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Somnambulant (1878) by Maximilián Pirner

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it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

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One of the most healing things I’ve strove (striven?) to do in my life is viewing sex as just another thing people do, among a host of other things like eating and pooping and playing with cats.

Our entire society, feminists and puritans alike, pushes the idea that sex is uniquely powerful and dangerous, capable of inflicting The Worst Trauma or the Highest Fulfillment, and that’s…just flat out untrue. Other experiences can cause similar trauma: violence, disasters, war, instability. Other experiences can result in transcendent pleasure: trance states, live music, non-sexual intimacy, tattoos.

I think this is where the disconnect in perception about sex positivity comes from, because the phrase itself makes people who already view sex as being uniquely powerful think sex positivity means viewing sex as uniquely good, when actually…it’s mostly about taking sex off that pedestal. Normalizing sex. Making it into just another thing people do. Because that’s the first step in making sure people can engage with sex on their own terms in a healthy way.

Taking sex off its cultural pedestal was the thing that allowed me to overcome the deeply-instilled shame I developed from being raised within Christian purity culture, and from being queer, and from existing as a woman. I think a failure to do that, in feminist circles, often leads to an overblowing of the (very real) harm that sex has the potential to do at the exclusion of other problems facing women and other marginalized groups, which often leads to more shaming rhetoric - just rhetoric that shames different people for different reasons.

Sex is not the enemy and it’s not our savior. It’s just one more thing people can do with their bodies.

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Red Hot

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Outrunyouth aka Victor Sillue (Norwegian, b. Bergen, Norway, based Hamburg, Germany) - My Spiral Art, Digital Art

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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Show me how unwell you are by telling me what your top song of 2025 is so far

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beaded spider embroidery hoop 🕷️🕸️ handmade with vintage and salvaged beads

etsy

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i hate knowing things. and not knowing things? not a fan of that either

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This scientist crafts stunning visual art through chemistry.

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everyone should read philosophical trends in the feminist movement by anuradha ghandy. literally the easiest marxist feminist read i've read and she is so to-the-point about her critiques of different feminist trends.

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do not try contacting me i have blocked you on my crystal ball

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How can anybody have you? How can anybody have you and lose you? How can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their minds, too?