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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, nature-surrounded retreat in Drawehn—located between Berlin and Hamburg. We’d like to focus on a special theme: romance! Because it currently has a bad reputation. And rightly so! All too often, rose-colored glasses lead to drama, suffering, jealousy, possessiveness, dependency, and…
“My First Time” – A Report on the FLINTA* Orgy at the Ewaldshof
After the FLINTA* orgy at Ewaldshof, someone wrote a first-hand account! “I was immediately curious when I heard about it. And of course, I felt a certain 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 slowly getting 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 absolutely charming! If you’ve ever wondered why some people who call themselves “authentic” come across as so fake, why superficial conversations can sometimes be far more profound than so-called “deep talk,” and how much honesty can be revealed through lies—then come and explore these questions 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 overcome shame, one thing remains a shameful taboo: not having sex, not wanting it, or wanting it but struggling with it…
Article by Beata on the "Liberation from Oppressive Sex Fatigue" in 'Texte zur Kunst'
"Forget the images of oiled-up, raunchy orgies—here we’ll wallow in idleness and indulge in rotten f****. Getting involved with people we don’t click with, and consciously embracing the thrill of the bore-gasm …
Beata's lecture series "Ambivalent Aesthetics - Sexual Culture and its (Re)presentations"
How is sexuality portrayed and represented? Through nudity? 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 society views sexuality has changed radically. We introduce five women who have turned this into a career." Among them…
A commemorative volume on sadism and a thank you for saying no
The volume *Empfangen*, published by DeGruyter, has just been released as a commemorative publication honoring 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 hold great interest for us; Beata contributed to this volume alongside 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 exploring 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…
…Thanks to the other participants, the lively exchanges, and the joy of engaging in a playful, collaborative exploration of ideas, 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 core self and view sex as…"
A fabulous article by Eva Hanson in Dummy Magazine – Workshop review: "Killing Me Softly" by Kolja Haaf
What a spot-on description of what it’s like to attend a sex-positive event. 😅 But I also want 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; perhaps by stumbling I found you, perhaps 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 & your ticket for the next Touch&Play Germany – from August 28, 2022, to 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…