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What Is Sex-Positivity?
There are a lot of ways to look at sexuality. People are influenced by their upbringing, culture, religion, and life experiences. Our ideas about sexuality evolve throughout our lives based on all these factors. We may feel embarrassed by the subject or don't know who or when we can talk about it but these kinds of conversations are important.
Teela HudakPublished 5 years ago in FilthyActive Energetic Consent
There are 4 types of consent within our society and I have listed and defined them below. It is so important now, more than ever, that we look at how we see consent. This needs to be a topic of conversation, a topic of education, a topic to be defined. I have put together Active Energetic Consent as a relevant way to explore the mandatory topic.
Miss Aayden ~ L.S. DiamondPublished 5 years ago in FilthyWhat You Need to Know About Sexuality and Intimate Relationships
Sexuality has been around for many of years; however, humans are the only species that shape sexuality by gender. A man has a high pitched voice—oh he’s probably gay, because he sounds “girly.” A woman likes to keep her hair short and she has a firm handshake—well, she’s probably gay. Society shapes sexuality by focusing on the homosexual stereotypes. Heteronormativity is a big factor on why society is like this. Heteronormativity is where heterosexuality being enforced by laws, religious doctrines, and family and employment policies that explicitly and implicitly promote this as the norm. Heteronormativity is constantly and heavily portrayed in the media as being normal and natural.
Taylor KellyPublished 5 years ago in FilthyShame the Slut Shamers
"Can you believe that slut fucked that dude?" That's a question that can be heard around the Village, Greenwich Village in NYC in this case, most Sunday mornings. As someone who has a gossip podcast, my ears always perk up but then realize this isn't the salacious tea that I trade in. These people are friends, or at least friendly, with the characters in their stories. Even worse is when the person is there too, dying of embarrassment that their sex life is on display for everyone to overhear. It's slut-shaming at its passive-aggressive worst, and the tables need to be turned on them.
Edward AndersonPublished 5 years ago in FilthyThe Untitled Body Project
If you've ever felt less than beautiful because your body doesn't fit into the endless ads of skinny women and muscular men, then you are surely not alone. International photographer, Rae Threat, has dedicated an entire art show to how cultural views affects the body images of those whose bodies do not conform to how society thinks they should be. Her work features interviews with models, ranging from adult performers to body positivity advocates, of a wide variety of genders, sizes, and identities.
Milcah HaliliPublished 6 years ago in FilthySex Education in High School
Sex education is a must in high school. Many sexually active students have no idea the dangers, both sexually and legally. As much as the parents of today’s kids try to abstain them from sex, high school students are simply going to do it. There’s no stopping them, even if they convince you they are not active. I was one of these students.
Julieann AlexanderPublished 6 years ago in FilthyThe Importance of Madonna as a Champion of LGBTQ Rights
Madonna has been a champion for the LGBTQ community from the get-go, and the LGBTQ community has long been a champion for her. Before she was ever even famous, one of the first positive influences on Madonna was her ballet teacher, Christopher Flynn. Flynn, a gay man, was reportedly the first person to tell Madonna that she was beautiful and that she had a special gift to offer to others.
Frank WhitePublished 6 years ago in FilthyXXX Feminism
Right this second, 729 people are watching porn. Right as you read this. And that’s only counting PornHub, due to their generous supply of statistics, leaving out the hundreds of other popular pornography websites out there on the world wide web. In the modern day, where taboos are constantly being poked and prodded, that’s not much of a surprise—or necessarily a bad thing. But it is something about which we need to be responsible.
Hannah PatPublished 6 years ago in FilthyWhy Losing My Virginity Was a Bigger Deal to Everyone Else
There's this huge stigma around losing your virginity and how you need to save it for that right person. Who ever said that you need to be with the person you're going to have sex with for the rest of your life? Why is a thing that women are to wait for the right person but for a man it doesn't matter? People always told me to wait for the right guy, that my virginity was something to be won, that the guy I chose to take it had to be important to me. Being a teenager, of course, I did the exact opposite of what they said.
Grace XtraPublished 6 years ago in FilthyWhy Can't Women Talk About Sex?
Why are women “slut-shamed” for talking openly about sex? It really isn’t fair. Everyone is always told that communication is so important in everything you do but then shun a female when the conversation is about her sexual encounters, preferences, or curiosities?
Danielle McLeanPublished 6 years ago in FilthyThe Dark and Light of Male Sexuality
When I looked up male sexuality on Google, what did I get? Absolutely nothing but article after article about sexual abuse, harassment, toxic masculinity, and generally just negative press about how men just can't seem to keep their hands or penises to themselves.
Jeff WatsonPublished 6 years ago in FilthyBDSM Is Not Abuse
I'm an abuse survivor and I've seen abusive doms. So please believe me when I say that I know the difference between abuse and BDSM. Anything that happens in consensual BDSM relationships is desired by both parties. In a BDSM relationship everything is negotiated. Anything that happens outside of that is abuse. The reason so many people confuse BDSM with abuse is because we are conditioned to believe that abuse look like the girl getting beat up or her being controlled. So when we see someone with bruises or being controlled we think that they are being abused. Yes abuse is possible but they can also be in a BDSM relationship.
Lena BaileyPublished 6 years ago in Filthy