Questions Your Children Ask Me: What did you say about stinging?
Two (18%) of the ladies in my life have been allergic to latex condoms. The general population is supposed to be allergic to the proteins in natural rubber latex at a rate of 0.37%, at least according to this article, so 18% seems awfully high, especially when you exclude the women with whom I didn’t [...]
… so shut up and stop whining about your stupid foreskin
A recent reader of one of my blogs agreed with my position against male circumcision but objected to any comparison between the male foreskin and the clitoris, explaining that women without a clitoris couldn’t have an orgasm, where a man without a foreskin can. I myself thought this to be true six months ago, so [...]
Think Globally, Act Locally, the Circumcision Edition
A recent reader of one of my blogs about male circumcision, after stating clearly and sincerely that she herself was anti-male circumcision, expressed reservations about my “lumping male circumcision with FGM.” She requested that I describe female circumcision so my readers would be aware of how it’s practiced. (Being above all a consilient Southern man, [...]
Framing Circumcision for the (Happliy)* Circumcised
I am very much a non-fan of male circumcision. You can read my previous writings on the topic here, here, here and here. An unfortunate holdover from our sex-negative Victorian past, the genital modification discards the most sensitive part of a man’s sexual organ and changes the way that organ functions. This kind of thing [...]
Questions Your Children Ask Me: Why can’t all girls deep throat?
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. Every once in a while, I get [...]
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 [...]
And the Punchline Is Always the Same
Whatever quarter the sexual advice comes from, the punchline is always that the way people experience sexual pleasure is somehow wrong.
How little we know
My effort to find a succinct, consensus definition of an orgasm turned into a long day of research. I did find out that the cutting edge of sexual knowledge is at an unbelievably primitive state of advance.
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