You may have seen the post from a couple of weeks ago, announcing that Heather Corinna, the founder of Scarleteen.com, was looking for people to participate in a short, anonymous online survey about their experiences with casual sex. She’s just announced an even shorter follow up survey, which will help fill in some of the […]

via Dr. Petra Researchers in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, Canada are looking for folks to participate in an online survey exploring male body image and sexuality. From the survey page: The purpose of this study is to better understand how men evaluate certain features of their genitals, and the factors that influence […]

I get a lot of calls and emails from people who want to become sex educators and I’m always really happy to help people figure out where to get the training they need. But it can be tricky because there are many paths that people take to become sex educators and many different ways of […]

This post appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. The fabulous Greta Christina wrote an article the other day, in which she speculated on the reasons why there aren’t more men writing about sex. It’s a great piece and I highly recommend it. Actually, I recommend pretty much anything Greta writes. My observations pretty much match […]

Clipped from: Carnal Nation by clp.ly I have to admit that this is the sort of thing that seems so obvious to me that I’m surprised that someone had to do research. But then, it’s good to have empirical validation, especially since that means that it can be used in other research. It turns out […]

This post first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. I recently received a press release about STD Test Express, an online service designed to make getting tested for sexually transmitted infections easier. At first, I thought it was a great idea. After thinking about it, I still think it’s a good idea but not perfect. […]

I recently read an amazing report by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy called The Fog Zone: How Misperceptions, Magical Thinking, and Ambivalence Put Young Adults at Risk for Unplanned Pregnancy (PDF). It’s a thorough and impressive bit of research about the gap between what young adults know about contraception and their […]