{"id":16181,"date":"2019-03-05T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=16181"},"modified":"2019-03-22T21:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T15:43:28","slug":"brushstrokes-risky-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-risky-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Risky Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First dates can be a source of both excitement and anxiety \u2013 the possibility of finding a connection someone new is endlessly exhilarating, but the uncertainty around what to expect can be unnerving. Almost always, you subconsciously end up weighing out the \u201crisks\u201d: what if your consent is violated? What if you find yourself vulnerable and in harm\u2019s way? When wrestling with such thoughts, the difficulty of making choices around one\u2019s safety while continuing to remain optimistic around the possibility of pleasure and a new relationship is a complicated balance to strike. The comic Risky Date\u00a0<\/em>by Robot Hugs highlights the complexity of this balance in poignant detail.<\/p>\n

Can view more of the artist’s comics here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.robot-hugs.com\/risky-date\/<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First dates can be a source of both excitement and anxiety \u2013 the possibility of finding a connection someone new is endlessly exhilarating, but the uncertainty around what to expect can be unnerving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":16238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1943,7],"tags":[24,149,97,1953,1954,254,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-16181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-choice-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-brushstrokes-2","12":"tag-choice","13":"tag-consent","14":"tag-date","15":"tag-risks","16":"tag-sexual-violence","17":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":606,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16181"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16616,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions\/16616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}