Tamura Lomax, RH Reality Check. November 22, 2008. A recent Salon article declared 'First Lady Got Back.' Does the piece tap into racist assumptions about black women's sexuality?
Rosie White, American Sexuality Magazine. November 21, 2008. Female spies have been the subject of cultural fascination since Mata Hari, but the realities they face are quite different from fiction.
Susannah Breslin, The Frisky. November 14, 2008. From her hairstyle to her politics, America remains obsessed with the female politician who seemingly came out of nowhere.
Stephanie Auteri, The Frisky. November 7, 2008. Lately my libido levels had been low and intimacy with my husband was suffering. Was I really about to masturbate in public?
Martha McCaughey, American Sexuality Magazine. October 24, 2008. The watered-down evolutionary psychology prevalent in pop culture enables some men to rationalize sexist double standards about relationships.
Andi Zeilser, Seal Press. October 16, 2008. Promoting pleasure for women has been difficult, thanks to a pop culture view of female sexuality riddled with moralism and classic double standards.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. October 10, 2008. The word "desperation" has disappeared from the definition of "cougar"; words like smart, successful and funny have taken its place.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. October 5, 2008. Political leaders are nervous about supporting comprehensive sex education in schools. But it may be a bigger political liability not to.
Arthur Versluis, American Sexuality Magazine. October 3, 2008. From antiquity on, there were people in the West who held that spirituality and sexuality were not necessarily mortal enemies.
Christopher White, American Sexuality Magazine. September 27, 2008. There are many ways of helping young people navigate these years of sexual exploration. Just don't forget you were once a teen yourself.
Wendy Atterberry, The Frisky. September 26, 2008. There are plenty of reasons to marry, but it's not something that always makes couples happier. Why can't my family understand that?
John Santelli, Leslie Kantor, RH Reality Check. September 26, 2008. Abstinence-only programs contain medical inaccuracies and fail to help young people to change behavior.
Kelli Conlin, AlterNet. September 19, 2008. Kids that don't get sex ed in school don't run to the Bible for information -- they get their ideas about sex from sordid teen dramas.
Simcha, The Frisky. September 18, 2008. Having 'friends with benefits' can be fun. But it can also destroy friendships and stand in the way of real relationships.
Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog. September 16, 2008. Everyone can learn something from the kind of sex that isn't overwhelmingly defined by one partner's "performance."
Dr. Belisa Vranich, Huffington Post AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. September 5, 2008. Maybe what we need are groups to heal our shame about sex, rather than programs that only serve to reinforce our neuroses.
Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet. August 29, 2008. Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.
Bernadette Barton, On The Issues Magazine. August 20, 2008. Our culture and media are obsessed with strippers. But in real life women who dance for a living inspire rabid sexism.
