Aggression: Are All Men Potential Rapists?
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about castration of men as a sexual fantasy or behavior. This sent me back to the UCLA library to take a look at the books that had originally taught me about male aggression and what causes it to turn anti-social. So in this blog and maybe another few [...]
Male Circumcision or Women’s Health, Not Both: The Case of Zambia
Feminism is, needless to say, not a monolith. I am happy to report that there are many feminists who are against male circumcision as an integral part of their stance against all genital cutting. See here, for instance. But there is a pretty strong strain of feminism which somehow feels that a single word said [...]
The Trouble with Technology: Africa, the Machine Gun and Clinical Trials
In my very first blog on the topic of circumcision, I talked about how weird it was that the US medical community was sponsoring mass circumcisions in Africa. A recent comment from a reader recently reminded me of the Africa angle and I thought it would be interesting to re-address it since my worst fears [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Questions Your Children Ask Me:Honesty, Please
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. A few times a year, I get [...]
Questions Your Children Ask Me:Is that why sex hurts?
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. This question got thrown to me out [...]
Pornography: Part IIExperimental Nonsense
In Pornography: Part I, I laid out my own relationship with sexually explicit material, so you’d know exactly where I’m coming from. Now I’ll go into some of my other thoughts. I laughed the first time I read the design of the most common experiment used to promote the idea that porn causes or contributes [...]
Sex Positive: An Epitaph?
“Safe sex came from activists, porn stars, sex workers and their community driven efforts.” This quote comes from the webpage of a documentary I just Netflixed, or put on my Netflix® queue (out of respect for their trademark), called Sex Positive, about Richard Berkowitz, a S/M-huslter turned AIDS-activist who was one of the inventors and [...]
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