Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to George Darroch,
but I'm not sure how we get there.
I am seriously considering moving on to this next week. I have some ideas. So, I'm betting, do you guys.
I'm looking forward to male hormonal contraception being widely available.
The best birth control in the world is for men. But yes, it's not available yet.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Euan Mason,
Call me old fashioned, but I still find that's true, all other things being equal.
"All other things being equal" is a pretty bloody big caveat though, isn't it? And doesn't it basically make that statement both impossible to disagree with and basically meaningless?
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Aidan,
The energy in that crowd was incredible. All singing along ... they'd hold off on a line, we'd sing, they'd laugh, the crowd was euphoric.
Yeah, but you'd sing, right? You weren't screaming so hard you couldn't actually hear any of the music.
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Hard News: Really The Blues, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
there is a solution at hand...
Grow fucking ridiculous moustaches?
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Danielle,
And really, isn't it sort of rebellious of them, in a way, to go for moppetry ahead of 'manliness'?
Well, not if moppetry is what's being actively marketed to them, no. I'm struggling to come up with a male singer marketed to teenager *girls* as aggressively masculine. There must be some.
(I say this. My grandmother wouldn't allow The Beetles to be played in the house. In the 80s.)
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Jolisa,
inaccessible Olympian crushes
Someone told you about the captain of the Canadian Women's Curling Team, didn't they?
We never stop fancying celebrities. There's not a lot I wouldn't have done for with or to George Michael when I was a teenager. But, yeah... that big a proportion of the population genuinely find floppy-haired brunette moppets attractive?
If it's as acceptable for me to fancy Allison Moyet as it is George Michael, it's got to diffuse a bit, in recognition of how different people's tastes really are.
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TBH, the One Direction line was supposed to be a joke. When I'm advocating making little girls and boys get undressed in front of each other, I'm kind of surprised this is the thing being picked up on.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Russell Brown,
but is having actual sex the obvious or desirable alternative to 13 year-olds having a brief infatuation with a pop group?
We know that in families and countries where sex is openly discussed and less taboo, teenagers have sex later, rather than earlier. I'm not saying they'd actually need to be doinking, just that sexual energy wouldn't need to be actively repressed, and so pop out uncontrolled in other channels.
Mass hysteria, whatever the focus, makes me fucking uncomfortable.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Danielle,
You're kinda saying there should have been no Frank Sinatra or Beatles. :)
The music, and in Sinatra's case the hotness? Still happen. The hysteria? Not so much.
Yeah, it's the same phenomenon. And watching those girls queueing up to catch a glimpse of One Direction, who can't speak? Makes me feel really ill.
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to Euan Mason,
OK, I admit it. I'm a heterosexual male who values monogamy. Statistically, I would guess I'm one of the privileged, although it doesn't always feel like that.
Euan, I don't want to come down on your arse too hard (so to speak) but I suspect that might be because you have nothing to compare it to. Have you ever been abused by strangers for walking down the street holding hands with your lover? Ever been unable to get legal recognition for your relationship? Ever risked jail for having sex the way you and your partner both wanted to? Ever felt you couldn't take a partner home for Christmas with your family because it would cause ructions?
I could go on. But that privilege isn't just in the things that happen to you. It's also layered in the things that don't. And it's very hard to see something not happen.