#sex liberation movement

[d1sc01nf3rn0]

Rant regarding the whole gen z study thing and sex in media:

If you already know that the argument conservative and far right momevents most commonly use, is that everything remotely related to the LGBTQ community is inherently sexual, and therefore should not be around minors. Why, by that logic, would you start arguing that all sex representation in media is perverse, unnecessary, and should be eradicated? What do you think is going to end happening? What do you think is going to happen to diverse representation in media?

I'm gen z too, older gen z, and a lesbian; so I suppose that a lot of the younger generations may not know what it is like to grow up with your identity being considered a sexual topic, and therefore have 0 actual resources or representation about it outside adult content.

The only reason we're at the point LGBTQ kids can be it more openly, is because we

stopped sexualizing it, even if we're still working on it

started visibilizing LGBTQ relationships and people on media

started normalizing sex, and all that comes with it (dealing with misoginy, sex education, resources, etc)

Not saying that kids should go watch Euphoria or something; I'm just saying that when they reach the point when they start to think about their sexuality, there should be stuff available that isn't purely educational. You forget that for a lot people, series, games, movies, etc, are the only resource they have. I had to learn that I was a lesbian by watching the L world at 14. And I had to watch it on a pirated site at a friend's house. I didn't know lesbians were a thing that existed, I was a Mexican kid that came from working class with an homophobic mother.

Just a few weeks ago, my hometown canceled a drag story hour reading event at a book fair. Why? Because conservatives and far right weirdos consider everything related to the community to be a perverse sexual deviation, and that includes drag too, and argue that we should be at clubs, not around kids. None of the drag queens that were going to read had ever done an adult show at a club mind you. All of them focused their work on activism, so their presentations were at activism related events as masters of ceremony. They didn't care about that.

SheRa and the princesses of power is literally rated M18 in some countries, and 7+ in others. You can guess why. That's what we're going to end up with. Stop being naive and pretend that media with LGBTQ characters aren't going to be the most affected with this argument. Stop pretending that conservative weirdos aren't going to use you as cannon fodder on their censorship crusade, and that you're not giving it to them on a silver plate. Let's not forget how episodes from Steven Universe, a show with ZERO mention of sex, had episodes pulled in some countries just because of homophobia. If you put anything remotely related to sex under a 18+ classification, what do you thing is going to happen? Where will teenagers go when they want to know stuff? We're still dealing with a generation that went on p0rn sites instead of getting sexual education, and we know how that goes. You don't want that.

And ffs, those classifications exist for a reason. Learn about them, make parents learn about them. Our generation had kids watching awful stuff on the internet due to a lack of supervision and content awareness. The amount of kids that watched Squid Game in my country is absurd. I've seen game developers on Twitter complain about how platforms like Steam give their games a lower classification to sell more, and how they keep fighting for their games to be given the proper one. Change that, inform yourself, educate other people, hold companies accountable; don't watch a 18+ rated movie, and then complain that it has stuff that's not suited for kids. Be a better parent/caregiver/sibling/teacher/etc.

Part of the problem is that lot of other older gen z have unrealistic ideas of what content is oriented to teenagers, and what content teenagers actually want. They're mostly using Euphoria as an example. Euphoria is not a series oriented for teenagers, nor is it something they watch. Someone even mentioned Skins, and it ended up before a lot of the gen z even became teens.

Teenagers now are watching things like Hearstopper. The Heartstopper comic has a chapter where someone goes to buy condoms with their friends, since they spent multiple times considering having sex with their partner. It's a topic that is covered in multiple chapters and talks a lot about having safe sex, waiting for when you're ready, etc. That is such an IMPORTANT and NECESSARY topic for teenagers to about, that older generations never had the chance to see.

And if at this point your counterargument is "well, is not about the sex is about how it's portrayed, so Heartstopper is okay". Look at yourself at the mirror, and realize the fool you are by giving the conservatives tools; because you can't be bothered to actually analize and think about what you consume, and over generalize and simplify things. Actually speak about the real issue: mysoginy, romatization of sex violence, stereotypes, racist bias. THOSE are the real issue, no "the unnecessary sex". And as long as you don't point it out, those things will keep existing.

