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December 2016

December 02, 2016

If You Love Dance, You Love Diversity

Most dance is multicultural in nature, and practiced by people who are guaranteed to be...

December 01, 2016

#FolkloreThursday: Folk Dance

Folk dances are traditional cultural dances, which means they convey traditional values that people hold...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

You Can’t Make or Unmake Someone Gay, So Stop Trying (And Stop Fearing Us)

The rates of any population that are non-heterosexual tend to stay stable over time. Conversion...

November 13, 2016

Glimpses of Sexual Entitlement in the History of Sex Education

Sexual desire has been normalized (for white heterosexual men) in the sex education of the...

November 09, 2016

We’re Stuck Sharing This Country, So Let’s Not Eradicate Each Other, Okay?

Many of us are vulnerable & we know it. In order to coexist, we're asking...

November 07, 2016

Does Religion Cause Sex Addiction?

Maybe cause is too strong a word, but researchers are starting to discover some fascinating...

November 06, 2016

The War on Sex

We need to talk about the war on sex in order to understand what it...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Unethical Pelvic Exams: The Reason Behind At Your Cervix Documentary

It's not uncommon for medical students to learn invasive procedures on unconscious patients. This documentary...

October 24, 2016

Is Belly Dance for Cis Het Women? Part 2

Does intersectionality play a part in how belly dance and belly dancers are perceived? You...

October 23, 2016

Is Belly Dance for Cis Het Women? Part 1

Is there anything inherently "feminine" about belly dancing? If so, does that obligate us to...

October 08, 2016

Why the Language of Porn Addiction Matters

Has anyone else noticed concept-creep when discussing porn and sex addiction? How we use language...

October 04, 2016

What I Believe About Sex

Very little sex knowledge is worth having faith in. My atheist and scholarly principles guide...

October 03, 2016

Responsive vs. Spontaneous Desire

We live in a culture that normalizes spontaneous arousal, which means everyone with a different...

October 02, 2016

Everyone’s Arousal Works Like This. Yes, Everyone’s.

Do you know how your SIS & SES work relative one another? What am I...

October 01, 2016

Men and Women: The Same Parts, Organized Differently

Destroy the gender binary. We're all unique snowflakes that share a common origin (thanks, homology).

September 2016

September 30, 2016

The Importance of Context (for Sex, Not Folklore)

Context means something different when it comes to arousal. Yes I just made a sex...

September 13, 2016

The Metaphor of Sex Addiction

The sex addiction model (and metaphor) is ubiquitous in contemporary American culture. Who bears the...

September 12, 2016

Dreams of Black Swans: Falsifying Sex Addiction

Bringing empirical scientific studies to the discussion of sex addiction opens up whole new avenues...

September 07, 2016

A History of (Hyper-)Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (2/2)

Historically & today, the imagination is thought to fuel sexual pleasure but put its user...

September 06, 2016

A History of (Hyper-)Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (1/2)

Tune in to learn about Enlightenment discussions of sexual pleasure, over-heated uteruses, novel-reading, & sexual-moral...

September 05, 2016

Genitals, Stigma, & Shame (or why camel toe needs to die in a fire)

Genital shaming needs to stop, and that starts with awareness of our language use &...

September 04, 2016

The Politician’s Body

Those awful Trump statues have a meaningful message about how we perceive the bodies of...

September 02, 2016

Barriers for Oral Sex – What Madness is This?!

Using barriers for oral sex may not be trendy in your circles, but there are...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Upholding Boundaries Feels Good

Talking about safe sex is such a drag, right? Except that it's not, especially when...

August 28, 2016

Where Stereotypes about Bisexuality and Human Rights Clash

You can't tell if someone's bisexual just by looking at them or by looking at...

August 27, 2016

Sex Shouldn’t Be About “Getting Away with It” (But Here’s Why It Is)

Needing to get away with having sex is problematic, but pervasive in America. Sometimes this...

August 26, 2016

Implications of the FDA Blood Donation Policy

We humans don’t do absolutes very well & thus it makes little sense to me...

August 24, 2016

Let Members of the Adult Industry Decide What to Do with Their Bodies

If you're painting a picture of porn actors as vectors of disease, you're doing it...

August 23, 2016

Act Like a Man: Sexuality and Masculinity in the 21st Century (Woodhull Session 2)

Masculinity is taught as an all-or-nothing identity, an ideal which it's impossible to actually fulfill....

August 19, 2016

Sexual Trauma in Modern Maternity Care (Woodhull Session 1)

The trauma that can occur during a normal hospital birth might have long-lasting consequences for...

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