Clarisse Thorn wrote an article last week asking Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their Sexual Needs?, in which she argues that the toxic construction of male sexuality has resulted in it being pathologized. She uses the word "creep" as sort of the male equivalent of the way "slut" is used with women - a means to police and control their ( Read more... )

Those of you who heard me talk about the first assignment I had for the new job will know why I noticed this article about how the use of date rape drugs is less common than most thinkThere are a number of caveats there, including the difficulty in testing for GHB and Rohypnol, and I suspect it is one of those cases where the moment something is ( Read more... )

It's a nice term in this article on the whole men and womens brains are wired completely differently.

(This also gives me an excuse to point to Echidne's Statistics Primer.)

The general point is summarized thusly,

There may be slight variations in the brains of women and men, added Fine, a researcher at Melbourne University, but the wiring is ( Read more... )

Mostly from the often-interesting Yes Means Yes blog, a couple of discussions about consent.

Firstly, the nature of "nebulous consent". To quote Thomas using a kink example:

But let’s take the “asking for it” bit to its logical conclusion. Let’s say I meet a top in at a play party and we talk about what she wants to do, and then she ties my ( Read more... )

I have to go and see if I can finally get TekSavvy to get my internet to work, so I don't have time to discuss this at length, but Pandagon has launched a rather interesting debate on censorship. (The linked post actually spins off the debate in the comments of this post about the John Stagliano trialAmanda comes down firmly on the "do not censor" ( Read more... )

There's an old joke that goes something like this ( Read more... )

We don't get a marathon on our Patriots Day ( Read more... )

This got linked to a while ago, but I forgot to post about it.

Odd sex lawsAs always with such lists, I suspect many are urban legends and not really on the books. Nonetheless, I tend to wish they are true because this desire to legislate desire always amuses and horrifies me ( Read more... )

Surprising to probably no one reading this,
people can't agree on a definition of sex. Single Americans are also shockingly ignorant about contraception. <-- PDF

Some of the stats on contraception knowledge shown here are depressing ( Read more... )

I doubt I'll be writing anything deep through New Year's.

Some views - both good and bad - on sex in the US-Canada culture.

Horrifying sex toys. I am not always a fan of Something Awful, but there are some good ones in here.

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Greta Christina decides to take off her cranky pants and put on her optimist ( Read more... )