Kinsey’s “new priorities”: a threat to humanity? (Answer: No.) (Sorry.)
Dan Savage is FREAKING OUT, you guys, because Sue Carter, the new head of the Kinsey Institute (where I was trained) told a USA Today reporter that she was going to be studying sex in the context of...
View Articletalking to girls about their own pleasure
I can’t wait to read Peggy Orenstein’s new book, Girls and Sex. I was looking forward to it before I listened to this interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, and now I’m champing at the bit. And. The interview...
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“they don’t want to hear that from us!”
I finished “Girls and Sex.” It was a lot harder to read than I expected – which is to say, it was really, really important. The book ends on the note of “what we need to do to change the mess.” More...
View Article“interesting if true, but so what?”– managing the long-term injuries to...
Cleaning the house today, I am listening to Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s The Joyous Body: Myths & Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype, and was moved to write about something she said that I think is...
View Articlewhat to teach your boys – prevent violence with one simple idea
In addition to the horrorshow that is the news of the United States these days, recently a friend of mine called in a panic. He was supporting a friend of his, who had just been sexually assaulted – a...
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How Not to Fall
Today is the book birthday of the novel I wrote because I was *sure* it must be possible to write the story of a young woman experiencing her sexual awakening with a more experienced, older, more...
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BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… *sigh*
You guys, I really enjoy Health Care Triage, a video series on health-relalted issues that often includes the phrase “To the research!” – which is basically my life motto – so of course it’s, like, my...
View Articlewomen’s personhood is on the ballot
Somehow or other, this presidential election has become a referendum on whether it’s acceptable that the president of the United States – sometimes called “the leader of the free world” – believes...
View Articlenext… join me!
Arritey. So my last post, right before the election, said that this election was a referendum on the question, “ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?” And the answer was, No. Women: Not quite people. Maybe almost people....
View Article“why do couples stop having sex?” is the wrong question
I just got back from multiple weeks of travel, talking to a variety of audiences, from medical providers to book club women to grown ups on a relationship retreat. And you know what everyone wants to...
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