Is There a Place for Sexual Shame?

This post is accidentally safe for work. Sorry. I didn’t have time to put in pictures before posting it.

I saw a post with this title on the Naked Truth blog, and thought it was a great idea for a post. My plan, as usual, was to read it and then come here and talk about essentially the same thing, linking back to the article. Except then I read it and it turned out to just be talking about masturbation and why men feel shame after they yank it – even men (as with the case of the blogger’s husband and subject of the post) who weren’t raised to think of masturbation as shameful.

That’s an interesting question, and one that’s worthy of a blog post, but when I saw the title my mind went in a different direction: are there types of shame which are actually valid? Are there times when we should feel shame? In other words, literally: is there a place for shame?

Wow, the People Who Write for “Barstool Sports” are Misogynistic Assholes

I came across this article from a site called “Barstool Sports,” which I’d never heard of before. I should have been tipped off that this was going to be a bad article from the very first sentence:

Ever since controversial undergrad/Duke porn star Belle Knox announced she’d be headlining her first strip show in NYC on Friday, college students have been racing to the poles.

News Coverage of Spring Break in America

I don’t know if Spring Break is something that’s “celebrated” all over the world, but they make a big deal out of it here in North America. It’s a week in the Spring that colleges and universities around the country take off so that the students can prepare for exams. By which I mean: drive to Florida, strip down to bikinis, get shitfaced, and have lots of sex. Of course, if you look for pictures of Spring Break you’ll mostly see white kids, for reasons I’ve discussed before.

Porn as a Form of Female Empowerment

I really should have talked about Belle Knox before now. I blog about porn, and yet when a porn-related news story gets international attention I don’t mention it? What’s wrong with me? (Then again, my blogging about porn is more related to my own likes and dislikes, so maybe it’s not such a big deal…)