Here we go again. The Orange County Board of Supervisors has suspended Planned Parenthood’s funding, terminating a contract that PP had to provide health and sex education for thousands of teens because they also provide abortions. Never mind the fact that this funding was for education programs and none of it was ever spent on […]

<full disclosure> I’m on the Advisory Committee for the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS) </full disclosure> CARAS is conducting an online survey to assess the educational needs of the BDSM community. The goals of the project are to identify what educational needs people have, determine what practices educators and organizers have, and […]

One of the things that I’ve noticed as a student of sexuality is how often our triggers get in the way of sex-positivity. We all have triggers, by which I mean that we all have emotional reactions that are disproportionate to the situation that we are currently in. It’s quite common for us to have […]

According to the latest report from the Guttmacher Institute, publicly funded family planning services prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies and 810,000 abortions each year. They are also “… highly cost-effective. More than nine in 10 women receiving them would be eligible for Medicaid-funded prenatal, delivery and postpartum care services if they became pregnant. Avoiding the […]

I read a lot of blogs about porn, sex, sex work and such and I’m often struck by how many people make statements about the motivations of everyone who watches porn, or is a sex work client, engages in BDSM, or simply enjoys a specific sexual desire, fantasy or practice. I think it’s amazing how […]

From MSNBC.com It seems that people who engage in mindfulness practices like meditation or yoga have better sex. According to a recent article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, sexually unsatisfied women who meditated and did yoga reported increases in arousal and desire. Although this is very preliminary research, it seems that these practices help […]

Regardless of what you personally believe about abortion, one very common experience for women and their partners when it comes to abortion is that there can be a lot of different emotional reactions. For the most part, the anti-choice folks tend to use any negative feelings as proof that abortion is bad while ignoring the […]