Good relationships (sexual and otherwise) are all about respecting the autonomy of the other person. The goal should always be not to satisfy yourself, while the other person feels used, betrayed, or hurt (Win-Lose). The goal should be finding a way to satisfy your own needs while the other person also feels satisfied (Win-Win), whether than is in selling a car for a fair price, or entering into a polyamorous relationship.
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Malala Yousefzai: Great Sluts in History
As an American, it is sometimes impossible (and other times, all too easy), to imagine what we would do – what I would do – if my beloved country was taken over by religious extremists. Malala Yousefzai doesn’t have to imagine; she’s living it. And she has the bullet wounds to prove it. A SWAT…
Coco Chanel: Great Sluts in History
Abandoned orphan. Cocotte (kept woman) and Couturière. Nazi-lover? Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel did not live an easy nor uncontroversial life. Her parents: mother Jeanne, a landrywoman, and father Albert Chanel, a traveling street vendor, were unmarried at the time of her birth, though persuaded (shotgun marriage?) to formally wed, several children later. When Gabrielle was 12,…
Great Sluts of History: Mae West
Brazen. Bold. Bawdy. I made myself platinum,but I was born a dirty blonde. Tillie, a Bavarian wanna-be model/actress, and Battlin’ Jack West, a sometime boxer and more frequent street brawler, named their pretty blue-eyed daughter Mary Jane. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 17 August 1893, a few years after Katie was born and died,…
Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Great Sluts of History
“… given a choice between hearing my daughter say ‘I’m pregnant’ or ‘I used a condom,’ most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.”