vivliv:In both mainstream feminist discourse and in rolequeer theory, sex within the charmed circle
vivliv:In both mainstream feminist discourse and in rolequeer theory, sex within the charmed circle or its shorthand “charmed sex”, refers to attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to sex that are considered “normal and good” in the dominant culture (the “overculture”). The terms reference an essay written in 1984 by Gayle Rubin called “Thinking Sex” in which Rubin introduced what she called the “Charmed Circle”. Rubin uses the visualization of a circle divided into inner and outer portions to describe how different social groups with different social values applied those values to sexual behaviors, placing certain behaviors in the inner-most “good and natural” portion (e.g., heterosexual, monogamous, coupled, unpaid sex in private between two people who are married to each other) and certain other behaviors in the circle’s outskirts due to being “bad and unnatural” (e.g., queer, polyamorous, sex in exchange for money in public between five people who just met).This seems relevant now as we see the expulsion of those outside of the charmed circle from tumblr -- source link
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