A Visual History of the Vibrator
Posting has been slow! I am sorry! Enjoy this visual history of the vibrator.
...read moreBREAKING: How you view sex determines how you view sex
There’s this study making the rounds which says that how you lose your virginity impacts the rest of your entire sexual life. Which is an accurate reading of the study, if by “your entire sexual life” you mean “roughly the next one to four years” and if by “how you lose your virginity” you actually mean “how you feel about sex.”
...read moreNewsflash: Americans Fuck
95 percent of them before marriage. NEW YORK (AP) — More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past. “This is reality-check research,” [...]
...read moreGetting Around
A wheelchair is not a chastity belt. There is a basic disablist assumption that people who use wheelchairs are essentially sexless, or at least not looked at as sexual beings. It’s assumed that they lack feeling below the waist — and that below the waist is the center of all sexual behavior. And media images [...]
...read moreSex Ed for the Stroller Set
When is it appropriate to start teaching kids about sex? At the same time you teach them about the rest of their bodies. This makes a lot of sense to me. As long as you’re giving young children the vocabulary for “toes” and “hands” and “nose,” why not give them the vocabulary for “vulva” and [...]
...read moreCollege Life: One Big Sex Carnival
Apparently we should return to single-sex dorms and bathrooms (which colleges have mixed-sex bathrooms?), promote marriage, and have parent-led “inspector committees” to track student sexual behavior. Because it’s not like college students are legal adults or anything. And according to the Washington Times article, “date rape” is such a silly term that we should put [...]
...read moreBecoming Orgasmic
I find it funny just how much I enjoy science blogs, especially since I can’t grasp the basic rules of science. Nonetheless, this is one reason why the sciences appeal to me so much: Becoming Orgasmic — A Chat With the Director of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. Julia R. Heiman. It is surprising that the [...]
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