CNN.com has a report today about Kirk Andrew Murphy, a man who committed suicide in 2003. His story is especially poignant because he was subjected to treatment when he was younger that was intended to force him into gender conformity. As part of it, he was given blue poker chips for rewarding masculine behavior and […]

I’ve been teaching workshops on male gender socialization for about 15 years or so. The foundation of my presentation is the Act Like a Man Box, which I learned about from Paul Kivel’s book, Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart. I like calling it the “Act Like a Man […]

As if being a sex worker isn’t hard enough, you can also be blamed if someone kills you. To catch you up if you’ve missed the story, a serial killer targeting sex workers and killed at least ten of them, burying their bodies  along Ocean Parkway in Long Island. This is hardly the first time […]

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, […]

The other night, I was watching a cop drama. The story centered on a murder case (as they often do) and the cops uncovered information that the victim had been blackmailed for hiring a sex worker. So they tracked the escort down, thinking that she’d been behind the scheme. But as it turned out, she […]

This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. A few weeks ago, Northwestern University professor J. Michael Bailey did something that ruffled a lot of feathers. He teaches a lecture class on the science of sexuality and in order to supplement the course, he organizes a series of optional presentations with guest speakers. These […]

A whole lot of news sites are trumpeting the announcement that delaying sex makes for better relationships. The source is a press release from Brigham Young University touting a study that claims that if couples who wait to have sex until they get married are better off: Relationship stability was rated 22 percent higher Relationship […]