While our society is coming to embrace women’s free sexual expression with a partner, we still tend to keep mum about self-pleasure.
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Commodifying the Body: What Surrogacy and Prostitution Have in Common
A BDSM educator shares her experiences with sex work and explains the troubling implications of commodifying the body.
The Collapse of Fact and Fiction: Barbara Loden’s “Wanda”
When Wanda (played by Barbara Loden) divorces her husband and leaves her two small children behind, she is quickly stripped of her identity.
The Body Issue: A Note From the Editors
Simone de Beauvoir famously said, “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” Yet there are few things as fraught for women as the relationships they have with their bodies.