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November 1, 2013
Before the Hair Grows
President Obama may have proclaimed September as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month but where I live the topic is much more in your face throughout the month of November, thanks to the organizers behind Movember, a month of facial hair growing for consciousness and fundraising related to prostate and testicular cancer.
I have a deeply ambivalent relationship to facial hair (my own and others) and so I thought I'd sneak in something before the hair started to flow.
Usually when it comes...
October 28, 2013
Frightful Frolics
For the people who love Halloween it's hard to imagine what could make it more sexy. You get to dress up, you get to be someone else and yourself all at once. There's usually candy and rarely an expectation of a gift. And it's all over the morning after.
What more could you want in a holiday?
If this doesn't sound like you, or if you're still trying to figure out who or what you'll be, and with who, we've got five tips to bump up the sexiness on the scariest night of the year.
Read More - Ha...
October 25, 2013
Nightmarish Novelties of the Adult Kind
Sometimes scary is fun. Like when you're a kid and someone steals your nose, or magically separates the tip of their thumb from the rest of their hand. And sometimes scary is just scary.
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October 14, 2013
Sex Positions from the Inside Out
With Halloween around the corner I realize the image to the right may seem a bit macabre. It's not meant to be. This is a sex position.
It's one of several images produced as part of an innovative study, a collaboration between medical researchers and digital imaging specialists who wanted to know more about how we move when we have sex.
Specifically they wanted to know about movement during intercourse, and even more specifically about how our hips move, so as to offer advice on what sex po...
October 11, 2013
Weekend Reading: Bingo, Op-eds, and Pick Up Lines
My electronic devices have started beeping at me every Friday night, fighting over what I "should" be reading over the weekend. Usually the algorithms have it all wrong (I guess maybe I should be interested in "Fall Knitted Capes" and "10 Things to Do With Leaves" but I'm just not). Until my devices take an interest in sexuality I guess I'll have to make my own lists.
How to Hit on Someone in a Wheelchair
How tos that pretend there's one way to do anything are a drag. This one isn't. It manag...
October 9, 2013
Sexuality, Disability, and Film at the Sins Soiree
This weekend if you're near Oakland, California the multi-membered, multi-talented, and multi-faceted performance company Sins Invalid is hosting a preview of their forthcoming film Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty. Sins is dedicated to "centralizing artists of color and queer and gender variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized from social discourse" and since 2006 they have been producing a yearly show that combines storytelling, music, dance, and thea...
October 7, 2013
Sex Question of the Week: Unwanted Orgasm Fixation
Scientists usually talk about sex as something natural, foundational to our existence given that without procreation humans would likely cease to be. I understand what they mean, but as someone who deals less with populations and more with people, I think about our sex lives as something far more precarious.
Our sex lives can be so easily thrown off course. The course not being some predestined, hardwired idea of what sex is supposed to be but instead a course guided by our desires and shaped...
October 1, 2013
Participate in a Major Documentary Event
I mean that literally. This month's crowdfunding profile is a feature documentary about a pivotal figure in the historical and present struggle for civil rights and justice (as well as real live regular person) the incomparable Miss Major. Major! the documentary is precisely the kind of project crowdfunding was made for, not only because of the singular importance of its subject, but for the uniqueness of the filmmaking process. I asked the filmmakers, Annalise Ophelian and StormMiguel Flore...
September 27, 2013
The Labia Library
I love libraries. I spent a lot of time in them as a kid. I still remember the feel of the carpet and the smell of the stacks in the library that was ten minutes from where I grew up. As an adult there are few people who help me navigate the world with as much consideration and thought as librarians (my therapist is a close second). So when an email arrived in my inbox the other day advertising the Labia Library, there wasn't much question of me clicking through.
The library in an initiative...
September 23, 2013
Stop Telling Women to Smile
One of the things I like best about being a part of crowdfunding projects related to gender and sexuality is that those projects are so often the target of various kinds of censorship. Artists, activists, and educators are routinely asked to compromise on some aspect of their vision in order to get the funding to make something happen on a scale that matches their vision.
For better or worse, when you support crowdfunding, you are giving someone the freedom to do it their own way. Sometimes...
