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Beata is organizing the "Reclaiming Romance" Touch&Play event over New Year's
From December 29 to January 1, Beata is organizing a special Touch&Play event at the beautiful seminar venue surrounded by nature in Drawehn—located between Berlin and Hamburg. We’d like to focus on a special theme: romance! Because it has a bad reputation these days. And rightly so! All too often, rose-colored glasses lead to drama, suffering, jealousy, possessiveness, dependence, and…
“My First Time” – A Report on the FLINTA* Orgy at the Ewaldshof
After the FLINTA* orgy at the Ewaldshof, someone wrote a first-hand account! “I was immediately curious when I heard about it. And of course, I felt a certain amount of hesitation: What will I encounter? What will be expected of me? How open am I really? How much physical intimacy can I even allow with people I don’t know? How much nudity, for that matter? Am I totally uptight after all? Am I starting to get too old for this kind of thing?”
Touch&Play Germany 2024: true or false
Beata is co-organizing the Touch&Play gathering in Bavaria at the end of August—and this year's theme is adorable! If you've ever wondered why some people who call themselves "authentic" come across as so fake, why superficial conversations can sometimes have way more depth than actually shallow "deep talk," and how much honesty can be revealed in lies—then come and explore with us…
Beata has written a book
For a new sexual revolution that advocates not only for the free expression of desire, but also for the free expression of a lack of desire. Because despite all the wonderful and important feminist and sex-positive efforts to break down taboos and eliminate shame, there remains one shameful taboo: not having sex, not wanting it, or wanting it but having difficulties with it…
Article by Beata on the "Liberation from Oppressive Sex Fatigue" in 'Texte zur Kunst'
"Forget the images of oiled-up, raunchy bacchanals—here we’ll wallow in idleness and indulge in rotten f****. Getting involved with people we don’t click with, and consciously savoring the thrill of the bore-gasm …
Beata's lecture series "Ambivalent Aesthetics - Sexual Culture and its (Re)presentations"
How is sexuality depicted and represented? Through nudity? Through the rubbing of certain body parts? Through censorship? By provoking aroused feelings? Beata is organizing a series of discussions at the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture in Giessen on the…
"How do we know what we really want?" - An interview with Beata about her views on sexuality in FAZ Quarterly
Did you happen to see that there was an interview with Beata in FAZ Quarterly? “The way other segments of society view sexuality has changed radically. We’re featuring five women who’ve turned this into a career.” Among them…
A commemorative volume on sadism and a thank you for saying no
The volume *Empfangen*, recently published by DeGruyter in honor of cultural studies scholar Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann—whose work focuses on sadism, theories of gift-giving, aesthetics, and other fascinating fields of research that also engage us—features contributions from Beata and other editors.
Absurd Sex with Beate Absalon – Sex Punk Podcast by Uta Rothermel
Dive into the world of sex counseling and hear from people exploring their sexuality in Berlin. In the first season, “Sexual Anarchy,” we’re interviewing rebels and misfits, asking how we can channel our sexual…
Beata's article on consent zines in the Hamburg Journal of Cultural Anthropology
More specifically, in the conference proceedings *Anthropology of Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Cultural Studies Perspectives on Everyday Life* published by the *Hamburg Journal of Cultural Anthropology*. Beata's article is available >>here.
Consensus-building: A Conversation with Beate Absalon – Interview by Tjaša Črnigoj for “Sex Education II”
The theater project “Sex Education II” is a series of lecture-performances on sexual pleasure as a fundamental sexual right within the framework of human rights. The project is a co-production…
Luhmen d'Arc in conversation with Jones Bolt from the podcast “Rein & Raus” (hehe). With such an attentive…
…With engaging conversation partners, thought-provoking insights, and a shared enthusiasm for playful inquiry, the interview was truly a pleasure.
Thank you!
Beata's review of the wonderful guidebook *Creating Consensual Sex* has been published in the magazine Kult_Online
"Even with the utmost care and the best of intentions, things can go wrong during sexual encounters. [...] This necessarily complicates theories of consent that assume autonomous subjects with a transparent 'self' and view sex as…"
A fabulous article by Eva Hanson in Dummy Magazine – Workshop review: "Killing Me Softly" by Kolja Haaf
What an accurate description of what it’s like to experience a sex-positive event. 😅 But I’d also like to give a big shout-out to the wonderful and smart people Clara and Alina, who actually…
New website now live & registration open for touch & play Germany 2022!
“I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled upon happiness—a happiness brimming with joy; a happiness as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish.” (S. Ahmed) – Get more info and your ticket for the next Touch&Play Germany—August 28, 2022, through September 2, 2022, at Nature Community in Bavaria. >> Here!
What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 3: Incorporating Practices into an Art Context.
We are honored that Eva Neklyaeva interviewed us for her articles on the connections between sex-positive spaces and art spaces for the online magazine *Various Artists*, an initiative of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Eva is a curator working at the intersection of…