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7.12.10

Selling the Big O

Should drug makers be defining female sexual pleasure?

Liz Canner's documentary ORGASM INC. takes on female desire, pharmaceutical marketing, and the medicalization of women's sexuality. Laura Stepp talks to Canner and others about what--or who--is really behind the current "epidemic" of female sexual dysfunction. [12 min 13 sec]

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June 14th 2010

Dear Landon: Decorum Is Not the Same as Honor

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted on The Huffington Post.

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Do not be fooled by student codes of conduct. They're more about decorum than desire, or cheating on tests rather than cheating on your girlfriend.

Which means the age-old assumption, "Boys will be boys" is alive and well, and girls are still, as Maureen Dowd put it, prey.

June 7th 2010

Who's Afraid of Commitment?

- Ms. Veralyn

In her latest vlog, Ms. Veralyn tackled one of the oldest clichés in the book - are men really afraid of commitment?

To do so, she spoke to:
Josh and Jess, Couple together since High School
Chia, Relationship Host on The Morning Influence
DGreat, Relationship Blogger

Check out the video and tell us who you think is afraid of commitment.

May 12th 2010

Contraception for Dudes: Blast to the Testes!

- Liz Sabatiuk

Wow. Could it be that scientists are finally on the brink of finding a safe, low-cost, long-acting, reversible method of birth control...for men?

April 27th 2010

Does Taking Sex Seriously Make You a Scold?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Since when does trying to convince your lab partner not to hook up with a new person every Saturday night make you a scold?

In my book, that makes you a friend. Apparently that’s not the case for Slate associate editor Jessica Grose.

Grose wrote a column reacting to a large national survey of college students in which the majority of women and men said they lose respect for classmates who hook up “a lot.” Because of this, Grose characterized these respondents as being members of what she called, “Generation Scold.”

April 21st 2010

A Page from the Male Dating Playbook: The Napkin Metaphor

- Kaarin Moore

Originally, I was writing an article about what men wear on first dates. The plan was to interview a bunch of guys to see if they purchased new clothes prior to a night out on the town. But I ended up getting much more information than I bargained for. I hit gold, my friends. What follows is a glimpse into the male mind when it comes to relationships. In fact, I would go as far as to say I got a sneak peek into the Male Dating Playbook. It started, like most good stories, with a guy and a girl at a bar, talking about sex.

The Napkin Metaphor

March 30th 2010

Should Guys Be Making Love Instead of Just Performing?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Thanks to Jessica Coen at Jezebel for pulling together a bunch of sex surveys published over the last year.

My eyes landed on this one: “Truth about Sex: 60% of Young Men Lie About It.” As Jessica put it, “Duh.”

However, there were a couple of nuggets in that particular survey, which was administered online by TRU, a respected youth market research company.* One was this: Of the 1,200 guys ages 15-22 who were interviewed, 78% said there was “way too much pressure” from society to have sex.

March 3rd 2010

Oxytocin: The Pseudoscience of the Hook-Up Hormone

- Lena Chen

As a now-monogamous former sex blogger, I'm living proof that hooking up doesn't make you crazy or unable to commit. But if mainstream media reports of the past few years are to be believed, I'm the exception, not the rule.

February 24th 2010

Circle Circle, Dot Dot – Cooties, Gender, and Building Better Relationships

- Brad Perry

Think back to kindergarten. How did girls and boys relate? My own experience is that, overall, us boys got along pretty well with the girls in our classes. The only memorable rift between girls and boys at that age was the dreaded, omnipresent threat of “cooties” - a mythical condition transmitted across genders via touch, but easily cured by tracing two circles and two dots on the forearm of the infected individual (a “cootie-shot” for those of you not familiar with this epidemic). Cooties were basically a way to upgrade games of tag with a richer, zanier context of infectious disease. Cooties were also understood by both boys and girls to be a fantasy – something we created to make recess a bit more interesting.