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Beyond 'sex-positive' and 'sex-negative'
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Beyond 'sex-positive' and 'sex-negative'

How do you feel about "sex positivity"? Just the word now!
When I heard the term for the first time, I couldn't get it together that such a sensual and dazzling space was labeled with such a cool and mathematical expression, the sound of which reminded me of the formulation of unpleasant medical diagnoses. Or I had to think of the pejorative accusations of positivism that I know from scientific contexts, when the blind spots are pointed out that go hand in hand with limiting the development of a topic to the one-dimensional accumulation and accumulation of facts, when there is also a surplus of knowledge that is non-positivizable, that cannot be clearly answered with "yes" or "no". In these initial associations with 'positivity', the term is not initially judgmental, but merely denotes a factual "something is there" "something is above zero". Of course, 'sex positivity' doesn't just want to emphasize that there is simply sex...

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The Ropes That Mean The World. Reflections on the EURIX - Rope Artist Intl. Performances Spring 2019
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The Ropes That Mean The World. Reflections on the EURIX - Rope Artist Intl. Performances Spring 2019

The last EURIX - an event dedicated to Bondage/Shibari/Kinbaku - presented its third edition of "'Rope Artists International' Rope Bondage Performance Festival", which aims to bring the performative aspects of rope bondage to the stage. "For this edition we matched rope performers with experts in the field of professional performance and invited them to research on the threshold between art and kink" explains the event's description, and further: "As the focus of EURIX is on creativity and innovation and is joined by the most advanced of riggers and models, the performance program displays not only high level technical skills, but also presents the latest findings of the aest[het]ical and theatrical...

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"Always this disgusting sex". To read the reviews of Jan Bonny's 'Wintermärchen'
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"Always this disgusting sex". To read the reviews of Jan Bonny's 'Wintermärchen'

The feature reviews give the impression that emphasizing one's own indignation and disgust is a necessary consequence that viewers must draw when sex and terrorist violence are presented together. And this is despite the fact that, if you look closely, the staging of sex in 'Winter's Tale' works differently from the callous hardcore rampaging in other neo-Nazi films. In contrast, the explicit scenes in Jan Bonny look surprisingly 'normal'. Normal = no steely bodies, the groping looks clumsy ("ouch!"), there are insecurities, jealousy, envy, it looks bored, then, to spice it up, they...

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