MORE IMPORTANTLY the study everyone is talking about is being BADLY misrepresented, and the results do not compose all the gen z population. Statistics aren't absolutes, and the study touches more topics than just sex in media. Mysoginy, racism, forced heterosexual plots, sexism, etc. Those topics where discussed. In a study that's focused on USA. You're over simplifying it. And a lot of you are just weaponizing it in a way that fits you.

I'm not surprised that a lot of you are also SWERFs, that tells me everything I need to know about your stance. I'm not gonna expand on why SWERFs are wrong, I'm not going to speak over sex workers, they have talked at length about how these things actually put them in danger. If you refuse to accept that fact, that's on you.

And last, and not least important: you need to evaluate your own relationship with sex and the ideas you have about adult content. I grew up in a catholic conservative country, I basically had to teach all my partners and friends about sex stuff, because the schools and their parents refused to do it. Among the worst things I heard was: "two girls doing it doesn't count as sex", "you can get pregnant via oral", "being bisexual is just a phase everyone grows out of", "having sex and it hurting is normal", "I don't know how the parts of my body are called". Those things were normalized because no one bothered to visibilize them. Those things were normalized because asking and knowing about it was seen as bad. But somehow soap operas with "steamy scenes" at dinner time was okay. I wish I had the chance to grow up with stuff like Heartstopper.

Y'all are being naive, privileged, and trashing years and decades of efforts to normalize sexuality. From the sex liberation movement (even slashers film were affected by this), to things like the slut march. Do not let yourself become weaponized by conservatives trying to censor us.

[feministfang]

liberal feminists are too male-centric to even think about avoiding sex with males they are literally choosing what men not to have sex with for the 4b movement and liberal males are giving them advice on tiktok lmao 😭😭

[isawthismeme]

Black people and women have been overqualified for every position in America since July 3rd, 1776. It is the progress of white people and of men to finally get over their racism and misogyny that is allowing people into those spaces. Remember that.

[silver4tongue]

To men, rape of women is discretion of property at worst.

It is evident in the way marrying the victim to her rapist is seen as "settling the issue" in multiple societies. Because it corresponds to the "you break it, you buy it" notion.

It's why marital rape is still legal in so many countries. "you buy it you can do whatever with it".

Parents and relatives of the victim, usually in South Asia are more worried about "who's gonna marry her now??.

To them violation of their daughter's autonomy isn't even a part of the equation. It's a matter of attack on their family "honor".

[feministdragon]

Separatism just means choosing women. supporting women, putting your emotional and financial energy into women. you don’t have to cut off all contact with men, (this is basically impossible anyways), just make women your priority. men do this all the time, and it’s gotten them everywhere. we need to do this too.

[catgirltoes]

Also I hate how there's so little feminist consciousness in the zeitgeist nowadays. Like for the mostpart people have a vague awareness that 'sexism bad' but there's so little ability to actually identify when things are sexist and why. There's so little recognition that misogyny is a genuine force of oppression. And what feminist consciousness does exist is utterly impotent, regardless of the form it takes.

[burningtheroots]

I‘m really worried and disappointed that people who hate radfems/terfs also attack children for being interested in radical feminism.

Radical feminism, when not taken to an extreme (which usually doesn’t happen btw), is neither hateful nor dangerous. It protects women and girls, and prioritizes our well-being.

It‘s better to learn about the truth than to get lured in by creepy people who label being subservient to men and commodificating yourself as "empowerment".

When you have a problem with the radfem community, take it up with the adults, but don’t go around insulting and mocking children/teenagers who simply want to LEARN.

I oppose liberal feminism, and I oppose trans rights activism, but I‘d never ever send hate messages to children who are interested in it. I wouldn’t even send hate messages to children who are interested in men‘s rights activism.

GET. A. GRIP.

