About Charlie Glickman
I'm a writer, blogger, teacher, workshop facilitator, and sex & relationship coach. I teach workshops, seminars, and university courses on sexuality topics, including sex-positivity, sex & shame, communities of erotic affiliation, many different sexual practices, gender & masculinity, and sexual politics. Contact me for more information, to make a coaching appointment, or to arrange a speaking engagement.Call for Submissions: Erotic Stories About Sex After 50
- Sep, 26, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- sex & culture
- 3 Comments.
This turned up in my RSS feed today and it sounds like an amazing project. See below and pass it on! Joan PriceĀ is seeking erotic stories and memoir essays of high literary quality from writers over age 50, featuring steamy characters also over age 50, for a senior erotica anthology to be published Spring 2013 […]
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Robert Jensen Doesn’t Understand Sex-Positivity
- Sep, 22, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- sex positivity, sexual politics, shame
- 45 Comments.

There’s a new post up on the Good Men Project, Is Sex Positive Ever Negative?, which highlights many of the ways in which sex-positivity is seriously misunderstood. The writer, Lili Bee, starts with an account of a conversation she had with a friend and the roadblock they hit when he suggested that she do some […]
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Learning to Live With Uncertainty
- Sep, 19, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- relationships, sexual practices
- 1 Comment.

One of the biggest challenges I faced as I grew into adulthood was learning how to deal with the fact that the word is full of uncertainty. I remember being a kid and being obsessed with the rules of games, with making things fair, with carving everything into this and not-this. From what I know […]
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When Sex Bloggers Get Slut Shamed
- Sep, 13, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- gender, sexual politics
- 4 Comments.
It probably shouldn’t surprise to anyone that, in general, women in the blogosphere get a lot more harassment than men. After all, just walking down the street, women get a lot more harassment than men. While I’ve been aware of this for a long time, it returned to the foreground of my thinking when John […]
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I Want Marriage to Mean Something, Too
- Sep, 09, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- relationships, sex & culture
- 3 Comments.

Last week, some Republican Florida politicians pushed back against one of their number who wants to repeal some laws against unmarried (heterosexual) couples that live together but aren’t married. This law has been on the books since the late 1800’s but isn’t enforced too often. And while some politicians are hesitant to talk about it, […]
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An Open Letter to Naomi Wolf: Why Rape is Different
- Sep, 07, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- sexual politics
- 9 Comments.
Ms Wolf- I recently ran across your article, Why is Rape Different?, in which you argue that allowing rape survivors to remain anonymous when we don’t do the same for any other crime victim infantilizes women and makes rape prosecutions more difficult. Although you wrote this some months ago, it’s still bouncing around on twitter, […]
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Fetlife Just Doesn’t Get It When It Come to Joking About Sex Workers
- Aug, 29, 2011
- Charlie Glickman
- sex work, sexual communities, social oppressions
- 13 Comments.
Last week, Fetlife (the kinky social networking site) went offline, as can happen. And the folks running the site decided it would be funny to tweet about it: http://twitter.com/#!/FetLife/status/105135991261642752 Predictably enough, a mini twitter-storm ensued, as various folks called Fetlife out for it. And a few days later, a post by Rayne on Eden Cafe […]
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