Fun with Art: Fetch the Saw
When I go to art museums, I take pictures of art objects that represent or point to funny sexual hangups and then I talk about those hangups here. I recently visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver; my second visit to what is one of my favorite museums. The [...]
Stop Masturbating in Public:Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints
As news items provide the occasion, I plan to use this space to gently point a finger at the unintentionally sexual acting out of sexually incompetent people. Not to make fun, primarily, but to underscore the deep, moral importance of being a sexually competent human being if you also plan on being a good human [...]
Questions Your Children Ask Me:If I use a vibrator, am I still a virgin?
I volunteer at Los Angeles-area public schools teaching sex ed to 9th graders. At the end of every class, I hand out index cards to the kids and they write down questions they don’t want to ask out loud. These are your kid’s questions. These are my answers. The answer to this question about whether [...]
Triangle Trade in Foreskins, Part 3
So many great comments were made on both sides of the circumcision issue that I started doing research into the literature and added a part 3. I view studies that highlight the advantages of male circumcision with the same suspicion that I, and most people, would view a study implying an advantage to female circumcision. [...]
Perfectly Useless
The female orgasm–the most fretted over, sweated over part of sexuality for at least the last century–seems not to have evolved through adaptive selection for a unique purpose all its own. After forty years of research, the best explanation for why women have orgasms (or at least have the potential to have them) is simply [...]
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