Posted by Phil Dickens on 25/09/2010 · 4 Comments
A few days ago, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell gave a speech to the Sex and Law Conference in Sheffield, where he called – not for the first time – for the age of consent to be lowered to 14. This is a controversial issue, but also one where I am broadly on Tatchell’s side, … Read more
Filed under Debate and discourse · Tagged with 14, 16, abuse, age of consent, consensual sex, David Lindsay, homosexuality, paedophilia, pederasty, Peter Hitchens, Peter Tatchell, rape, religious wingnuts, sex, Sex and Law, sex education, sexual predators, STIs, teenagers, unwanted pregnancy
Posted by Phil Dickens on 05/04/2010 · 4 Comments
Part three in a series looking at anarchism as it relates to feminism, gender equality, and patriarchy. Integral to the feminist, particularly anarcha-feminist, outlook is the idea of sexual freedom. In the unpublished Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft made the point strongly that women “had strong sexual desires and that it was … Read more
Filed under Exploring anarcha-feminism · Tagged with Amanda Hess, Amanda Marcotte, anarcha-feminism, BDSM, Cari Mitchell, consent, Deep Throat, degredation, ejaculate, Emma Goldman, equality, facial, feminism, fetish, Free Love, freedom, International Prostitutes Collective, Jessica Wakeman, kink, Linda Lovelace, Linda Marschiano, Mariska Majoor, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michelle Thorne, pornography, Prostitute Information Centre, prostitution, rape, sex, sex industry, sex slavery, sexual freedom, snuff, trafficking, Victoria Woodhull, World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights
