I just ran across a 2009 article in the Journal Of Sexual Medicine called Emotional Intelligence and Its Association with Orgasmic Frequency in Women and it’s pretty fascinating. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify, assess, and work with emotions. You could also think of it as the ability to control one’s emotions and influence […]

Psychology Today posted a piece by someone with a PhD in computational neuroscience and someone with a PhD in biologically inspired models of machine learning, which apparently qualifies them to make some remarkable statements about gender, sexuality, and relationships. They seem to prefer making some remarkably reductionist and essentialist claims about how sex works, along […]

One of the many challenges of being a parent or a teacher is helping kids and young people learn how to treat others with respect. It’s certainly not easy, especially when we’re surrounded by (among other things), disrespect masquerading as humor. One of the most effective ways to get away with saying hurtful things is […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. This morning, I fielded an inquiry from a reporter who’s writing a piece about sexually transmitted infections. Among her questions, she asked “What’s the big deal about having an STD?” After I explained that the current term is STI, since you can have an infection without […]

Are you a sex educator, sexologist or researcher? Do you want to connect with your colleagues? Building professional and personal relationships with colleagues and other folks in the field can be amazing. It’s a great way to find out about opportunities, get support for your projects, and expand your network. But if you don’t have […]

via mysexprofessor.com Queen’s University Researchers at Queen’s University are looking for female volunteers to participate in an online study examining women’s experiences with gynecological examinations. Women over 18 years of age with gynecological conditions, such as vulvodynia and endometriosis, as well as women without such conditions are invited to complete this secure online survey. Participation […]

If you’ve been paying attention to the evolution of the current debates around sex work, you’ve probably noticed that more and more people are conflating sex work and trafficking. Of course, there have always been plenty of people willing to slut shame, attack, and blame women who have sex for money in order to try […]