Sex Questions from the Twittersphere: Have Stone Butches Changed?
By Dr. Carol Queen • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Carol Queen, Good Advice“is “stone butch” with us today? if so, has this sexuality changed, remained the same, both?”
I’d say yes to that, although many of the people who would have been identified as stone butch in the old days are now viewed as genderqueer or some variation thereof; whether or not she/ze/he’s a very butch woman or a transman, some such masculine folks are more comfortable being the “do-er” (top, active partner) sexually (as if you can’t be active as the “receptive” partner… oh, words fail us). But the notion of “stone” is two-sided: on the one hand, it means “very very”; on the other, it refers to an unwillingness (or orientation away from) being the receptive partner during sex.
