Every June when Pride Month rolls around and all my queer friends gear up to do the Dyke Marches and Gay Pride Parades, I watch the bustle of activity and the swelling awareness of the power of making ourselves visible. I wonder if will we ever have a size-acceptance movement that is capable of the [...]
Imagine my shock when, at the tender age of 22 or so, I suddenly realized that I was unable to masturbate. The problem? Simple: I was just too damn heavy, and the position in which I had learned to masturbate (lying on my belly with my hand sandwiched underneath me) was no longer feasible. I’d [...]
Welcome to Fat Sex History month! We’ve had Black History Month and Women’s History Month already this year, and National Masturbation Month is right around the corner — so it’s high time. Besides, I figure everyone deserves at least one historical role model, and that includes those of us who know that more cushion for [...]
One of the most toxic things to ever rear up and smack me in the sex life was a simple sentence. “How do you have sex with a fat chick?” I overheard one boorish teenaged guy in my high school ask another. “Pick a fold and fuck it!” the other cackled back, and both of [...]
Okay, okay, so I got it for Chanukah. It’d still make a damned fine Valentine’s Day present, and darlin’, trust me — any book that can keep me oohing, aahing, and sighing all the way from Chanukah until Valentine’s Day is going to be a damned good present any time of the year.
The book in [...]
Shakespeare was right — all the world’s a stage, and the men and women merely players. But it’s not always easy to play your part when you haven’t got the right costume, a problem which plagues those of us who are bigger than the so-called “standard sizes” found in most clothing stores and catalogues. It’s [...]
“So anyway,” my interview subject continued, “I don’t know why it didn’t dawn on me earlier that I was attracted to fat partners — after all, the first person I can remember getting a really intensely sexual crush on was Santa Claus!”
I was doing research on fat and sexuality for my book Big Big Love: [...]
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