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Quasi-Compulsory Sexuality in Communities 

Even out here in queer spaces, there isn’t even common *words* for advancing the closeness of relationships without them becoming (implicitly) sexual.

You’ve got “friend” which can mean basically anything, and then “partner” is fairly neutral, and for anything else...you’re muddling about on your own.

It’s discouraging.

Quasi-Compulsory Sexuality in Communities 

LB from @mawr is an excellent thread that I really recommend (unfortunately Mastodon isn’t great at linking to threads).

IMO as a fellow ace, the problem isn’t really that that “script” (workflow?) exists, but the total lack of alternative scripts...

Quasi-Compulsory Sexuality in Communities [1] 

There's been some conversation on the subject of sexuality in (primarily queer) communities; the tendency for folks meeting each other to follow this script over a short span of time:

1) Get to know someone
2) Cuddle with them
3) Have sex with them

This script is pretty well ingrained for many in the communities I've been part of, and on the surface there's nothing wrong with it, but it causes problems I feel should be more broadly discussed.

good morning Mastodon! rawr! today SHOULD be a good day. (as defined by RFC 2119)

RT @coffeeshopjihad@twitter.com
No idea who this little girl is, but she wins today. #WomensMarchDC

@Mous as much as the nook would be stellar as an eel tank, I don’t think so

@ElectricKeet confession: I thought it was a transistor schematic for a couple years

I made a VM kernel panic by plugging in my headphones, hows your day going?

if you’ve got a Lightning port and it doesn’t seem like the cable is quite going in all the way, you may need to get a toothpick and go to town on it.

turns out the charging socket on my phone wasn’t dying, it needed to be flossed.

I have never had to do that before on any device, ever??

okay, that's my art spam done for the day.

I should probably get some food while my notifications settle down :)

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