Pleasure Trove Reading List! (Ep. 12) (Patreon)

Episode 12 Further Reading:

Zoella and the exam board masturbation row: the BBC's coverage of the fiasco.

Debunking TERF claims: this is a tweet thread from Julia Serano and I bookmarked it because she links to a bunch of articles such as 'Debunking "Trans Women Are Not Women" Agrugments' and 'Transgender People and "Biological Sex" Myths'. I haven't read all of them yet but wanted to share in case anyone else wanted to bookmark this thread to come back to regularly when in need of this info.

J.K. Rowling: ContaPoints' video essay about Rowling's transphobia, cancel culture and Rowling's new book (with the cross dressing serial killer).

The Unique Catharsis of 'It's a Sin': this is a really great article about It's a Sin and also tears apart a comment another reviewer made about how "we" can all empathise more with this story because of the current pandemic we're living through. Definitely worth a read and really exposing the "us/them" discourse that existed around AIDS in the 80s and still even now with how headlines frame sex scenes in It's a Sin vs Bridgerton.

Other Stuff

The Sexually Liberated Woman podcast - I recently listened to a few episodes of Ev'Yan Whitney's podcast. I love the conversations about Living Apart Together (LAT) and how them and their husband are living separately (in different cities/states). And Ev'Yan also recently came out as non-binary and had a whole chat about gender (and the use of the word "woman" in the podcast name with Dan Owens.

What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Centre of Life? - I loved this article and think about it A LOT.

Every dating dynamic ever - Anna Akana sketch, I enjoyed, very funny.

Healing from a broken engagement - Allison Raskin recently was out of the blue broken up with by her fiance and in this episode of Just Between Us (JBU) her and Gaby Dunn talk about the process of healing from that. It's raw but I also think it's a really helpful video for anyone going through a breakup.

How to be an ethical slut - damn I really need to ready this book. JBU again, Gaby & Allison interview one of the writers of The Ethical Slut, Jane Hardy.

Backseat Bingo - an animated documentary of old people talking about their sex lives.

Armie Hammer - check out Bitch Media's and Evie Lupine's analysis of kink and abuse with the recent allegations against Armie Hammer.

We Need To Talk About Jojo Siwa Coming Out - Rowan Ellis' video about Jojo Siwa. Really great discussion and inclusion of info about child stars, sexuality and media.