To browse Academia. This guidebook challenges societal norms surrounding sexuality, particularly the stigma attached to the term "slut" and its implications for personal and collective sexual ethics.
It advocates for a reclamation of the term, suggesting it can embody empowerment and ethical expression of sexuality through consensual and informed relationships. The text explores diverse aspects of non-monogamous relationships, emphasizing the potential of sexual exploration to enhance intimacy, promote personal growth, and contribute positively to communities.
Between us, we represent a fairly large slice of the pie that is sexual diversity. Dossie is a therapist in private practice in San Francisco, specializing in relationship issues and alternative sexualities.
She has identified as lesbian for the past twenty-five years and still values her experience as both bisexual and heterosexual before that. Liszt, a pen name she used back then when her sons were still minors. Now that they're grown and independent, she has gone back to using her real name. Janet lived as a teenaged slut in college but then essayed monogamy in a traditional heterosexual marriage for well over a decade. Since the end of that marriage, she has not consid ered monogamy an option for her.
While most people would call her "bisexual," she thinks of herself as gender-bent and can't quite figure out how sexual orientation is supposed to work when you're sometimes male and sometimes female. She's married to a bio-guy whose gender is as flexible as hers, which is less complicated than it sounds. She makes her living as a writer, publisher, and teacher. Together, we have been lovers, dear friends, coauthors, and co conspirators for a decade and a half, in and out of various other rela tionships, homes, and projects.
