Female condoms sounded weird and complicated and I figured we already had condoms so this discussion was really unnecessary…and then I changed my mind. When I was a kid, the local pop radio station had a nightly phone in sex chat show. Most nights, I would secretly listen as folks called in with their questions […]
Male birth control is a long overdue part of gender equality. Last summer, high school junior William Trinh landed a coveted internship funded by the National Institutes of Health. He showed up at the University of Washington expecting to spend a couple of months peering into a microscope, but that wasn’t the kind of help […]
If you try to pressure a sexual partner into not using protection, you’re acting like a disrespectful, coercive, pouty little shit. You know that thing when you’re about to have sex with someone and you’re feeling all warm and fuzzy and fun things are happening and you anticipate more fun things are coming and you’re […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. These are a few bits of hard-won wisdom I wouldn’t mind shouting out to my past self. “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K…” Points if you recognize that line from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which gave the world many things including a young Keanu Reeves. […]
