It’s Thanksgiving, so let’s give thanks for sex. Not just the huffing and puffing, the in-ing and out-ing, the sloshing around and drying off. Let’s give thanks for all the sexual rights we enjoy here in the U.S.—which billions of people in Russia, the Arab world, and many parts of Asia and Africa will never […]
The New York Times recently ran a piece called The Sex Toys in the Attic. It’s a fairly mundane story about disposing of things in advance that might embarrass those who clean up after one’s death. Mundane except for the fact that the author specifically mentions “sex paraphernalia.” Aside from the stilted language—are we talking […]
This week I’m in Washington, DC giving very different presentations to two very different groups. I’ll be giving Congressional briefings on science-based sex education. And I’ll be giving a half-day webinar for the American Psychological Association on couples counseling & psychotherapy around pornography. These two subjects might seem unrelated, but they aren’t. Consider: If young […]
Sixty years ago this weekend, biologist, professor, and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey changed every American’s life once again by publishing his second book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Here’s what he discovered and published: • Women have orgasms • Many women have these orgasms without sexual intercourse • Straight women think about, and have, […]
Since 1997, the First Amendment Center has supported an annual survey of American attitudes about the First Amendment. Can you name the five rights guaranteed by the first amendment? (See below *) Only 2/3 of Americans can name one. After freedom of speech, familiarity with the First Amendment (FA) drops dramatically. Over 1/3 of Americans […]
Book review: Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, And A Christian Right, by Judith Lynne Hanna (2012, University of Texas Press) Let me tell you why you should care about strip clubs. Or rather, let me tell you about Judy Hanna’s new book about why should care about strip clubs. Anthropologist Dr. Judith Hanna is the […]