Jillian Keenan
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Senegal
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Hey Christian Parents, Spanking Kids Is Sex Abuse
Spanking is inherently violent. It is also inherently sexual. → Read More
Children should be able to cry #MeToo after a spanking from a parent
It's perfectly legal for parents to hit their kids. But bad power dynamics lead to cases like Eric Schneiderman's. → Read More
Sex with Shakespeare: Kink and Secrecy in Singapore —
Sex with Shakespeare: Kink and Secrecy in Singapore A memoir excerpt Most nights, after work, I went out for drinks with Nikolai, the director of Macbeth. “You look distracted,” he said one evening. “What’s on your mind?” I winced. I knew exactly what was on my mind. Ever since Oman, where some women in the Shakespeare class had introduced me to bootlegged DVDs of The O.C., I’d been a huge fan… → Read More
You May Not Have Heard of These Women, But They Deserve to Be on the $10 Bill
Andrew Jackson must have some really good dirt on Jack Lew. Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that a woman will join Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill in 2020. Whoever she is—and public input will help decide—she'll be the first woman to appear on paper currency since Martha Washington graced... → Read More
Yes, You Can Be Fired for Being Kinky
This weekend, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sparked a national sex conversation when it dismissed popular radio host Jian Ghomeshi. In a Facebook post, Ghomeshi claimed he was fired because his participation in consensual BDSM had come to light and corporation executives “said that this type of sexual behavior was unbecoming of... → Read More
Paying Taxes and Going to Jail Like Adults; Teens Deserve the Right to Vote, Too
Teens work, pay taxes, even support families. So why can’t they vote? It’s time to change that. → Read More
Sex Workers Deserve Protection from Rape
In the oldest profession, rape, assault and murder are a constant threat, but even in areas where prostitution is legal, sex workers face discrimination → Read More
Spanking Is a Sex Act
Once again, I’ve been accused of pedophilia. Well, to be technical, my sexual identity was called “somewhat pedophilic.” But we’re talking about one of the most loathsome things a person can be accused of, so why split hairs? I’m also regularly told that my sexuality is “repulsive,” “damaged,” and “abusive.”... → Read More
Is Kink a Sexual Orientation?
It’s summertime, so of course the anti-sex crowd has decided to cool down with a fresh wave of sexual hysteria. The latest panic is that kinky people will lure vanilla children into our sexual hellscape through trendy pop cultural depictions of BDSM, such as Fifty Shades of Grey. This nonsense is annoying, but... → Read More
What National Review Doesn’t Understand About Sex
A correspondent for the conservative website National Review recently declared that Laverne Cox, the transgender actress gracing the cover of Time magazine, “is not a woman.” Kevin D. Williamson went on to argue that transgender identities are a “delusion ... that transcends the biological facts in question,” and referred to... → Read More
Kick Andrew Jackson Off the $20 Bill!
My public high school wasn’t the best, but we did have an amazing history teacher. Mr. L, as we called him, brought our country’s story to life. So when he taught us about the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson’s campaigns to force at least 46,000... → Read More
Giving Money to Child Beggars Is the Least Generous Thing a Tourist Can Do
I still remember him vividly. He was a little boy, maybe 10 or 11 years old, who navigated the streets of New Delhi by lying, stomach-down, on an old skateboard, and pulling his body along with his arms. He didn’t have any legs. He rolled over to me, looked up... → Read More
Next Step: We Need to Legalize Polygamy. No Joke.
Recently, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reintroduced a tired refrain: Legalized gay marriage could lead to other legal forms of marriage disaster, such as polygamy. Rick Santorum, Bill O’Reilly, and other social conservatives have made similar claims. It’s hardly a new prediction—we’ve been hearing it for years. Gay... → Read More
Happy Kinksters Don’t Have a Mental Disorder—but Unhappy Ones Do?
The American Psychiatric Association has decided that people with kinky sexual interests (which—let’s just get this out of the way—includes me) don’t n ... → Read More