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Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality: Learning To Love Myself and My Foreskin
Journalist Gary Nunn writes on his experience coming to accept, and love, his body in a world that stigmatizes foreskin in an exclusive essay for Cashmere Magazine.
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The Show Must Go On: Working With, And Through, Depression As An Online Sex Worker
Cashmere contributor, dominatrix, and poet Stormie Conn writes on the unspoken struggle content creators face: working through, and with, depression. Speaking on mental health and how it impacts her sex work and mindset, Conn writes a poignant personal essay.
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Hypersexuality, Trauma, and Healing: Reclaiming My Body After Violence
“Many looked down on my choices, some expressed pity, and countless others questioned me relentlessly. Why was I so into sex if I was really an abuse survivor? Was I telling the truth? What was wrong with me?”
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Life After Sex Work: My Nudes Are Everywhere. Now What?
“The industry fundamentally changed the way I valued myself. It made me beholden to income in ways non-sexual work didn’t. I, and society, attached a monetary value to my appearance.”
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Lights! Camera! Wet Wipes! Can Intimacy Coordinators Make Porn Sets Safer?
“Intimacy coordinators can ensure sets are broadly safer – including STI testing and a consent and boundaries list.”
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Sex Work Damaged My Relationship With Myself. Burlesque is Helping Me Heal
“Perhaps the real reason I didn’t put more effort into my stage appearance was that effort would have made it real and intentional, effort would have made me a professional, and not just some co-ed who fell into it.”
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Why Do People Cheat?
“Certain people mistake sexual gratification for love, because they lack a genuine capacity for intimacy due to their immaturity of character.”
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After years of stripping, I felt burnt out from sex work. Kink reignited my flame
“The first time I walked into a man’s living room in my 8-inch heels and a strap-on harness as he looked up at me with eyes full of anticipation and nervousness, something fell into place.”
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‘I had to choose between not wanting to kill myself, or having sex’: Mental health meds can make it more difficult for women to orgasm. Doctors don’t care
“I went from having sex four to five times a week, to once in six months.”
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Quick nut: Has unfettered access to free internet porn killed men’s sexual stamina? Experts say it could play a part
Experts have concerns over the ways it’s impacting men.