My rss feed pointed me to an unsurprising article about a talk that Phyllis Schlafly gave as part of a new course offered at The Citadel, Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America. According to her: “Feminists are having a hard time being elected because they essentially are unlikable,” she said. Schlafly talked to a group of […]

It seems like every time I turn around, someone is standing under the banner of sex-positivity and proclaiming “Sex is awesome! Everyone should totally be doing it!” I certainly understand why folks fall into that trap- sex is so shamed in our society that it’s easy for people to jump to the conclusion that the […]

I wrote this for the Momentum Conference anthology, to accompany my presentation at the event. What does “queer” mean? One of the things about the word queer that fascinates me is how many meanings it has. It can be used as an adjective, a pejorative, a noun, an identity, a sexual orientation, and as a […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. This last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at MOMENTUM: Making Waves in Sexuality, Feminism, and Relationships. It was easily the best sexuality conference I’ve ever been to and I’m still smiling from it. There were a lot of reasons I enjoyed it so much, […]

I suppose I should start by coming out of the closet as an atheist. More specifically, as a jewish-pagan-atheist, as I once told a very confused Mormon missionary who accosted me on a sidewalk. I grew up non-practicing Jewish in the suburbs of New Jersey. I did have a bar mitzvah, mostly because a lot […]

One of my favorite things to teach people about is prostate play. This often-overlooked erogenous zone doesn’t get enough attention and I want to get the word out about it! As part of that, my friend, Aislinn Emirzian, and I have been teaching workshops and classes on how to do it (and we have one […]

Though it’s 9 months old, I just got pointed to the article The Lust Frontier: Why Can’t We Make Open Relationships Work?  by Meghan Murphy. I have to admit that I was a bit surprised by the tone of the article, which is all about how many people try open relationships and have it not […]