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August 2016

August 15, 2016
Consent violations are sadly common, but what should you do immediately after? Dr. Jen offers...
August 14, 2016
Disagreements are bad. Misagreements are worse. Read on to find out why!
August 13, 2016
You've heard the advice on airplanes to put on your own oxygen mask before helping...
August 12, 2016
There's some mushy personal stuff in here, but the take-home message is that positioning my...
August 11, 2016
Heard of razors blades in Halloween candy as a real thing, or Slender Man, and...
August 10, 2016
If we're going to talk about sexual consent and pleasure, we also need to talk...
August 09, 2016
The ability to be sexually active in capitalist society requires removal of certain barriers, which...
August 08, 2016
Colonizing someone's brain space, when they haven't consented to it, is a no-no when you're...
August 07, 2016
Sometimes, on The Internet, there's a fine line between accidentally clicking on sexual materials &...
August 06, 2016
Sharing information about my life as part of my educational mission does not mean I...
August 05, 2016
The principles for healthy relationships carry over between relationship styles, whether one's monogamous, polyamorous, or...
August 04, 2016
Legends about witches who extract dairy from their neighbors' cows are freaky, but also point...
August 04, 2016
Because legends are told as true stories, they give us insights into social anxieties and...
August 03, 2016
Objectification isn't new, but it keeps rearing its oh-so-prettily-framed head in advertising, the media, and...
August 02, 2016
"Normal" has many meanings, and until we stop conflating them with ideas about being a...
August 01, 2016
Celebrating the activist goals of Woodhull's Sexual Freedom Summit means more sex blogging happening here....

July 2016

July 31, 2016
The GOP platform is crummy for many reasons, but this one's personal, and I can't...
July 30, 2016
Teens are starting to fight back against victim-blaming messages in some parts of the world....
July 29, 2016
In a society that privileges vision above all the other senses, does the encroaching surveillance...
July 28, 2016
When you use language, you engage in folklore. Whether or not you've examined your folk...
July 27, 2016
Let's hear it for scientifically-informed, evidence-based political platforms, right? Right...
July 26, 2016
Never heard of porn cooties? Read on to find out more!
July 25, 2016
Feeling a complex tangle of emotions that could be labeled "guilty" does not mean someone...
July 24, 2016
Trauma fragments people, and as a result fragments their narratives. What are some strategies to...
July 23, 2016
Guess who hates small talk? Me (and probably every other introvert I know). So don't...
July 22, 2016
Here are the 10 best posts from a month of blog posts focusing on adult...
July 21, 2016
You can observe context using your senses, but a good folklore scholar also knows to...
July 20, 2016
If you can analyze statistics for your sports-enjoyment purposes, I wonder why you're not doing...
July 19, 2016
3.5% of an Indiana town's residents have HIV. That happened on Governor Pence's watch. Let's...
July 19, 2016
If you complain about the impact of fat bodies on our social system, you need...
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