Rentboy.com, Sexism, and “End Demand”
- Aug, 27, 2015
- Charlie Glickman
- gender, sex & culture, sexual politics
- 4 Comments.
Have you been following the news about the raid on the Rentboy.com offices? Rentboy was a website designed to connect trans and cisgender male escorts with clients. Two days ago, police arrested the CEO and six staffers, charging them with promoting prostitution. When we compare the way that Rentboy is being talked about compared to […]
Read MorePro-Voice: A New Approach to Abortion
- Jun, 03, 2015
- Charlie Glickman
- resources, sex & culture, sexual politics
- 2 Comments.
Abortion is a difficult topic to talk about, and not just because the experience can stir up a lot of challenging emotions. It’s hard to talk about because the two main sides to the cultural arguments about it don’t have much common ground. The anti-abortion folks (I refuse to call the pro-life until I see […]
Read MoreWhat Affirmative Consent Looks Like
- Sep, 09, 2014
- Charlie Glickman
- relationships, sex & culture, sexual politics
- 6 Comments.
It’s been really excited to see the progress of California Senate Bill 967. If it gets signed, it will require all universities that receive financial aid to use a standard of “affirmative consent” in disciplinary hearings about sexual assault. In a nutshell, it shifts things from “did anyone say no?” to “did everyone say yes?” […]
Read MoreEnd Demand Is Bad For Sex Workers
- Jul, 12, 2014
- Charlie Glickman
- sex work, sexual politics
- 6 Comments.
One of the most disheartening shifts I’ve seen in the political battles around sex work is the growing trend for various jurisdictions to shift towards a version of the Nordic Model, in which buying sexual services is illegal. While it’s a minor improvement over arresting sex workers, it’s an incredibly flawed and overly simplistic approach. […]
Why Men Need to Learn How to Not Be “That Guy”
- Jan, 08, 2014
- Charlie Glickman
- gender, sexual politics
- 8 Comments.
Melissa McEwan over at Shakesville wrote a piece today about why she thinks that straight men shouldn’t write articles or blogs telling other men how to not be creepy. She makes some good points, though I think she also misses some key points. Her first argument is that when men talk about creepiness, they tend […]
Read MoreMy Introduction To Rape Culture
- Oct, 07, 2013
- Charlie Glickman
- gender, sex & culture, sexual politics, social oppressions
- 14 Comments.
I remember exactly when I first understood what “rape culture” meant. I was nineteen and a sophomore in college. I was talking with a woman I knew about gender and sexual politics, and I just wasn’t getting it. She was describing what it was like for her to move through the world as a woman, […]
Read MoreUnpaid Emotional Labor
- Sep, 19, 2013
- Charlie Glickman
- gender, relationships, sex & culture, sexual politics
- 17 Comments.
The amazing Alex Morgan posted this on Facebook today: Post by Alex S. Morgan. I don’t think there’s any doubt that had this driver’s passenger been a cisgender man, he’d never have dared to pull something like that. But there’s more to this that needs to be unpacked. It’s disturbingly common for men try to […]
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