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A conversation about the social media attacks on Prostasia

Staff ContributorOctober 10, 202132 Comments

Early in September Prostasia was the center of a social media firestorm on Twitter. The attacks started with opponents of sex workers, but soon spread across the political...

From the Newsletter: The Blue Lagoon

Ruth AllisonOctober 3, 202122 Comments

Editor’s Note: Prostasia is reprinting useful material from our newsletter for blog readers. To keep up to date on everything happening at Prostasia, you can sign up...

Retraumatization and cultural context

Jamie SnellSeptember 27, 2021Leave a comment

Twenty years ago, the Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study revolutionized our understanding of trauma’s impact on survivors of abuse. Today, more...

BDSM can help heal from trauma

Shaye WentworthSeptember 12, 20215 Comments

BDSM, or Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism, and Masochism, is not usually associated with healing. Instead, BDSM in popular culture is usually portrayed...

Sex, disability, and embracing a second adolescence

Andrew GurzaAugust 8, 2021Leave a comment

We all look back on our teen years at some point in our lives, right? Some of us look back on those moments with a fondness for them; old memories flooding back to us like...

Europe’s chat control mandate begins

Jeremy MalcolmAugust 1, 20216 Comments

Secret artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance tools have been developed by tech companies at the urging of governments, and quietly deployed against millions of...