Collective Trauma: The Morphogenetic Field of Fear
There are no ready-made laws and no ultimate physical laws pertaining to our bodies. There are only entrenched behavioral habits and there is a freedom within ourselves that enables us to rise to a higher form of life.
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.
Stripping Off Our Armor: The Accumulating, Paradoxical Power of Wilhelm Reich
Sex runs through culture like a hidden line of power, and where we don’t release it, where we don’t help each other come to our senses, we hurt ourselves and everyone else.
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.
The Demonization and Deification of Cannabis: Sex, Drugs and Enantiadromia
The demonization and deification of cannabis are two sides of the same coin. You can always tell which people live on a polarized coin because whichever side of it they inhabit they share a bond of absolutism. Cannabis is either the “devil’s weed” or a divine plant goddess that is a cure for everything.
Sex Work and Sexual Healing: Modern Day Sexual Healers Speak
Can a provider of sexual services facilitate healing? How can transformation take place within such an exchange?
Wet Dreams: Semen out of Place (SOOP)
Celibacy, seminal retention, castration and Spermatorrhea all come from male-centered cultures and religions. Saving seed/oil/money from spilling and anxiety around wet dreams were also entangled in the cross-cultural need to distinguish dry men from wet women
Coming Out
As a married woman who is both bisexual and polyamorous, I’ve had quite a few tough questions to answer over the years. When my husband and I started dating our mutual girlfriend, it took me a long time to tell certain people about it.
Conner Habib Speaks on “The Virtues of Being an Object.”
Conner Habib discusses his essay, “The Virtues of Being and Object: Touch, Pornography and Having Bodies,” featured in the new anthology, Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness.