Session Four / Sex, Lies and Videotape

Sex and sexuality are often central to discussions and debates about gender roles and relations. Session 4 looks at conversations about casual sex, pornography, and a hypersexualized culture and asks how these impact our sex lives and sexual expectations for men and women.

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  • Same Difference: How Gender Myths are Hurting our Families, Our Relationships, Our Jobs -
    Same Difference: How Gender Myths are Hurting our Families, Our Relationships, Our Jobs (PDF)
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  • Is There a Sex Crisis on College Campuses? - Slate.com, February 2007
    Is There a Sex Crisis on College Campuses? (PDF)
  • The Shame Cycle: The New Backlash Against Casual Sex - Slate.com, March 2010
    The Shame Cycle: The New Backlash Against Casual Sex (PDF)
  • The Porn Myth - New York, October 2003
    The Porn Myth (PDF)
  • The Truth About the Porn Industry - The Guardian, July 2010
    The Truth About the Porn Industry (PDF)
  • Pornography and the End of Masculinity - AlterNet, September, 2007
    Pornography and the End of Masculinity (PDF)
    This article includes graphic sexual descriptions
  • Pornography 101: Why College Kids Need Porn Literacy Training - AlterNet, September 2010
    Pornography 101: Why College Kids Need Porn Literacy Training (PDF)
  • Hard Core: The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women - The Atlantic, January/February 2011
    Hard Core: The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women (PDF)
  • The Anti-Male, Anti-Sex Falsehoods That Rule Discussions about Porn and Sexuality - AlterNet, January 2011
    The Anti-Male, Anti-Sex Falsehoods That Rule Discussions about Porn and Sexuality (PDF)

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  • He's Just Not That Into You Trailer - December 2008
  • Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn (Adult content) - TEDTalks Director's Channel, December 2009
    This clip has explicit language
  • The View Hot Topics - Ashley Madison, Cheating and Infidelity Web site - AshleyMadison, April 2009
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians -- Girls Gone Wild - dailymotion.com, October 2010