Tag Archives: Sex
Are gender-reveal parties necessarily retrograde?
TweetSo, people are talking about gender reveal parties. Have you heard of these? They are almost exactly what they sound like: parties where the sex — not gender, despite the name — of a forthcoming baby is revealed, often to the expecting mother or couple at the same time it is made known to guests. [...]
What Katie Roiphe gets wrong about “Fifty Shades of Grey” and fantasies of sexual submission
TweetI couldn’t help it, you guys! I just had to respond to Katie “My Sex Life is More Exciting Than Everyone Else’s” Roiphe’s latest in Newsweek on Fifty Shades of Grey and how professional women these days want to be dominated in the bedroom. I’ve been meaning to write about Fifty Shades of Grey anyway, [...]
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Awesome upcoming event: Momentum
TweetIn about two weeks, I’m heading down to Washington, DC to participate in a conference that I’m so freaking excited about. It’s Momentum: Making waves in sexuality, feminism and relationships. It’s two days of panels and presentations about a hundred different aspects and iterations of sexuality, with a list of amazing presenters as long as [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-In: Let’s Talk About Birth Control For REAL Edition
Tweet There’s been a lot of talk about birth control lately. But much of the conversation has been centered around politics and policies, and as a result, the realities of birth control usage have fallen by the wayside a bit. Maybe that’s why people like Rush Limbaugh make statements which seem to suggest that their [...]
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South Carolina won’t give parents info on life-saving, cancer-preventing HPV vaccine