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Gloria Steinem: Flawed, But a Hero

Gloria Steinem spent her entire life fighting, strategizing, envisioning, compromising, and creating coalitions so that women and men everywhere would have better lives.

She wasn’t perfect–she supported the ghastly Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s, supported the poisonous idea of Repressed & Recovered Memory, and believed in the censorship of pornography.

But ultimately, she left a titanic legacy that puts her squarely in the heavens alongside Harvey Milk, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and Daniel Ellsberg. She…

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Does Sex Still Matter?

In modern America, sexual expression can’t simply be a private act.

Whether people acknowledge it or not, America’s ongoing War On Sex means that each sexual choice we make either challenges or supports a complex political ecology. This structure involves fundamental issues like who controls our bodies; whose relationships are legitimate; which activities are considered “normal”; and the role of erotic pleasure in the lives of adults and of children.

Consider the current sexual issues now under scrutiny by the government…

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Sex Questions I Usually Don’t Answer

Every week I ask patients lots and lots of questions. Sometimes I get a straight answer. Often, someone will dance around an issue, or avoid the question by answering a different one.

When patients ask me a question, though, I either give them a direct answer–or I challenge the question itself.

Here are examples of questions that I generally don’t answer directly–because I’m challenging the assumptions…

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The State Of Our Sexual Freedom

Approaching the anniversary of our country’s freedom, what’s the state of our own sexual freedom?

There are many external restrictions on our erotic expression such as the criminalization of abortion, attempts to eliminate adult pornography, and the censorship of both school and adult libraries.

But there are many internal restrictions we place on our own sexual expression–and these prevent us from using the sexual rights that we do have.

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