Saturday Link Love: Viagra, White Saviors, and Sexual Politics

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Inclusion in this list does not imply full agreement.

Dear Sister Veit, does your health plan cover Viagra for non procreative sex? by Dr. Jen Gunter—“Does your health plan cover drugs for erectile dysfunction for non procreative sex and do you require that all men on your health plan provide some kind of proof that the intended sex is indeed marital?”

All Complementation Sex Is Rape, on Samantha Field—“Because, when it comes right down to the bare bones of it, most of a woman’s sexual encounters with men are unhealthy, abusive, coercive, or, yes, even rape.”

Not In My Name, on Feministing—“Anti-trans legislation is just the latest in the GOP’s efforts to co-opt feminist anti-violence activism to advance its own discriminatory, dangerous agenda, all under the guise of paternalist protection.”

Shandra Woworuntu: My life as a sex-trafficking victim, on BBC—“In Indonesia, the traffickers came looking for me at my mother’s house, and she and my daughter had to go into hiding.”

What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education, on PBS—“I think framing this hero teacher narrative, particularly for folks who are not from these communities, is problematic.”

The Sexual Politics of 2016, on The New York Times—“These days we’re living through another great redefinition of masculinity.”

The Death of Moral Relativism, on The Atlantic—“America’s new moral code is much different than it was prior to the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s.”

Tiny Tombstones: Inside the FLDS Graveyard for Babies Born from Incest, on Broadly—“Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines.”

Why some conservatives want to stop Donald Trump at all costs, on Vox—“Saving their party might be worth letting Hillary Clinton win the presidency.”