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They have collected personal narratives on a range of issues related to sex and secrecy. This is an incredibly difficult area to research as many African leaders declare it taboo on the basis that these practices are alien to African culture and an import from the depraved west. The book demonstrates that there are silenced, traditional, institutionalized ways in which African women contracted same-sex relations. Second, it proclaims the right of African women engaged in same-sex practices or relations to their identities as Africans, as several interviewees state: Who can say we are un-African?
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Beyond the music, bottles, flyers, cages, and V. P sections, are the workers who keep the party going on and off the dance floor. Find out what happens once the last records are spun, and the drama follows them home. Sex, betrayal, lies, lust, and love, is never too far behind once these sexy employees clock out. Enter Gomorrah, and sit on the throne with the TurnOut queens. Stud 4 Stud, Romance Pages: Angel and Ace are best friends who happen to both be studs. She is tired of the traditions and rules that make her feelings taboo and decides to risk everything. Two studs in lust?
Where they do that at? Fast forward to , and T. It broke me in several places. This is where shit gets real. The lengths she goes through to tell Ace how she feels are real and moving and hard to read at times, but the affection they have for each other is hard-fought and raw.
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Their love scenes were some of the hottest because of this masculine, loving vibe between them. It was all I could take not to slam her hand in a car door, mostly because of how she dealt with loving Angel. Her hangups, based on what people would think, about loving another stud were going to be the death of her friendship; I just wanted her to wake up and see what was in front of her. Ace was also spoiled, a stud used to bedding a different femme almost every night, and being in love was something she envisioned as a last resort.
I was so invested in Turn Me Out: The resolution Ace comes to, and the fight Angel goes through to prove her love, is what makes this book special. I hope this book will help our community let go of the rigid stereotypes we place on each other and ourselves. Ariez is a Texas native currently living in Dallas. He has been writing since the second grade but only started exploring writing for an audience a few years after graduating high school. He enjoys reading in his spare time, playing board games with his family and watching football.
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It is this hypocrisy in allowing some and dismissing other manifestations of the erotic that I sought to address through my research. And my first hurdle began in looking for the texts. A simple Google search came to my rescue. Each of these anthologies consisted of fictional pieces penned by writers from South Asia. I was relieved as well as surprised at its easy presence and access on the web but complete ignorance among bookstores I am talking about two years ago, maybe things have changed now.
I ordered all four volumes online and I was more than happy to devour them for the ostensible purpose of conducting research. While conducting my research, I divided these stories on the basis of themes. But the one theme and aspect that I had a keen eye for was that of sexual fantasies and the kinds of sexual fantasies that these fictional worlds not only allowed but also gratified in a justified manner. Of course, sexual fantasies are not limited to the realm of the man.
This story brings in the element of sex as an avenue of escape when coupled with exploring sexual desire outside marriage. Svairini explores the many sexual fantasies, including those that may be categorised as queer, set in the context of sexual role play and orgy. Stylistically, the story stands out in its use of several literary tools like analogy and personification. Participants involved in the orgy are all named after specific erogenous zones like the mouth, the cunt, the cock and the ass.
Essentially, I just signed up to say: I love this exchange of comments. Thanks to all of you! I hope all of you find happiness with a woman who loves you just the way you are! I think people are losing the message of this answer. Yes, sometimes people have mismatched libidos, and yes, sometimes this can be due to one of the partners being asexual…etc. Yes, you can still love them, and probably always will, but that does not make you a good match. You have to be honest with yourself, and your partner regarding how you really feel about that other person and what needs you must have fulfilled to be able to stay in the relationship.
I guess my point is, communicate, be honest with yourself and your partner, and whatever your libido is, you can make it work if the other person is on the same page. I really like this comment. I feel like we got off track, though I am glad that the asexuality conversation happened. I think people should realize that Autostraddle is not anti ANY orientation.