[figofswords]

the op of the Hannah Gluckstein post is a terf :pensive: shes red on shinigami eyes + has some real sketchy stuff on her blog. obv no judgment, just letting you know in case you wanted to block her. love ur art <3 <3

eurgh thanks for letting me know :/// I’m not gonna delete the reblog bc hannah gluckstein as a jewish butch artist is still something that speaks to me personally and I had never heard of her before but I will be blocking the op. fucking astounding that these people will understand gender-nonconformity of lesbianism and then turn around and fail to expand it beyond the end of their nose. goddamn.

[iamnottoph]

ah yes, those dastardly ruskies, poisoning the minds of our american youth through the incredibly influential cultural touchstone of *checks notes* tumblr dot com

Just a thought for the night, but remember in 2016 there were all these accounts that seemed really really telling you all the ways Hillary Clinton was some kind of demon woman, just the worst, and really Trump wouldn't be worse and maybe he'd even be better?

and then it turned out they got banned for being literally Russian agents and never came back because spoiler they were?

does it feel like that all over again? just a thought.

[transwolvie]

Too many people are forgetting these things too quickly:

-SESTA/FOSTA passed. Despite the many, many warnings of sex workers.

-A bunch of apps started their censorship policies because Apple directly threatened their revenue if they didn't promise to cut down on the amount of porn on their sites

-MasterCard and VISA tried to outright stop processing OnlyFans work SPECIFICALLY because of the association with sex work, and no other feasible financial reason.

There is not a sudden regressive movement among individual people. Free The Nipple didn't fade into obscurity because people didn't care. It was stopped. By policies. By laws. By arrests. By censorship. These things have been purposefully put in place by companies and politicians. They saw the work we were trying to do wrt bodily autonomy, sexual liberation, and sexual freedom, and they forcibly put a stop to it.

[magicbystarlight]

Favorite Dress

Aemond Targaryen x Wife! Reader

Warnings: 18+, nipple play, mentions of public sex/nudity, body changes from pregnancy, simp Aemond. Minors DNI.

“You do not look bad,” your husband said as you raised a skeptical brow at her in the mirror. It had been nearly three years since you’d last worn the dress. Your body had changed much since then, thanks mostly to the two children you’d carried in those years. While it still fit with a few adjustments along the waist, there was not much material that could be added to the bust.

“I look as if I’ve taken a position in a pleasure house.”

He did not disagree. “You would be paid very handsomely.”

You huffed and turned back to him. “I cannot go out like this. I know it was your favorite, but it is simply too small now.”

He hummed. A finger caressed the excessive cleavage. “I think it is lovelier than before. I shall be the envy of all when they see what beauty our children have given you.”

“Aemond, I am serious! They threaten to liberate themselves at the slightest movement. All shall know what color dots their center if I dance at all.”

His lips curled into a smirk. In but a breath’s time, he’d lifted your breasts. The sudden coolness peaked your nipples. Your husband leaned forward and one in his mouth. His tongue rolled the sensitive skin before he sucked the pebbled skin. Fingers pinched and pulled at the other.

“I shall have a new dress made,” he conceded with a soft bite. “But for this evening, dear wife, this is what you will wear. And if these,” his thumbs ran over your nipples, “should become free while you frolic about, I cannot be held accountable if the whole party bears witness to us making another child.”

Other New Fics:

A Lady and Her Knight (Gwayne Hightower x Reader)

Lioness (Kraven the Hunter x Reader)

[djuvlipen]

i went to a leftist festival last month and there was a panel dedicated to prostitution, why abolition is the only road to go for leftists and how to help and support prostituted women exiting the trade, and i keep thinking about that union organizer who said, "we hear more and more that 'sex work is work', but if that were true, then there'd be professional trainings leading to a qualification for prostitution, then there'd be prostitution diplomas, then high schoolers could send applications to follow those trainings and become prostitutes. but we all know that all these things don't exist, and if they did exist we would all recognize them for what they are: a grooming business encouraging pedophilia and violence against women and girls." and what she said later; "trade unions that argue that 'sex work is work' never engage in legal battles against pimps or brothel owners. they don't even recognize that pimps are the bosses of the prostitution market. "sex workers' trade unions" don't fight pimps because sex workers' unions don't represent the alleged "workers" (prostituted women), they represent the bosses: pimps."

and that made me think of what Kajsa Ekis Ekman said about the trade unions that consider prostitution to be work and prostituted women to be workers: they offer trainings about condom use and spend millions of dollars funding "worker peer education" about "safe sex".

