One of the qualities that overwhelmingly characterizes the attitude adopted by sexologists advocating either conversion therapy for trans children or for normalization and destigmatization of adult sexual interest in children (or both) is a pervasive, deeply troubling callous indifference toward the young person’s experience of acute distress. We’ve be given permission to share this article […]
Tag: Sexology
Book Review: “Harmful to Minors,” by Judith Levine
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia Table of Contents: The Short Version and the Long Version This was supposed to be a one-paragraph blurb. Numerous times since I began talking about youth liberation, consent, and rape culture, friends and radicals have asked what I think of Judith Levine’s highly […]
Sex, Desire, and Violence
⚠Content Warning: Sexual Violence, Sexual Coercion, Child Sexual Assault, Rape Apologia, Pedophilia (Non-Graphic) This essay is one of a two-part series. Read Part II here. Table of Contents: On Strange Bedfellows You have most likely heard someone assert that, “rape is not sex, rape is power.” Or the somewhat less reductive: “rape is not about […]