Cory Silverberg's Blog, page 29
June 19, 2011
Sex Research Shocker: Teens Are Not Monkeys
How may studies do we need to tell us that teens and adolescents critically assess sex and gender information around them and develop their own thoughts and feelings in response, before parents, educators, and politicians will take note?
If you talk with teens and ask them where they learn about sex and gender, and how they come for form their own thoughts and feelings on the subject (news flash #2: they actually form their own beliefs, which may be related but different from those of...
June 14, 2011
Does Empathy Make Us Orgasmic or Do Orgasms Give Us Empathy?
A paper published this month in the Journal of Adolescent Health turns our attention to a much under researched area of sexual health; pleasure. Specifically the authors, Adena Galinsky and Freya Sonenstein from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health used data collected by the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and examined associations between individual reporting on sexual pleasure and self-reports of autonomy, self-esteem, and empathy.
The researchers point o...
June 12, 2011
Sex Question of the Week: Alzheimer's, Sex Work, and Desire
There used to be a game show on TV that involved a contestant being paired up with a B-list celebrity. The celebrity would have a list of words, which they would read out one at a time, and the contestant would have to figure out what the words had in common. I can't remember the name of it, and it might have only been on in Canada, but it came to mind as I wrote out the three terms mentioned in this blog's headline; Alzheimer's disease, sex work, and sexual desire.
These three ideas...
June 9, 2011
Interactive Friday Readings
I have a stack of sex research that I have to get through before I bother you with it, so in the meantime I wanted to share two pieces of interactive reading from the past few weeks that I'm finally getting caught up on, plus one of my favorite columns which I haven't recommended here before.
AIDSVu
A good example of sex tech, this website offers an interactive map of the U.S. with overlays of HIV rates, testing sites, NIH-funded prevention trials, HIV volunteer opportunities, as well as...
June 7, 2011
Poll: Asking Ourselves Questions About Weinergate
I was in New York when the creaking doors of Weinergate began to open (or close, depending on your political affiliation) on Representative Anthony Weiner. There was obviously something off about his insistence that his Twitter account had been hacked and his simultaneous unwillingness to deny that the crotch shot was his.
Since then, and since his admission on Monday that...
