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A man wholeheartedly agrees with a columnist in a recent paper about creating an amendment to abolish same-sex marriage, however, he takes it one step further: he suggest they also abolish "samish-sex" relationships, wherein overly feminine men date overly masculine women.
A young being describes coming of age on their planet. Though they spend most of their time without gender, when it comes time to get physically intimate, they meet at a kemmer-house for a short duration, as either female or male.
In a future society of solely women who have found ways to reproduce and survive after a devastating plague, a young couple and their eldest daughter encounter four human males from Earth, and they anticipate the impending end of their matriarchal society.
Throughout time and space, women struggle to gain control of their bodies.
In a matriarchal world, a stay-at-home husband’s routine is disrupted when his rebellious childhood friend comes to visit and begins questioning the unfair treatment of men.
In a society where women are prohibited from wearing clothing unless they are married, one woman risks friendships and her livelihood to remain free and unmarried, but finds that she cannot escape the social stigma of being unclothed.
In a dystopian society, a young widow is placed in a holding facility to spend her days learning home economics until she's chosen to be the wife of a new man.
After a frustrating date—upset by the way even sex between women is shaped by patriarchal forces—a lesbian in NYC has sex with a male friend from college, determined to prioritize her pleasure over her learned instinct to satisfy the interests and egos of men.
In a story inspired by the incel phenmenon, Nats, a sex worker in Capetown, decides to provide the voice for growgirls, the latest line of sexdolls, made out of artificially grown organs. After she is exposed to the public as the voice actress, Nats is haunted by a violent stalker.
A middle-aged woman living in the suburbs reflects on three moments in her life that have made her question her understanding of love and sexuality — meeting an expectation-defying girl in her youth, attending a bodybuilding competition with her family, and watching her hairdresser transform into a different person.
