The Shame of Purity Balls
- Apr, 14, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- sex & culture, sex positivity, shame
- 11 Comments.

@SexDayUSA tweeted a link to a 2007 article on Glamour.com about purity balls, which got me thinking. If you’re not familiar with them, a purity ball is an event for fathers to pledge to protect their daughters’ purity and for daughters to “to commit to moral purity and help them understand the beautiful and righteous […]
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Those Who Forget the Past…
- Apr, 14, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- pornography, sex positivity, sexual politics
- No Comments.
Whenever people push the edges how sex is portrayed, it causes an uproar. It really doesn’t matter whether the new frontier is a new technology (like the VHS porn revolution) or a sexual act (like Britney Spears and Madonna kissing). What matters is that crossing a boundary that was previously seemingly solid gets people wound […]
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Keeping Your Online Photos Private
- Apr, 13, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- resources, sexual practices
- 2 Comments.
Clipped from: www.comeasyouare.com by clp.ly I have to admit that I wouldn’t have thought of this if I hadn’t read about it, although if you’re a techie, this probably won’t surprise you. According to a blog post at Come As You Are, there’s a potential privacy issue that results from something called EXIF data being […]
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Spiderman Offers Sex Advice (back in 1976)
- Apr, 13, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- sex & culture, sex education, sexual health
- 1 Comment.

Via Erosblog.com Back in 1976, everybody’s favorite webslinger (well, everyone but J. Jonah Jameson, the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, the Kingpin and other baddies), teamed up with Planned Parenthood to offer some safer sex advice to the kiddies. While some of the info is out of date (like “A doctor can cure [VD] with a […]
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What Responsibility Does the Media Have Around Safer Sex?
- Apr, 09, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- pornography, sex education
- No Comments.
Clipped from: www.vancouversun.com by clp.ly The Vancouver Sun has an article today about the potential impact of the mainstream media on safer sex practices in which they quote an editorial by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania: The media is influencing their normative beliefs about sex: whether or not […]
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Defining Sex
- Apr, 08, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- relationships, sex & culture, sex research, sexual practices
- 5 Comments.

There’s yet another report showing that lots of people don’t consider oral sex to be sex. According to Sex Redefined: The Reclassification of Oral-Genital Contact, 98% of respondents said that penis/vagina intercourse counted as sex and 78% said that penis/anus intercourse counted. But only 20% said that oral-genital contact was sex. And predictably enough, some […]
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Some More Info About Flammable Silicone Lubricants
- Apr, 07, 2010
- Charlie Glickman
- resources, sex toys, sexual health
- 2 Comments.

If you saw my post the other day about how silicone lubricants can be flammable, you’ll be glad to know that we’re always looking out for you and getting the information you need to play safe. The buyer at Good Vibrations contacted the manufacturers of our silicone lubricants and asked them about this issue and […]
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