The Dialectic of Sex by Shulasmith Firestone 1970

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual att...

musings of a sad, seraphic slut - heart and soul ♡

a peek inside the heart and brain of soul

Gender Performativity | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Matter and Desire

An Erotic Ecology

Against the Couple-Form | LIES Journal

Libidinal flows cut through the social world. Amorous and sexual relations do not exist in some domain safely taped off from the rest of society. Rather they are constituent elements of nearly every aspect of social life. Desire flows and circulates amongst places of employment, intellectual debates, political organizing, artistic circles, playgrounds, and cemeteries. The elderly patient grabs at the breast of a nurse hunched over him. A governmental official strips his newly hired intern down to her leopard print thong during an important briefing in his office. The incarcerated man holds his hand up to the glass of the visiting booth, attempting to touch his wife after twenty years of their bodily separation. These flows of libidinal desire operate within and amongst broader social mechanisms, such that they help animate the dynamics of economic and political life. Often a locus of politics, desire permeates the so-called ‘public’ terrain.

Sexualisierte Deepfakes: KI-Transparenz genügt nicht

Warum die guten Gesetze in der Schweiz nicht reichen werden.

Traps

The story of four very different women whose paths inte…

Lordship and Bondage

Full text of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind

Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives? - Unwinnable

The panic serves control, not preservation.

Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End

Stop saying there's no plot! A romance critic explains the craft of the sex scenes in Crave's Heated Rivalry (2025).

Gender | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

'love island' and the mirror of red pill ideology in modern dating

red pill masculinity, the objectification of women through entertainment ecosystems—and how it helps script modern heterosexual dating culture