
Inside the Furry War Playing Out on BlueskyAug 22
anthropomorphic tigers and "puppygirl shock collars" are flooding (some) bluesky users' feeds — and people are starting to push back, signaling a larger vibe shift on the platform
Sep 14, 2022
Editor's Note: The promise of sexual liberation was the freedom to love as we choose, and who could possibly stand opposed to so noble a position? But decades after the unwinding of America’s traditional sexual mores, no new morality has clearly emerged, and young people increasingly find themselves navigating a culture of sexual anarchy, in which — provided an act is consensual — there is no “right” or “wrong.” Such thinking has brought us inevitably to the rise of OnlyFans, the normalization of sex work, and the curious story of Stanford University’s sugar babies.
Nicola Buskirk is the founder of publishing house Elessar Books, and is the filmmaker/director of upcoming documentary The Marriage Pact. She’s also a recent graduate of Stanford, and she guests today with an investigation into the strange phenomenon of wealthy, extraordinarily well-connected young women on her campus turning to the world of sexts for cash.
-Solana