So one again, it's prostituted women who are held responsible for the spreading and the prevention of STDs - not the johns, not the pimps. the prostituted women, many of them victims of sex trafficking. "As human trafficking expert Malka Marcovich has pointed out, this means a return to nineteenth-century ideals of hygiene, where the onus was “primarily on the women to take responsibility for the health of ‘the customer’, so diseases would not be spread to their families” (2007, p. 347)."

It's quite obvious to any trade union organizer that prostitution is not work and the sex trade can't be organized as a trade union. a few months ago, the biggest unions in my country (which included the traditional left-wing trade unions as well as students' unions) issued a paper condemning the 'sex work is work' narrative and the pimp lobbies got so mad about that because they know their strategy isn't working because leftists know what left-wing politics look like and they know women's liberation doesn't come from prostitution. Now it's interesting that the biggest voices of the "sex work is work" movement come from the USA, where the anticapitalist left doesn't exist. American liberals love to pass reactionary politics as revolutionary but not because they are stupid in their own country does it mean they should influence the actually left-wing labour movement in other countries, right?

[silver4tongue]

Oh

Oh

Have you ever noticed that when a man beats up a rapist for raping his daughter, the community tends to praise him for a job well done.

When a girl or woman uses violence against a man making a sexual transgression, she's considered a psycho?

[venusgrl]

words fail to describe the second hand embarrassment i feel in my body when i see a feminist criticize something like sex work, makeup, cosmetic surgery, etc and someone comes up and says “isn’t feminism supposed to be about women’s choices :((” or something adjacent to that, and then we have to remind everyone that no, feminism is about FEMALE LIBERATION and not what makes YOU feel comfortable as an individual. with the rise of liberal feminism we’ve forgotten that feminism is a political movement and it’s not meant to be fun. it’s supposed to question and tear apart what’s seen as the status quo for women. if you can’t handle even the smallest criticism of things that you as a woman enjoy and take part in then feminism simply isn’t for you

[otherworldlydragon]

This is not a drill I just heard Fox News (conservative grandfather) complaining about talk of the 4B Movement post-the election. They were complaining about ridiculous liberals being upset they lost or however they were saying it and then I heard them bring up 4B so I rewinded it and copied the male newscaster's words below.

"On TikTok, self-proclaimed feminists- well they're shaving their heads- I don't know why, I assume out of anger, they're boycotting sex, and procreation, and relationships, and marriage. This is something they're calling the 4b movement [laughs to himself]. I can't make this up. Viewer warning: what you're about to see is pretty disturbing. I didn't make it up, I promise- take a look. [Plays videos of women promoting the 4B movement on I think TikTok]"

I know interest is rising among American women on Instagram for example but didn't realize word of the movement growing in the U.S. had made it to conservatives complaining on national TV. Let's Go!!

[femconstellation]

It’s insane that the actual definition of the 4B movement is no sex, dating, marriage, or pregnancy with men, and leftists online think that is just too exclusive! Therefore, you must include trans women in your dating pool. They cannot be grouped with men, that’s transphobic! And excluding all men means excluding black and asian men, and that’s also racist! And gay men wanna practice 4B, too! So instead, they’ll only fuck other openly gay men! Because excluding DL men from your sex pool is exactly the same as a woman refusing to date her oppressor, apparently. Oh, and it’s only for MAGA men! So your liberal Jakey is fine! He voted FOR your rights, so how can he be viewed as an evil man??

Like it’s exclusive for a reason!!! If you don’t want to stop dating men, then just say that instead of trying to worm your way into a movement.