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What's the Problem Germany Is Trying to Solve with its New Sex Designation? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
I've been reading some of the media and blogger coverage of the announcement that starting November 1st parents of some children in Germany will have the option of leaving sex assignment as "indetermi...
Crowdfunding for Sexuality Related Projects 21 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
While the practice of asking several people for money so that you can do something which, on your own, you'd never be able to afford, is not new, the branding of crowdfunding, and the financial succes...
Sex After a Heart Attack: What Women Want to Know, and What Women Want Their Doctors to Know 12 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
Our inability to talk about sex stymies us at every turn. Take heart attacks. Having an enjoyable sex life reduces ones risk of a heart attack. Once you've had a heart attack you're more likely to hav...
Opening Conversations at the Close of World Breastfeeding Week 6 Aug 2013 | 04:50 pm
In 1991 the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action was formed as a way of responding to a World Health Organization document, the Innocenti Declaration on the protection, promotion, and support of br...
New Research Offers Evolutionary Tales of Monogamy 1 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
If you didn't catch any of the headlines this week about new evolutionary theories explaining monogamy, here's a summary. Two papers were published trying to explain monogamy in mammals. They found d...
Summer Reading: Sex Work Memoirs 30 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
I thought I'd wait until I was all the way through the second issue of Prose & Lore before writing about it, but I feel a little like one of those research projects where they decide they have to stop...
Getting Out of the "Friend Zone" 26 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
How distressed do you need to be before you ask for help? Most of us, if we can take a moment to reflect, can find things in our lives that feel heavy and difficult and unfair compared to other peopl...
Crowd Funding Sex Education 24 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
I'm not sure if it has to do with my family background, but there's something about evoking "the crowd" that makes me uncomfortable. Crowd funding, crowd sourcing, the wisdom of the crowd. It may soun...
Fact Checking the Facts of Life 23 Jul 2013 | 06:14 pm
As I travel the country training sex educators I have lately found myself making a new pitch to them. Our job is not to teach the facts of life. I say this partly because I think the most important th...
Digging Deeper Into Sexuality, Disability, and Surrogacy 15 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Last week I suggested that while the New York Times piece on disability and sexual surrogacy in France was full of ableism and condescension worth challenging, it also introduced us to people and idea...
