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Beata organizes the Touch&Play "Reclaiming Romance" over the New Year
From 29 December to 1 January, Beata is organizing a special Touch&Play variant at the beautiful seminar location in the countryside in Drawehn - which is between Berlin and Hamburg. We would like to devote ourselves to a special topic: romance! Because it currently has a bad reputation. And rightly so! All too often, rose-tinted glasses lead to drama, suffering, jealousy, possessiveness, dependency and...
"My first time" - experience report on the FLINTA* orgy at Ewaldshof
After the FLINTA* orgy at the Ewaldshof, one person wrote a testimonial! "I was immediately curious when I heard about it. And of course I was a bit shy: What can I expect? What is expected of me? How open am I really? How much physical closeness can I allow with people I don't know? How much nudity at all? Am I totally uptight? Am I not getting too old for this?"
Touch&Play Germany 2024: true or false
Beata is co-organizing the Touch&Play gathering in Bavaria end of August -- and this year's theme is adorable! if you ever wondered, why some people who call themselves "authentic" feel 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 not only advocates the free expression of lust, but also the free expression of lustlessness. Because despite all the beautiful and important feminist sex-positive efforts to remove taboos and shame, this is still a shameful taboo: not having sex, not wanting sex or wanting sex but having difficulties with it...
Article by Beata on the "Liberation of the repressed weariness of sex" in 'Texte zur Kunst'
"Forget the images of oiled and horny bacchanalia, here we will indulge in languor and engage in lazy f****. Getting involved with people with whom the chemistry is not right, and consciously losing the desire for bore-gasm ...
Beata's discussion series "Ambivalent Aesthetics - Sexual Culture and its (re) presentations"
How is sexuality depicted and represented? Through nudity? By rubbing certain parts of the body? Through censorship? The triggering of 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?" - Interview with Beata about her view of sexuality in FAZ Quarterly
Did you actually see that there was an interview with Beata in the FAZ Quarterly? "The view of sexuality in many parts of society has changed radically. We present five women who have made a profession out of it." Among them...
A commemorative publication about sadism and a thank you for saying no
As a commemorative publication for the cultural scientist Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann, who works on sadism, gift theories, aesthetics and other exciting fields of research that are equally important to us, the volume "Empfangen" has just been published by DeGruyter Verlag, in which Beata was involved with other editors.
absurd sex with Beate Absalon - Sex Punk Podcast by Uta Rothermel
Dive into the world of sex counseling and listen to people doing stuff with sex 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 for Cultural Anthropology
More precisely, in the conference proceedings 'Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches' of the Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie. Beata's article can be found >>here.
Consensus procedure: 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 about sexual pleasure as a basic sexual right in the context of human rights. The project is a co-production...
luhmen d'arc in conversation with Jones Bolt from the podcast "Rein & Raus" (höhöhö). With such an attentive...
...fellow panelists, alert impulses and the desire to question things together in a fun way made the interview a real pleasure.
Thank you!
Beata's review of the wonderful handbook "Sexuelle Einvernehmlichkeit gestalten" was published in the magazine Kult_Online
"Even with the greatest care and best intentions, things can go wrong in sexual interaction. [...] This necessarily complicates theories of consent that assume autonomous subjects with a transparent ego core and view sex as...
Fabulous text find by Eva Hanson in Dummy Magazine - Workshop experience report "Killing me softly" by Kolja Haaf
Such an apt description of how to experience a sex-positive event. 😅 But here's also a big shout out to the wonderful and clever people Clara and Alina, who actually...
New Website online & registration open for touch & play Germany 2022!
"I stumble; maybe by stumbling I found you, maybe by stumbling I stumbled on happiness, a hap-full happiness; a happiness that is as fragile as the bodies we love and cherish." (S. Ahmed) - Get more info & your ticket for the next Touch&Play Germany - from 28.08.2022 - 02.09.2022 at Nature Community in Bavaria. >> Here!
What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 3: Incorporating Practices in an Art Context.
We are honoured that Eva Neklyaeva interviewed us for her articles about the connections between sexpositive and art spaces for the Various Artists online magazine, an initiative by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Eva is a curator working at the intersection as…