Sex is a part of many people’s lives, yet the way that it’s depicted in media often offers a very narrow view of it—and often presumes a certain set of audience expectations and desires when choosing what to depict and how. Heteronormative porn particularly has a controlling share of representations of sex, depicting it as […]
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