Event Preview: A Night Out at Shunga at The British Museum
On Friday 1st November from 6.30pm to 10pm Sexual Alchemy and Afterglow will be teaming up for a group visit to The British Museum to see Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. And you’re invited!...
View ArticleNews: New Sex and Feminism Research Made Available by Harvard
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), Harvard University, has completed a five-year project to address its backlog of uncataloged print, manuscript, and...
View ArticleCatastrophic Consequences
Nearly three years ago I wrote an essay entitled “Social Autoimmune Disorder”, in which I compared modern society’s persecution of sex workers to a disease “in which the body’s protective systems turn...
View ArticleCleansing Fire
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other, “tyranny”. - Karl Popper The casual reader can be forgiven for arriving at the erroneous...
View ArticleNews: Garden of Desires Explores Female Sexual Fantasy
Cliterati founder, Emily Dubberley, has a new book out, Garden of Desires: The Evolution of Women’s Sexual Fantasies. Featuring fantasies from over 400 women/people who identify towards female in the...
View ArticleRemembrance
Four things greater than all things are, – Women and Horses and Power and War. - Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Jest” Ninety-five years ago tomorrow, at eleven o’clock in the morning, the armistice...
View ArticleEvent Preview: Bike Smut: ‘Back in the Saddle’ Tour
Bike Smut is an international touring film festival celebrating human-powered transportation and sex-positive culture. Each year we ask the public to make short films expressing their ideas on bikes...
View ArticleCops and Robbers
The great mythologist Joseph Campbell once told the legend of a samurai whose lord had been murdered; he was given the duty to seek the man out and execute him. The quest took some time, but at long...
View ArticleCaveat Emptor
Advertisers are sneaky, unscrupulous creatures, and though their techniques have improved dramatically since the days when hucksters hawked snake oil, wonder soaps and electric corsets their adherence...
View ArticleBell, Hook and Kettle
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of...
View ArticleNews: Soho Sex Workers Raided by Police
Over 25 sex workers’ flats in Soho, Central London were raided by police last night (4 December). Police broke down doors, slapped closure notices on the doors of premises and threw women out onto the...
View ArticleNews:University of Manchester Announces ‘Queer Now and Then’ Seminar
The third and final event in the ‘Queer Now and Then’ seminar series (overseen by Professor Laura Doan) will be held on Tuesday 10 December at the University of Manchester: Earlier this year,...
View ArticleIs it possible to be a tomboy in your twenties?
This article is the first in a series about “tomboy” and was originally posted as a blog on Straight Out Of Crompton. Use the #tomboy to follow and join the discussion on Twitter. Over the last few...
View ArticleCase Study
In the process of writing my blog and these essays for Cliterati, I read and scan a tremendous number of news stories every week, from websites based all over the world. I get many of them from links...
View ArticleHonoring Our Dead
I know who held the knife, but they might as well have put it in his hands. - the mother of murdered sex worker Petite Jasmine Several days a year sex workers and our allies get together, either in...
View Article6000 Years of Christmas
Holidays are protean things; not only do the rituals by which we celebrate them change, but also their rationales and even their names. Over the course of millennia a celebration may eventually change...
View ArticleYear’s End
I’ve been writing for Cliterati for a year now, and have covered a plethora of topics. In my own blog, I always do a year’s-end retrospective of the top stories, but since I only do one column per...
View ArticleDevil’s Advocate
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped...
View ArticleNot Your Rescue Project
Until the advent of the internet, those who suffer from the sick need to control other people’s sexuality (or use sex as an excuse to hurt people) must have felt that, though they were beginning to...
View ArticleDrawing Lines
For most of human history, nobody thought of taking money for sex as a defining activity. This is not to say that there were no whores, because of course there were; it isn’t called “the world’s...
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