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February 2016

February 16, 2016

On Beyond Valentine’s Day!

I've got two great essays to share now that Valentine's Day is over, and you have...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Breaking Strains for Robots and Women

The ever-excellent cultural critic Alyssa Rosenberg has written a great essay today titled "Want to...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

Why Make People Derive the Rules for Sex Themselves?

I'll be sending the monthly update on my book Arriving At Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that...

February 11, 2015

Ethical Sex: Paying attention to the consequences of “No”

A friend of mine shared an excellent essay with me on ways to understand consent....

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Throwing Spaghetti at the Modern Dating Wall

I've been seeing a fair amount in my feeds (both RSS and social media) about...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

“Safety” is a Piss-Poor Pitch for Chastity

A recent First Things post aimed to arm its readers with a positive case for chastity, one...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Avoiding Rape-Adjacent Sex

I've seen a bunch of pieces about California's proposed Yes-Means-Yes law (which only applies to public college...

September 2014

September 28, 2014

But Who Will I Take Care Of? [Desire of the Everlasting Hills]

Last week, I had the pleasure of seeing Desire of the Everlasting Hills at a screening...

September 25, 2014

What’s Wrong with the Cuddling App?

I've been trying to work out exactly how I feel about Cuddlr, the new app...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Selling Beauty Short

Nathan Biberdorf would like us all to stop affirming each other by asserting that everyone is...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Fear of the Friendzone, Wire Monkeys, and Communion

Why do people have so much contempt for "the Friendzone"? Part of the problem is...

May 28, 2014

Making a Home for the Homely in Romance

I don't follow the opera world, but critics made enough of a stir about the...

May 18, 2014

A Trans-Atlantic Dating Gap

By playing the clip below, you can get a sense of my level of bafflement...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Getting Sex Ed from Literature

Just to follow on from yesterday's AmCon post about the importance of the liberal arts (and...

June 2013

June 08, 2013

Sex Ed is Obviously Meant to Teach…

Last Friday, I was on Sheila Liaugminas's Relevant Radio show ("A Closer Look") with a...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

The Rotten Orange and the Kingslayer

Calah Alexander kicked off a Patheos Catholic-wide conversation about certain kinds of abstinence-only education with...

January 2013

January 02, 2013

Two Terrible Ways to Have Sex

Eaton of Growing up Goddy has written a much needed jeremiad against a poisonous strain...

December 2012

December 12, 2012

Superpowered Feminism

This was going to be a short post, but there were a lot of good...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

I’m at First Things today!

Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles...

August 24, 2012

Aaaahhh! Aaaaahhhhh! AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhHHHH!

That's my knee jerk reaction to Hanna Rosin's new piece for the Atlantic on whether women...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

A little about the queer stuff

I had some major qualms about talking to a writer for the Blaze, but I...

June 12, 2012

2012 Queer Blogathon [Index Post]

In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising...

June 11, 2012

What dating process would give rise to companionate marriages? [Blogathon 11/12]

This post is number eleven of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

Companionate Marriage for Everyone? [Blogathon 10/12]

This post is number ten of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

How Critical is Sexual Desire to Human Identity? [Blogathon 8/12]

This post is number eight of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

June 11, 2012

“The rumba is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire” [Blogathon 2/12]

This post is number two of twelve for the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon. I'm responding...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality

One of the reasons I found the "gay brownshirts" argument so frustrating is that it's...

May 21, 2012

What are we going to do about homosocial friendship?

Last night was the season finale of Sherlock (which I hope you were all watching),...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Worlds We’re Not Having Sex In

There was a lot of backlash to my Soup Nazi Approach to Sexuality post and...

September 21, 2011

Sexual Responsibility and Culpability

Looking through the comments thread for “Soup Nazi Approach to Sex” it looks like there...