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While I was in San Francisco, I taught a SexAbility workshop on the intersection between sexuality and disability. While there, I got interviewed a bit on it, and the result is this really awesome article about me on CarnalNation.com. Click here [...]
I had this forwarded to me, and I think that it is absolutely wonderful that someone is doing this kind of research. Instead of just looking at numbers, or making assumptions, they are actually looking for the voices of the trans/genderqueer/gender variant communities, and their parents, and their partners. Please, if you can, and fall [...]
I just heard from Audacia Ray about a project she’s doing with two other researchers about finding out what type of information is available when you search the internet in public libraries. I think this is a really important bit of research, as many people’s only internet access comes from public libraries. Everyone should be [...]
I don’t know what is is about this week, but lots of people have been talking about some of the ‘nilla hate that goes on in the kink community. First, there was Lee Harrington to who mentioned on twitter that vanilla is a valid and delicious flavor (both in food and sex). Then Mollena got [...]
Last week, Fox News 10 ran a story on Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder as part of a story on a drug trial in Phoenix that is looking to find a cure for lower sexual arousal in women. They called Fascinations for some info, and were kind enough to let me speak as the Resident Sex [...]
Sex workers are people. They are your friends, your exes, your lovers, your sisters, your brothers, your parents.
They are escorts and prostitutes and fetish models and pro dommes and pro subs and pro switches and porn stars and erotic massage providers and nude models and strippers and dancers and sex surrogates and more.
They, just like everyone else, [...]
The American Psychiatric Association just released a list of proposed changes for sexual and gender identity disorders for the DSM-5, and are looking for feedback. I’m still not sure how I feel about things, but I think it’s important that everyone concerned with sexuality (gender, BDSM, trans, hyper sexual arousal, pain disorders, hypo active sexual [...]
I’m not going to lie. I’m not usually much of a Sarah Silverman fan. In fact, I don’t like most “main stream” comedians. Give me good ol’ British wit (Monty Python, Are You Being Served, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Eddie Izzard) any day.
However, Sarah Silverman said something that I think is important to talk about. [...]
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