Some thoughts on ending rape
Recently, I started noticing references in my Twitter feed to a Twitter account called @EndingRape. The account belongs to a man named Richard Hart, who has a Web site and book called Keep Your...
View ArticleThe last sex tips you’ll ever need
Women’s magazines love running articles, often with lurid headlines, about the amazing sex tips you can use to keep your man happy in bed (and thereby, presumably, keep your man). They’re often filled...
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Some thoughts on human rights
Today, I want to talk about the war that’s being waged in some parts of US society against contraception, sexual determinism, and women’s agency. Before I get started, though, let me say this: I am a...
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I Love Sex and I Vote
Some time ago, before Rush Limbaugh and his buddies launched their all-out assault on women in their effort to give the Democratic party a landslide victory this November, I created a bumper sticker...
View ArticleSlut-Shaming: How Framing Matters
As almost anyone with television, radio, or Internet access is no doubt aware by now, a woman named Sandra Fluke was recently attacked for three continuous days by right-wing radio commentator Rush...
View ArticleFood for Thought: Telling little girls “He hits you because he likes you”
On Views From The Couch comes this essay, You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face, which questions the idea that boys tease, bother, and harass girls because they like them: I will teach my...
View ArticleShame & Sex
http://youtu.be/8n5O9tz30So I saw this video today posted on Facebook and I really liked it, so I wanted to share it. But I also had something to say about it and my comment ended up being longer and...
View ArticleFood for Thought: The GOP’s Bizarre War on Sex
From Salon.com comes this article about the US Republican Party’s all-out assault on sexual freedom: Rick Santorum, who has compared gay sex to bestiality, outdid himself in an interview that...
View ArticleThe Problem with “Sex Addiction”
The Telegraph’s Web site recently ran an article by Dr. David Ley with the provocative title Why There’s No Such Thing as Sex Addiction: [T]here’s no standard definition of sex addiction. It hasn’t...
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Sexual Double Standards and Complicity
Quite some time ago, I had a strange dream. In this dream I’d met and made friends with a woman. Don’t recall her clearly–long black hair, big brown eyes, that’s all that stuck. Anyway, in the dream,...
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