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Live-Blogging ‘Feminism For Real’: No, I Would Follow the Porn Star’s Advice

Being part twelve of the Live-Blogging Feminism For Real series. For the rest of the series, click on the series tag. For a full explanation of the series, see part one. This was the first contribution...

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Being a Bitch about Birth Control

In light of last week’s birth control pill recall, I’ve been talking with a lot of women about the whole question of what they and their partners would do in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Most...

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What’s Missing From Sex Education?

The ever-thoughtful and articulate Clarisse Thorn recently shared a piece over at Feministe about what lessons she thinks are missing from liberal, sex-positive sex education. She writes: Yes, I’ve...

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Booknotes: Premarital Sex in America

Cross-posted at the feminist librarian. Thought y’all might be interested. It’s not that I had terribly high expectations for a book titled Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate,...

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Quick Hit: Men in Porn and “What Women Want”?

Amanda Hess over at Good Magazine has a really fascinating profile of porn star James Deen, who apparently has a raging, youthful, female fandom on the internet. In “What Women Want: Porn and the...

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Quick Hit: Jessica Valenti’s “Purity Myth” Now a Documentary!

Via @courtwrites: The Purity Myth Trailer from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo. I read and reviewed Jessica Valenti’s Purity Myth when it first came out back in 2009 and in my opinion it’s the best...

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Quick Hit: Jill Lapore on Margaret Sanger [NPR]

For those of you who haven’t yet read Jill Lapore’s New Yorker essay on Margaret Sanger and the politicization of birth control and abortion (or want more), you can hear her interviewed by Terry Gross...

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Booknotes: Deviations

find table of contents here For the past couple of months I’ve been making my way through Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (Duke University Press, 2011), an anthology of writings by anthropologist and...

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A Real Thing in the World: “Sexual Flavors”

Image Description: Image is a full-page magazine ad depicting a white, hetero couple in underwear only making out on a bed. Across the top third of the ad is the text “He’ll Scream Your Name. He’ll...

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Are Intelligent Questions About Sex Really That Difficult to Formulate?

multiple choice test by forwardstl (Flickr.com) My friend Minerva recently forwarded me a paper from the Archives of Sexual Behavior that reported on the findings of a study that attempted to explore...

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