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For many people it is a dealbreaker and it does mean the end. If those-or any other- needs are not being met, then, if a solution cannot be found, it is best to end it. Anybody who wants a relationship that actually lasts, someone to grow old with etc. Desire wanes and if you want to keep it alive you might have to actually work at it. Sorry if this sounds like I am taking my frustration out on your comment but I have just had my heart put through the meat grinder by someone I thought I was going to be with forever.
While this is true, there is a limit, you know? Like, relationships are work. But I think there are a hell of a lot more idealistic messages out there about relationships than realistic ones and as someone who would rather find steady long-term happiness than chase after fireworks all the time I find this frustrating. You and I are on the same page there! This is hugely important to me as well. Fascinating and thoughtful discussion! Or maybe I just want to see more discussions about polyamory and its ilk on this site! As always, thanks for being super smart, everybody. So much fun to read and learn from this community!
I like the diversity of ideas and honesty. I personally feel like given the amount of effort that the writer put into making the relationship work- doing counseling and talking about open relationships with her partner, it could come off as critical to raise the issue again like she should have tried harder or make the writer feel unheard. I am one of those people who needs a lot of sex in my relationship. I am very, very, very actively sexual, and that does play a huge role in determining my attractions and my happiness.
I have never been romantically attracted to someone who I was not first sexually attracted to. For me, sex is a fundamental part of a relationship, and something that I need to be happy. Not desiring to date someone is not the same as being prejudiced against them. Demisexuals absolutely should have the right to wait until they are comfortable with a partner to have sex.
Every person is different and has the right to decide what kind of relationship they want and what needs they need met—you do you. I am in a relationship with a libido gap. I noticed something interesting in many of the comments — this idea that our culture makes it seem like everyone is having this extensive sex life and you need one too to feel fulfilled.
And I can see how that might be the case for someone with lower sexual needs than mine! The ways in which our culture is fucked up about sex is complicated and sometimes contradictory. I also see a stream one repeated in the comments here! While I would never say that anyone has an absolute expectation to get sex or that anyone should be having non-consensual sex, relationships do involve compromise and sometimes people in relationships might need to push to the edge of their sexual comfort zones for the sake of the relationship.
When you are a sexual person, constantly being turned down for sex can do a number on your self esteem. And that is goddamn painful. Thank you so much for this comment! I do want people to be upfront about that because, guess what? Sex less than twice a week? In fact, I personally appreciate your candidness — both allos and aces need to be up front right from the start if they foresee a compatibility problem, and your experience with your asexual ex was unfair and frustrating.
The need of any individual for more or less sex — which is absolutely a valid, physical need! Just as some people need more sex to feel healthy, some people NEED warm weather and sunshine to feel healthy. Some people are fine with all the seasons as they are, in whatever climate they live in these might be analogous to some of the allos who posted their relationships with aces, where sex is a non-issue or easily managed. Libido is a scale, just like seasonal affectedness is a scale. Dehumanization and erasure is a major issue for aces.
Sex is a valid need for sexual people. It is a true physical need. Denying that need can be dangerous to your health and well-being. I do realize, after seeing some of the other comments, that the phrase could be taken two ways. That goes for allos as well as aces. Just as an ace needs to be upfront to her potential allo mate, the allo needs to be upfront right off the bat if sex is going to be an issue.
And I think that all the allos and the aces on this thread are on the same page about that. Also, thank you for bringing up the fear of abandonment that I think is pretty prevalent for a lot of us aces. The fact that allosexual people want and need sex is something that is incredibly policed in our society in terms of who gets to have sex, and how that sex is considered valid. There is nothing wrong with wanting more sex than your partner, just as there is nothing wrong with wanting less sex than your partner especially if this means you are asexual.
I think the issue was with the phrasing. A phrase that, when read one way, is empowering to women, is, without that pronoun, a phrase that inadvertently could be read as damaging to another group. But YOU feel hurt! You know, up until you, no one actually had described anyone as rapey, but for describing yourself you reeeeeally hit the nail on the head. Okay that was rude iPhone. There seems to be an under over? Thank you for stating this.
