Favorite photographs from deep in the Swedish National Heritage Board Archive.

people actually desiring sex with their partner doesn’t make them johns or punters it makes them human beings

i wouldn’t accept eight months without sex in a relationship either unless there were some very extenuating circumstances (i.e. something other than my partner just testing me to see how long i’ll tolerate it for)

no one is literally telling OSA women to purposely “withhold” sex from their male partners for 8 months.

what any radical feminist, and the empirical data, is saying is that regardless of the reason why a woman cannot have sex for 8 months, 9 times out of 10, the male will leave her or she’ll be pressured into sex.

it’s clear that a lot of men, probably most men, view their female partners as a source of sex first and foremost and will eventually leave if they fail to fulfil their ‘purpose’ in his life.

that doesn’t change the fact that actually wanting sex is normal, for both men and women, and is usually an expected part of an adult relationship that isn’t otherwise in some kind of crisis. so again, if these women - the ones posting tiktoks tracking how many times they’ve had to lie to get out of sex - never or rarely want sex with their partners, they don’t need to be with them. sharing and meeting each others needs - emotional, sexual, or otherwise - is the entire point of being in a relationship. if it’s not working more often than not, on every level, and neither party is getting what they want, nobody has to stay?

obviously, good relationships between people who love each other and have invested in a shared life should be able to weather periods where one person is giving more and getting little back. the fact that men are trash and fail at this more often than not doesn’t mean the women who were with them were unwitting prostitutes. it means a lot men are terrible people who are emotionally incapable of true partnership.

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Detective

2. investigative journalist (not that dissimilar from detective lol)

Library Table

-I was checking in two girls and knew something was off and asked to see both their ID’s. Only one had a passport and her 18th birthday was literally a week ago. The other one handed me her high school student card. We had to call the police when their pimp came in and started making threats bc we refused to check them in.

-a sex worker checked in the night before and a housekeeper went into the room the next morning and found the woman in a bloody mess. There were chunks of human tissue scattered throughout the room (the housekeeper quit after that. Honestly, housekeepers are literally on the front lines of the bullshit but that’s another story)

-something about a “couple” was offfffffff at check in. The woman was standing with her hands behind her back, had her eyes glued to the floor, and wouldn’t answer questions despite her name being on the reservation. The man was answering for her. When I asked to see her ID, he hands it to me, and when I handed it to her, her arms were covered in bruises. We didn’t let them check in

-there are two properties and one of them has an agreement with a women’s shelter. I’ve checked in women into one property only to see them come in months later to the other property under the womens shelters’ reservation with bruises and broken limbs (many of whom are indigenous women).

people actually desiring sex with their partner doesn’t make them johns or punters it makes them human beings

i wouldn’t accept eight months without sex in a relationship either unless there were some very extenuating circumstances (i.e. something other than my partner just testing me to see how long i’ll tolerate it for)

Blooming heather in the Highlands

Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933) was an archaeologist and anthropologist. Her specialty was the pre-Aztec culture of Mexico and Mesoamerican cultures.