," a sex-obsessed conservative agenda (see Bill O'Reilly) or whoever is making the laws now.
Sex laws- they keep our official appearance Protestant-respectable, our moralists influential and our censors in business, but they also serve to manage and limit our access to a still-uncharted world of sexual power, or protect us from being consumed by it. Along with the positives we take from sex, we are susceptible to the dark side- exploitation, feelings of pain, shame, isolation.
Sex laws continuously evolve as power to define sex and obscenity, even control bodies, trades hands and passes through generations, and must adapt with breathtaking speed as the technology of sex evolves and explodes faster than our fantasies can generate it.
This is a space to speak truth to power in a non-judgemental, pan-sexual, queer-inclusive, sex-positive, supportive, youthful and semi-anonymous environment, however we choose to create it. Our goal is for this blog to be a safe resource for Mills community members to discuss, learn, question, celebrate and self-express.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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