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Say you can put sexual desire on a high-low spectrum. One partner ranges on the spectrum between a little sex and some sex. The other partner ranges from some sex to all the sex. Both partners are still within their sexual comfort zones, but at the edge of those comfort zones. I hope that clarifies things a bit! If I had a partner to did not want to have sex, I would not pressure them, but I also would not feel obligated to stay in a relationship with them. I personally am not wired to want to have sex with someone with a penis. But i know that other people do. However, its not wrong to want to be in a relationship with someone who is attracted to you, its not wrong to want to be in a sexual relationship.
In some comments, it feels like there is a degree of criticism of people who are allosexual and want to be in a monogamous sexual relationship. It also feels like some people are critical of aces and of allos who would date asexuals. Most of us on this website have a gender or sexual identity that lots of people are critical of, and many of us have been made to feel ashamed or embarrassed about who we are. It seems it is much more acceptable to have a non-adjusted relationship…and not have it too.
A hell of a lot of people in that position dont know or fully understand their identities or desires. Wish you could look 20 years into the future. I am suggesting to be realistic, to both sides. Some great discussions in this thread. Mixed desire relationships can work, and if you guys want it to then you really need to focus on developing happiness and intimacy in the relationship and working out if you can continue as a cou, and sorting out how to fulfil your own sexual needs.
Relationships are way more than sex, I can feel way more intimate with my partner gaming, cooking, rock climbing together, than necessarily physical intimacy too. Maybe you do need more in a relationship, but maybe sex is just one part of it and you can still have a loving awesome relationship. There are other ways to be intimate with people, and perhaps your girlfriend is open to erotic but non sexual kind of things. Good luck anyway x.
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Female sexual pleasure is censored out of mainstream film and television, and women with sexual appetites are often portrayed as parodies of themselves. Feeling unwanted by your partner also can cause really deep wounds and make you super insecure! I was raised by a sex-positive hippie lesbian feminist and still sometimes have to do hours of mental gymnastics to get myself into a headspace where I feel okay about wanting. I could quote Carolyn Knapp all day on this subject but….
Women but rarely men are usually told their sexual needs are ripe for compromise. That does not remotely change the fact that people pressuring and coercing their partners to have sex, and generally feeling entitled to sex in relationships, is a very real and indefensible problem that feeds rape culture. And the comments have been absolutely rife with it, as well as extremely dehumanizing and disgusting portrayals of ace-spectrum people.
Are you going to address THAT? Like, literally no one here thinks sex where one person is just doing it because they feel like they have to makes for good sex. No one is entitled to sex. But people are entitled to healthy relationships. And a healthy relationship cannot happen if both parties want entirely different things. Or one person being a die hard PETA following vegan and the other really into hunting and fishing and eating red meat. Or one person wanting the other person to be a stay at home mom and housewife when the other person actually is very career driven.
Same thing in this situation. I think her intention was to speak to the subtext present in a lot of the discussion, from both sides. Some people here have been saying some fucked up things about aces, and have said some creepy things about how sex should work in a relationship. Again, sex drives can have a whole host of different intensities.
Nobody should feel like they have to compromise in such a big way. Not eleven years in, though, thank god , such vastly different sex drives are NOT going to work. And no, to the commenters above, masturbation is not at all like fucking an actual human being. Like, have you had sex with someone before? Yeah, the idea that self- pleasuring should be enough in a relationship is just ridiculous. No, it is nothing like fucking an actual person. We have far more implicit spaces to exist in than explicit ones, and so we may jump to conclusions when it seems like those implicit spaces may turn against us.
Omg, thank you so so much for this link. My not-want-sex started after I did some video evidence for past sexual abuse. In my experience, one partner no longer wanting to have sex is not just a problem with that individual. What is wrong with her? I just like to have at least the barest amount of wooing beforehand. She might have thought she was doing that, but everything she did was what turned her on, not what turned me on.
She was a selfish lover. I did have a much better time masturbating. I can do sex without romance just fine, but if someone is asking for both from me, then they have to hold up their end of things, too. Sex with bad romance is worse than sex with no romance.