Category Archives: Sex

Tonight, I’ve Been Thinking About Sex

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I am trying to remember the first time I understood, really understood, that sex was nothing but touch, that I wanted the sex I had to be about finding ways to touch people that would leave them feeling fully and … Continue reading →

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Unclear on the Contraception

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jen Sorensen

This notion that birth control pills are now “free,” as Romney claimed in his conference call to donors, needs to end. They are now simply covered by health insurance, which many of us pay for via hefty monthly premiums. We’re actually getting someth… Continue reading →

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S&M Aftercare… Or Brainwashing?

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Clarisse Thorn

[Crossposted from Clarisse Thorn's blog.] Yes, it’s another article about abuse and S&M, but I’m going to cover a lot more than that. I’ll talk about intimacy and bodily reactions and how these things build a relationship — whether consensual … Continue reading →

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Writing about Sex Roles: A Book by Clarisse Thorn and an Essay by Me

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Mandolin

For a couple of years now, Clarisse Thorn has been interviewing and hanging out with the community of pick-up artists, a community she finds fascinating and… well, from a feminist perspective, sort of problematic, too. There’s an unbelievably compelling thing … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: The “Cunt Poem” Challenge

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Trigger warning for a brief mention of sexual violence. I have not posted a Fragments of Evolving Manhood piece on a long while, mostly because my attention has been focused elsewhere, but I have been working these past couple of … Continue reading →

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Abortion, Parenting, and the Government

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Grace Annam

Last year I read a piece written by a woman who worked in a court system in her state. It was an eye-opener for me, because it laid out in detail how apparently small single requirements could in fact be … Continue reading →

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A Unified Theory of Orgasm

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Clarisse Thorn

This is a guest post by Clarisse Thorn. It was originally published at the girl-power site Off Our Chests. * * * I CAN’T COME. and it’s poisoned every romance I’ve ever had. masturbating doesn’t work. I don’t know why. … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry on Abstinence-Based Sex Education

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

In Perry’s defense, there is absolutely no good reason to support abstinence-based sex education, so his inability to come up with one is unsurprising. That said, it says something that he can’t even come up with one of the standard … Continue reading →

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“Why I Am A Feminist Man” Published by The Scavenger

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have been away from any really substantive blogging, or work on my other writing projects, since my grandmother died because I’ve been busy catching up on everything that accumulated on my desk, work-related and otherwise, while I was dealing … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Cartoon: “Conservative Counseling”

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jen Sorensen

Continuing with a long series of obnoxious happenings in matters repro, South Dakota has passed a law that pretty much forces women to seek “advice” from those faith-based  “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” that I blogged about a few weeks ago. These centers are, as you might expect, notoriously unscientific. Poor South Dakotans. This is the second [...] Continue reading →

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