This showed up in my RSS feed today. If you’re transgender or genderqueer, these lovely people would appreciate your input on trans-inclusive and respectful language. See below for details and pass it on! Greetings! Ten years ago, we conducted a short survey of our community’s reactions to the use of descriptive terminology in the professional […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. I was recently at the annual conference for the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and one of the speakers mentioned a fascinating bit of research on the effects of neuroscientific explanations. It seems that when an article explains something by […]

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 […]

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 […]

Each year, the National Sexuality Resource Center brings undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students in sexuality from around the country to San Francisco for the Summer Institute on Sexuality. It’s an amazing opportunity to visit an amazing city during one of the most beautiful times of the year and to learn plenty of fascinating stuff about […]

via the Village Voice As you might recall, Craigslist removed the adult services category from the site last September, under intense political pressure, which was founded on the argument that the classifieds were being used to promote child sexual trafficking and underage sex work. Deborah Richardson, the chief program officer of the Women’s Funding Network, […]