sexuality and gender
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My friend, The Doctor, has a philosophy: If you’re feeling stressed out or sad or lonely, buy yourself flowers.
For The Doctor, who has a great condo and an even better sense of style, this works. When she buys [...]
Vulnerable
Monday, October 13th, 2008Last week, I had a bad fever and was really sick. As I lay in bed, I started to think about how vulnerable I was in both specific and general terms.
Being alone, I didn’t really have any way to get help unless I was willing to wake somebody up or call 911. [...]
Fleshmap: Studies of Desire
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008A few times in the last week, I’ve run across Fleshmap on the blogs I read.
Fleshmap is the website for a project that crosses art with a human sexuality science project… Unless you believe that all art exists to get the artist laid, in which case Fleshmap is just art.
The interesting-yet-duh-we-knew-that part of [...]
He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008I’d say all of my female friends consider themselves feminists. Some might qualify their inclusion in some way, but none would ever say “feminism is bad.” Thus, one way I benefit from them as friends is hearing about new books on the topic. One of these is He’s a Stud, She’s a [...]
Wisconsin Bigotry
Thursday, November 9th, 2006I have a friend, Brad, who lives in Wisconsin where they added an amendment to their constitution that bans any marriage or marriage-like contracts except between a man and woman.
If states, in a republic, are meant to be a ‘laboratory’ for government experiments, then I’m not sure what is being tested with votes like this. [...]