The Edge of Sex: Navigating a Sexually Confusing Culture from the Margins

ISBN-13: 9780367338350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 350 str.

Lisa Speidel; Micah Jones

Opis

The Edge of Sex is an anthology of voices from the margins, bringing together 37 writers to discuss their experiences of sex and sex education in America.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Inorgasmia, Floodgates and A Magic Wand 3. My Cultural Balancing Act 4. Don’t Fear Failure 5. My Menses are Magnanimous   6. It Takes a Village: Discovering My Identity Amidst Cultures of Confusion 7. JCPenney, Ben & Jerry's and My Journey Out 8. Black Girl Lost: Navigating the Intersections of Race, Gender, Religion and Sexuality 9. Lavender Linguistics: Why Words Matter 10. Your Reproductive Health is Not Our Concern: A Lifetime of Medical Gaslighting 11. Quentin and Pearl  12. Pillow Talk 13. Learning to Love: Sexuality, Communication and Heartbreak  14. From "Doing It" to Breaking the Binary: How I Figured Out What the Hell My Gender and Sexuality Are  15. Chapters  16. Earning My Name  17. "How Cute"  18. Brown Sugar Baby  19. Yoga Pants, Growing Pains, and New Beginnings 20. If at first you don’t succeed…maybe relationships and sex just aren’t your thing  21. Are You a Boy or A Girl? No  22. October 16^th, 2011 4:00am. Good Girls Don’t Do That: Reclamation After Violence  23. Signed, Your Stereo Atypical Lesbian Poet 24. On Why I Went Upstairs  25. What Does It Mean to Have An Identity?  26. Constructs and other Coutures 27. Down the Rabbit Hole  28. The Contours of Breath  29. Fundamentals 30. On Love Without Limits 31. Snapshots  32. Selfish  33. My Journey to Sex Education  34. Get Out of My Vagina, or How Many Male Doctors Get to See My Vagina? 35. Erotophobia: The Fear of Sex  36. Tease  37. Men Act Cool as Cucumbers but Are Actually Hard as Cucumbers: A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter  38. Down Afton Mountain: A Conversation Between Two Brothers