"Unorthodox" sheds light into a reality that few cultural works acknowledge, let alone deal with: that for women sex can be greatly painful even when consensual, and that for many women it is.
Tag: sex
Marxism in the Bedroom
More than a century ago, Oscar Wilde stated what may seem an eternal truth. “Everything is about sex except for sex. Sex is about power,” he wrote. But what power could this be? As Marx posits, “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” and “the ideas of those who … Continue reading Marxism in the Bedroom
My Freshman Hell
As I walked, biked and pushed myself over my limits for about 350 kilometres from Leon to Santiago de Compostella as I did Camino de Santiago, I learned what God truly meant to me. I had always known that God was part of me and I was part of God. Pushing over the Spanish hills and mountains, … Continue reading My Freshman Hell
10 Tantric insights to transform the sexual experience
“In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very visible. Scientists say that all the electricity that is in your body, if put together, can be used to light a five-candle bulb. It is not much. Quantitatively it is … Continue reading 10 Tantric insights to transform the sexual experience
Race in Sex
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” Oscar Wilde has got it right. Sex is a complex social issue which embodies layers of hard-to-handle gender and social status controversy. Adding politics of race in the equation only serves to further on heat up the already problematic topic of sexuality. … Continue reading Race in Sex
December in Bali
Man is 70% water. The rest is passion. It was a hot December night in Bali. Loud music heated up the atmosphere even more. We were in Sky Garden— the most popular club in Kuta, where the delegates of the UN youth conference I participated in decided to spend the night. The day was … Continue reading December in Bali
