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August 2013

August 26, 2013

Does Where You Meet Matter?

Online dating is here to stay. That much is clear. But is meeting someone online...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Roman Bracketology

So it all comes down to this week, for Catholics. And in a at least...

March 04, 2013

Shining like the Sun

Although there are perhaps more timely subjects to tackle here this week, including the dueling,...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

The Suicide Rate has Risen: What Predicts Suicide Ideation?

With the news of troubled country music star Mindy McCready’s death from suicide, a month...

February 11, 2013

Thank you, Papa: Comments on a Unique Papal Succession

Lots of us are thinking and writing with an unusual mixture of heavy heart and...

February 04, 2013

Porn Use and Support for Same-Sex Marriage, Part II

Although I didn't blog on it here, back in December I published a piece about...

February 04, 2013

Reflections on the new F-Word

I spent the weekend in South Texas at a generous friend’s ranch. It just happens...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Hang in There, Mom and Dad

I’ve been crunching NFSS numbers again, mostly assessing the sexual and relationship behaviors of young...

January 15, 2013

What Good are “Crippled” Children?

I commonly teach an introductory sociology course each semester to approximately 200 students. I run...

December 2012

December 03, 2012

The Naked Truth about Self-Esteem?

About a week ago a curious story began to make the media rounds. Apparently porn...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Liberal Women Wish for More Sex. Why?

OK, I’ve been at it again, meaning that I’ve been exploring associations between various measures...

November 19, 2012

Why David Petraeus Cheated

Yet again the media is alive with speculation about why men in positions of power...

November 12, 2012

When Data Go Bad

Imagine if some evangelical social scientists set out 20 years ago to document how the...

November 05, 2012

Democrats: Losing their Religion

It’s election week, and we’re inundated with polls, predictions, and predilections, so I’ll keep this...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Is Massive Job Creation Likely?

While the third and final presidential debate focused on foreign policy, it was notable that...

October 22, 2012

The Closing Gender Gap in Infidelity

A friend passed along this article from the Wall Street Journal, about the shrinking gap...

October 22, 2012

Why “Fact Checking” Falls Short

Perhaps it's my imagination, but "fact checking" this election season seems to have reached a...

October 15, 2012

Young Women and Porn Use: What Does the Data Say?

Recently I gave a talk at a Christian college about the contemporary mating market, and...

October 01, 2012

NFSS data release

This isn't much of a blog post, but I thought I'd note here that I've...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Asexuality

Amid all the rancor these days over who’s sexually attracted to whom—and what public policymakers...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

Part 2: More Info about the Study on Adult Children of Parents who have Same-Sex Relationships

Part 2 in a series on the New Family Structures Study I conducted. Just a few links,...

June 10, 2012

Q & A with Mark Regnerus about the background of his new study

Part 1 in a series on the New Family Structures Study I conducted. Figured it...

June 04, 2012

Liking the Quotes more than the Books

I read, for the first time, Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Sexual Expectations and Realities in Marriage

Who out there thinks they’re having too much sex? The answer appears to be: nearly...

May 21, 2012

The Centrality of Sex and the Failure of Unstable Relationships

[An excerpt from Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about...

May 14, 2012

Good News and Bad News in Marriage and Divorce Statistics

The subject of marriage is on many minds lately, not the least of which are...

May 07, 2012

Wolves in Gaudy Sheepskin Clothing

“Fleecing the faithful,” it’s called. The sort of story featured on the front cover of...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

I am “in a relationship”

Culture is, among other things, the power of legitimate naming. Or so says James Hunter,...

April 25, 2012

Green is Go(o)d

Let’s start with an admission: I’m a fan of new urbanism. And old urbanism, for...

April 09, 2012

12 Curious Statistics about Today’s Young Adults

I hope to blog next week, or sometime thereafter, on the subject of affordable housing....

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