Interview with Elizabeth Bast on her journey as a tantric practitioner and the potentials of a sexually empowered spiritual practice.
The Long and Winding Road to Good Sex
Over the years, my sexuality has changed and changed and changed again. Sometimes it does get weird, in a delightful way. When I greet sex with openness and acceptance, the possibilities are endless.
Polyamory: Moving Beyond Identity into Revolutionary Love
Polyamory can be a sort of “revolutionary love,” problematizing old narratives of relationships and creating new ones. The ability to connect deeply with other human beings begins to melt away narratives of us vs. them that exist under monogamous ideology.
Lust Is the Teacher: Vladimir Solovyov’s Sexual Love
What if we took lust and desire seriously as a form of wisdom and meaning, not just chemical response? What if lust is a sort of faithfulness? What if lust is the ideal of love and not the other way around?
How To Fight Sexual Shame: Amber Hollibaugh, Edward Carpenter, and the Strength of Vulnerability
Wherever you have a secret, that is where you are vulnerable. I learned to move toward the vulnerability, instead of retreating from it. By becoming vulnerable intentionally, through the effort of honesty and openness, we become strong.
Impossible Pleasure: Charles Fourier’s Queer Theories
Charles Fourier believed that we’d been bamboozled into a dead-end corner of culture, with no room to move. Guarding that corner was the concept of the family, and especially the monogamous married couple.
Sex is Liberation: Paschal Beverley Randolph’s Divine Sexual Freedom
If you want to understand why sexual freedom is so threatening to people and institutions in power, masturbation is a good place to start.
Making Room for Sex: Ida Craddock and The Sacred Profane
Craddock’s message was that women had as much of a right to sexual pleasure as their husbands, and that this pleasure was a sacred right.
The Sex Radicals: Seven Thinkers Who Can Revolutionize Sex in Our Culture
Sex shame in our lives and sex shaming in our cultural sphere are intimately tangled. Instead of telling you the right way to put a condom on or how to please your lover, this series will examine the lives and theories of thinkers who were interested in pushing sex forward in some cultural way.
We’re Not Gonna Let Holly Go Lightly
In 2015, when Caitlyn Jenner has captivated the media and gay marriage has become legal in every U.S. state, it’s hard to imagine what America was like when Holly Woodlawn was born.
