Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
Ronnie Koenig, AlterNet. October 21, 2009. Screaming at women about their appearances reinforces some men's sense of dominance -- but it's street harassment.
Cherry Trifle, SeXis Magazine. October 5, 2009. Thanks to a media marketing machine bent on making money by making women feel bad, women used to pour Lysol in their vaginas. Some still douche. But why?
Saucy Sarah, SeXis Magazine. October 1, 2009. Being bisexual means that you are attracted to members of both sexes, even if you’re not sleeping with them. Here are some things bisexuality doesn’t mean.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. By and large, women do far more housework than men and are better at it. It's creating a dirty situation.
Elizabeth Black, SeXis Magazine. September 24, 2009. He told me he still wanted to have sex. But what could we do? There had to be a (pill-free) solution.
Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check. September 21, 2009. In India, huge dowry demands have led families to use criminal gangs that kidnap men and force them into wedlock. The women in these unions fare even worse.
Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom. August 28, 2009. Casual sex isn't for everybody, but there is a lot to be learned about yourself through purely physical-based encounters.
Meika Loe, National Sexuality Resource Center. August 17, 2009. The little blue pill was supposed to transform our attitudes towards aging and sexuality. It merely reinforced bad cultural stereotypes about older men.
Liz Langley, AlterNet. July 21, 2009. Nudism might be a marginalized lifestyle today, but eons ago it was all the rage. And no wonder: public nudity is natural, healthy and fun.
Esté Yarmosh, The Women's Media Center. July 7, 2009. Young readers of the popular books encounter women shoved back into traditional gender stereotypes that have taken years of effort to overcome.
Lynn Harris, AlterNet. June 26, 2009. Intimate partner violence doesn't always show up in police photos as swollen bruises. Instead, the evidence might be the victim's pregnant belly.
Andy Wright, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. Withdrawal is one of the oldest forms of birth control. Yet, our gender biases -- along with some very bad science -- have made it taboo.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. June 18, 2009. The shock jock is worried that the "Christian heterosexual married male" is under attack.
Marcela Valente, IPS News. June 13, 2009. The International Planned Parenthood Federation launched the world's first declaration of sexual rights in the Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Nicholas L. Syrett, National Sexuality Resource Center. June 4, 2009. Frat houses are a haven for a masculinity that takes sexual conquest as one of its defining characteristics. But frats have not always been this way.
Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. May 23, 2009. Thankfully it's not a romantic comedy or sappy morality play in which the prostitute leaves the business to be with the guy.
