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Can I have my monogamy and happiness too?
Sex at Dawn The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha I’ve been reading Dan Savage’s love and sex advice column for eleven years, since I was seventeen. At first...
View ArticleCommodification and Dehumanization
This recent article by Mark Regnerus of Slate has been making the rounds. Christopher Ryan is quoted at the end but stated on facebook that he disagrees with it and Violet Blue explained why it makes...
View ArticleIt’s The Heartbreak
I quite enjoyed Benjamin Dueholm’s article about Dan Savage’s sexual ethics. Amanda at Pandagon did a good job of explaining why his argument about the free market fell flat, but the thing that...
View ArticleAbout Philandering Phil…
Back in January, when I reviewed Sex at Dawn, one of my criticisms of the book was: [T]heir chapter about modern day marital infidelity only includes one case study of a man cheating on his wife. I...
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Orgasm, Inc.
Although I missed it in theaters, I was able to watch Orgasm, Inc. on DVD this weekend. It’s a documentary about the quest to find a drug that can increase sexual function in women, a “female Viagra.”...
View ArticleLetter Writing Sunday Oversight for Labiaplasty
In my review of Orgasm, Inc. I talked about the New View Campaign, and organization dedicated to challenging ideas about female sexuality promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. Recently, I also...
View ArticleDr. Vajayjay’s “Privatize Those Privates!” Not At All Like Vanessa Scott’s...
Never in a million years would I have imagined myself to be using the word “Vajayjay” in a the title of a blog post that had my name on it – it’s a euphemism I find incredibly unsavory, especially...
View ArticleSkyfall Fail: Why the “Step One – Be Attractive” Meme is Wrong
This post contains spoilers! Skyfall was mostly enjoyable, but there was a scene that left me feeling very uneasy. Bond meets Sévérine in a swank casino and tells her that “it takes a certain type of...
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Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser
Clarisse Thorn is a feminist writer and activist. Her book, Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser: Long Interviews with Hideous Men delves into pickup artist culture and examines it from a feminist...
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Anti-feminism is an appeal to force.
I’ve written before about how anti-feminism is an appeal to force. A common MRA argument goes like this: since men are physically stronger than women, everything women have men could take away at any...
View ArticleFAMILY VALUES FOX: Spitters are Quitters!
Over the weekend, the right wing social media circuit became very upset about not only Michael Sam’s drafting into the NFL. He then had the audacity to kiss his white – male – boyfriend. The horror....
View Article13 Ways To Keep Your Heterosexual Female Romantic Partner Happy
Inspired by Fox Sports loving, human relationship article written by contributer “Jennifer,” found here. Trust me, men, I assure you I exist and I’ve never had a man break up with me, although I have...
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13 Ways To Be A Happily Married Feminist
As is my unfortunate hobby, I was hate-browsing Reddit’s Red Pill Women forum and came across a discussion of Fox Sports “13 Ways to Keep Your Husband Happy.” I don’t know why Fox Sports is posting...
View ArticleThe Untenable Incel
Reading about the online “involuntarily celibate” or “Incel” community (also called “Love-Shy”) in the wake of the Ilsa Vista mass shooting, I find myself compelled by the incel narrative. Most people...
View ArticleAffirmative Consent Comes to New York
I’ve got to give credit where credit is due, and therefore I am very happy and proud to learn that New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has instructed the State University of New York (SUNY) to make...
View ArticleOut, Damned Sperm! Why Everyone Is Freaked Out About Fruit Flies.
This week the internet was aflame with the sheer idiocy that happens when you combine an ignorant misunderstanding of science with our culture of vicious misogyny. Generally respectable websites like...
View ArticleFuss Over “Fun Home”
Amanda Marcotte has a great piece up at Slate about the students who are refusing to read Fun Home because it violates their religion. I find myself thinking “Fun Home” is a bittersweet graphic novel...
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The Signal To Noise Ratio Of Blood Flow To One’s Genitals
There’s an idea floating around our cultural conversation that has too long gone unquestioned. This is one of those fallacies that is so much a part of our rhetoric that we hardly even recognize we...
View ArticleI have 5 sex questions for Ted Cruz
As David Corn writes in Mother Jones, In 2004, companies that owned Austin stores selling sex toys and a retail distributor of such products challenged a Texas law outlawing the sale and promotion of...
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Feminist Coffee Hour Episode 18: School Based Health Centers and Girls Inc
School Based Health Centers and Girls Inc Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Listen to episode in browser/Right click to download file We interviewed our friend Robin who works in a school based health...
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