This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. As Women Grow Older, Daughter Becomes The Favorite by Amina Khan of the Los Angeles Times says that a study of cellphone calls and text messages finds that as women age, their focus shifts from […]
Much of the media coverage of the recent Secret Service scandal in Colombia has focused on the “boys will be boys” logic and the potential danger to our national security, but Corey Barr says too little attention has been given to what these events say about power relations in military cultures. I have to admit, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Secret Service Scandal: GOP Gets Ahead of the Facts by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says we don’t know what happened in Colombia, but GOP congressmen are already talking about unlikely sexual blackmail. 2. Spanking Goes […]
Eric Sentell argues that the real reason for the Secret Service’s use of prostitutes in Colombia isn’t necessarily about a man’s need for sex, but that men crave validation from their peers, and never want to be the “wet blanket” in the group. The recent scandal of U.S. Secret Service and military personnel carousing in […]
Ken Miller’s not afraid to admit it: He gives a little extra in the bedroom when he needs a little extra cash from his breadwinner wife. The handling of our family finances has changed a great deal over the past 20 years, as I went from primary breadwinner in a two-income marriage to househusband caring […]
Are men the more dominant sex? Are they more prone to violence? Clarisse Thorn discusses this in the wake of the hugely successful novel 50 Shades of Grey, which explores S&M erotica and features a strongly dominant lead male character. Much is being made of the highly successful S&M erotica novel 50 Shades of Grey. People […]
The fact that more women than ever before are “consuming” porn doesn’t prove that the industry has become a better place for its female performers, says Hugo Schwyzer. He spoke to several porn performers about the industry today. Call it the porn paradox. At the same time that the mainstream media is finally catching on […]
People experience jealousy and competitive urges in many different ways, but when it becomes a turn-on, things can get a bit complicated. Clarisse Thorn breaks it down. Last year, I wrote a piece called “In Praise of Monogamy.“ I currently practice polyamory in my relationships, but I spent years dating monogamously. I’ve noticed that when people […]
As a follow-up to her recent piece about her son’s “panda three-way,” Lynn Beisner continues the conversation about first sexual experiences. Last week I wrote about how my son lost his virginity: in a panda three-way. (An established couple with a sexually inexperienced guy.) One of my goals in writing about it was to open […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Must Women ‘Civilize’ Men? by Joan Walsh of Salon.com says that at the root of the conservative war on contraception is a deep-seated anxiety about the traditional family. 2. Life Without Sex: The Third Phase […]
This was originally posted at CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. In all of the discussion and debate about Rush Limbaugh’s recent attack on and pseudo-apology to Sandra Fluke, there’s a piece that I want to call out: If you don’t respect sluts, you don’t respect women. There have been other articles, like Yasmin Nair’s In […]
Clarisse Thorn sees nothing wrong with casual sex—she’s just not that into it. But she asks: What is it about the people who enjoy it so much? I can be a pretty brazen lady. Sometimes it surprises me how much this will give people the incorrect impression about my sexual habits. I actually dated one […]
