Become a Wordslut w/ Amanda Montell
Sex With Emily
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The Importance of Labelling Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities
When we don't have language that represents our experiences, are bodies from our point of view, it makes it difficult for the world at large to appreciate them. The ways that we symbolize these body parts in slang, penuses will always be weapons. To describe the vagina, you have things like box, garage, cave, meat, wallet, axe, wound, come sponge. I mean, this is not language that i feel reflects my body, on my terms. But what labelling can help do is legitimized experiences n in the minds of speakers. If we can reframe sex as something that isn't just penetration, it's over as soon as the guy comes, then that
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