Did you know that May is National Masturbation Month? Knowing even the limited amount I do about biology, it would seem to me that every month is National Masturbation Month… The great John Corvino has an article up at HuffPo about it. May is National Masturbation Month. I am not making this up. National Masturbation [...]
A matter of pride
December 10, 2012 By 24 Comments
Steven here… A childhood friend of mine posted this on Facebook after her visit to the doctor: “Syphilis-NEGATIVE, HIV-1&2-NEGATIVE, Chlamydia-NEGATIVE, HPV- Negative, Herpes-NEGATIVE, GC (Gonorrhea)-NEGATIVE, Trichomonias- NEGATIVE, ALL DRUG TEST NEGATIVE… At 32 I have Never had a STD and IM proud of it. These type of papers are like a TREASURE, DO YOU HAVE [...]
Guest post: Sexual Shame in our Politics
October 23, 2012 By 7 Comments
The following is a guest post by Dr. Darrel Ray, founder of Recovering From Religion, The Secular Therapist Project, and author of The God Virus and Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. Sexual Shame in our Politics Many people think politicians like Newt Gingrich and David Vitter, should be ashamed of themselves, but that [...]
Purity is for drinking water.
September 28, 2012 By 11 Comments
DrB- Even positive sex education will say that abstinence is some kind of virtue. As if “purity” was for people. As if sex had anything to do with a person’s value. Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they’re waiting [...]
Fifty Shades of Dumb (Blogathon 8/49)
June 11, 2012 By 8 Comments
***Spoiler alert*** I talk about characters and some of the plot from the first book in the Fifty Shades of Grey series. This post is also a little sexually explicit, so deal with that however you’d like to. This week I broke down and read Fifty Shades of Grey. If you haven’t heard of this, [...]
How do you tell them you're poly?
June 9, 2012 By 3 Comments
Christina here… Question! Alex says: June 9, 2012 at 7:04 pm (Edit) Since you offered to answer questions… what do you think is the best way to let people you’re interested in dating know that you’re poly? I’m new to the poly thing and I’m struggling a bit to decide how best to do this. Answer! Depends. [...]
Tips on Polyamory
June 9, 2012 By 7 Comments
Christina here… I’m about halfway through my blogathon! I feel like I’m talking to myself though.. So I’m going to talk to someone for real. Also, donate to the SSA: A few days ago, a reader asked if she could ask me some questions about open relationships. I said yes, and [...]
Flirting, sex, and lines: removing skeeze from the movement
May 22, 2012 By
The contents of this post represent the opinions of JT Eberhard, NOT the Secular Student Alliance There’s a problem in the atheist movement: guys can be skeezy. This alienates women, makes the women we haven’t alienated uncomfortable, and weakens us as a movement. There are famous atheist dudes who are notorious for this and plenty [...]
"hooking kids on Sex II"
March 19, 2012 By 16 Comments
Christina here… This is maybe the most ridiculous video I’ve ever watched. Ugh. I can’t find hooking Kids on Sex 1! Darn. Here’s what I think though. 1. “These perverts are allowed unfettered access to our children while raking in government cash to sell them unrestrained sex.”
Genital-based insults and transgendered people
March 2, 2012 By 19 Comments
Christina here… So last week I posted a The Daily Twitter in which a person with whom I engaged in conversation with attempted to “insult” me by asking if I was born a man. In another The Daily Twitter, I was called a hermaphrodite, presumably because of my lack of belief in god. Fellow blogger Natalie [...]
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