Free Event: Prostate Play and Pleasure April 7, 6:30 pm

Free Event: Prostate Play and Pleasure April 7, 6:30 pm

Guys- are you looking for some new ways to experience pleasure? Want to try something new? I’m presenting a free, one-hour workshop tomorrow night at our Berkeley store all about the prostate. This workshop is open to anyone interested in exploring their own or their partner’s prostate, so come on down and find out how […]

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Heads Up! Silicone Lube is Flammable

I have to admit that it never would have occurred to me to check and see if lubricants are flammable. After all, when I think about the question of whether lubes burn, I’m thinking more about allergic reactions and yeast infections. Fortunately, Garnet Joyce ran across a sex guide that said that silicone lubricants are […]

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Call for Participants: U Michigan Survey About Sex With Non-Primary Partners

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Via Tristan Taormino Are you in a romantic relationship? Do you have other sexual partners? The University of Michigan is conducting an online survey and they want to ask you about your experiences. It’s a very quick survey, so take a few minutes and help some researchers out. Feel free to pass the link along […]

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Call for Participants: Documentary Film about Empowering Sex Workers

This showed up in my Facebook feed this morning and I’m passing it along.It sounds like a great project. Feel free to help get the word out. Seeking Interviewees for a Documentary Film about Empowering Sex Workers This short documentary seeks to celebrate and give voice to sex workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]

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Why Do We Call It “Using Porn”?

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On one of the sex education email lists that I follow, someone posted a question about “porn use.” And while I’ve seen this phrase used more times than I can count, it suddenly seemed to me that the term implies a bias that runs so deeply that it’s effectively invisible. I think it’s rather interesting […]

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Become My Fan on Facebook!

I finally got around to setting up a professional FB page: http://bit.ly/dwZuh7 If you’re a colleague or professional acquaintance, please become a fan so we can keep in touch. In a few weeks, I’m going to prune my personal page friends list to include only people who I know as friends or family in real […]

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The DSM Needs to be Based on Research

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I’ve been following the developments surrounding the upcoming changes to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). If you’re not familiar with it, the DSM is a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association and it effectively serves as the dictionary of mental health. If a doctor, therapist, psychiatrist or other mental health […]

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