Call for Submissions: Feminist Porn Studies

This showed up in my in-box. I’m really looking forward to reading this book! Check out the info below and feel free to pass this along.

Feminist Porn Studies: Writing by Academics and Sex Industry Workers

http://feministpornstudies.wordpress.com/

A new generation of women in the porn industry openly identify as feminist and own their own companies, direct and produce their own material, and/or take on politicized identities as sex worker performers. In addition to “porn for women,” a new wave of porn genres emerges today including alt porn, feminist porn, queer porn, amateur porn, and genderqueer and transgender porn.

Given the transformations of feminism, sexual politics, pornography and popular culture over the last decade or more, our book, Feminist Porn Studies, moves past the pro/anti porn

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10.14.10 | %% Category: pornography, sex & culture | Leave a comment

The Kinsey Institute’s Looking for Student Grant Proposals

via mysexprofessor.com

Are you a sexuality grad student? Are you looking for a little extra cash to help you with your research? (If you answered yes to the first question, then I’m pretty sure you did the same for the second one )

The Kinsey Institute is accepting applications for student grants, but the deadline’s coming up! Read the info below and get your paperwork in. And feel free to pass this along to anyone who might want to know about it.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for The Kinsey Institute Student Research Grants 2010-2011. This program confers sexuality research grants to emerging scholars and seeks to fund

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08.09.10 | %% Category: sex research | Leave a comment

Call for Submissions: Women’s Descriptions of Orgasm

The truly fabulous Midori is looking for women to participate in a new project:

I turn to you, dear readers, for some juicy material needed for a very special project. I am collecting women’s accounts of the physical experience their orgasms. I’m really hoping that some of you can help me out with this. Feel free to pass it on to any women or lists with women who might be interested.

Details –

I am seeking first person descriptions from women about their orgasms.

• Who: You are a woman, 18 years or older, who have experienced one or more variety of orgasms. (Transwomen! I want your unique perspectives too!)

• What: Essay of clear and detailed description of your orgasm, from start to finish,

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07.21.10 | %% Category: sex research, sexual practices | One comment

Call for Submissions: Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink

From Lee Harrington’s LJ

Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink

In 2009, Lee Harrington’s “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond” opened up the dialogue around altered states of consciousness, sexuality with intent, sex magic, and BDSM and its intersections with faith to an audience hungry for information. Now, it’s time to tell your stories.

Have you experienced catharsis, ordeals, transformation or a rite of passage in your erotic edge experiences? Do your perceive your consensual slavery as an ascetic path, find depth in your fear play, or dance in delight at the end of a lash? Do your fetish objects hold actual power? Does your connection to the divine manifest through your kink, engaging you through possession in or through

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06.03.10 | %% Category: sex & culture, sexual communities, sexual practices | 2 comments
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