Consensual sexual practices should not be medicalized. In fact, the medicalization of consensual sexual practices and sexual identities is an affront to human rights and sexual liberation, one that echoes a disturbing history that includes the categorization of “homosexuality” as…
Happy Human Rights Day! Today marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , a document that identified the inalienable rights to which everyone is inherently entitled as a human being -- regardless of race, religion, sex, language,…
The federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia recently ruled that American’s have no constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM activity. The decision in Doe v. George Mason University, et. al, should be a clarion call for advocates of…
Today marks three years since my mother's death, and I want to remember her by sharing with you a piece I read at BedPost Confessions at Woodhull's Sexual Freedom Summit this past August in Alexandria, VA. It is adapted from a chapter…
Throughout history, female sexuality has rarely been taken seriously. It’s almost always compared to male sexuality—or worse, claimed to be in existence only to satisfy men’s sexual desire. We’ve come a long way from Freudian years. However, the creation of…
You know that I’m working on a book about sexuality, aging, illness, and dying, and that it’s a mother-daughter memoir, and so you know that issues about parents’ sexuality and the care that hospitals and nursing homes afford them are…
Looking for a court challenge to obscenity laws? Try Oregon, where the laws regarding exposing minors to obscenity are already so broad as to be hard to fit within the bounds of the constitution. How bad are the current laws?…
Yesterday Sophie Gilbert published an essay at TheAtlantic.com celebrating the 18th anniversary of the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She describes the ways in which Buffy represented a conventional teen hero (pretty, blond, athletic), and then all the many…
As I was working on my book and thinking about what I might blog about this week, the good fairies that live in the internet dropped two lovely bits of sexuality-related articles into my lap. The first is a Wall Street…
Campus sexual assault is a serious problem. It is not a new problem, not an emerging crisis, but rather a part of a serious ongoing problem of sexual assault and rape culture in the United States. Campus rape is the current moral…