---
title: "Learning Curves: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Used Dirty Line Drawings to Turn Us into Feminists"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/media-coverage/learning-curves-bodies-used-dirty-line-drawings-turn-us-feminists"
section: Media Coverage
---
[Donate](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/donate)

[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Learning Curves: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Used Dirty Line Drawings to Turn Us into Feminists

Nerve.com • May 12, 2005

> The fierce feminist analysis, nowhere to be found in the average reference book, remains.  
>   
> It’s a good thing, because our sex lives may be even more embattled now. With TV gays making network execs rich while real-life queers can’t even get a tax break, OBOS‘s loving — and lusty — depiction of lesbian sex, coupled with its explorations of institutionalized homophobia, remains nothing less than radical. And as abstinence-only advocates tout the value of technical virginity — and their young charges comply by substituting unprotected oral or anal sex for vaginal intercourse — OBOS continues to provide comprehensive sex education without a hint of compromise.

  
**Read the full story:** [Learning Curves: How Our Bodies, Ourselves Used Dirty Line Drawings to Turn Us into Feminists](http://www.nerve.com/screeningroom/books/ourbodiesourselves) by Kara Jesella

![](/assets/img/monogram.webp)### *Why You Can* **Trust Us** 

- We rigorously evaluate all content
- We embrace a reproductive justice framework
- We don’t accept ads or sell products
- We reject funding from the pharmaceutical industry
- We counter misinformation and disinformation
- We address the social, political, and economic factors that affect health and sexuality

[read more](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/why-you-can-trust-us)

Share

[](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)[](javascript:void();)