News - Powered by Yahoo NewsAllison Hope: A Penis and a Dress: Why the Gender Binary Needs to Go Awa
Imagine a world where someone with a penis can wear dresses every day if this person desired. Gender-neutral bathrooms and department stores and professional sports become the rule rather than the exception to it. Children can play with whatever toys they prefer.
Tue, 22 May 2012 17:40:38 -0700 -
Massage therapists rubbed wrong by sex tal
A Jennifer Love Hewitt show and the Travolta allegations have masseuses tired of being confused for sex workers
Tue, 22 May 2012 08:32:12 -0700 -
?Why won?t you answer me?
Kids' questions may be annoying -- but they're more crucial to learning than we've ever thought. An expert explains
Sun, 20 May 2012 11:02:22 -0700 -
A night at the vibrator museu
Early vibrators were hand-cranked, two-person jobs -- and prescribed by doctors. How far we've come since then
Sat, 19 May 2012 17:02:12 -0700 -
The New Pangenderism
This week's ruling by the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) to make "transgender" a protected status under the 1964 Civil Rights Act is another reminder of the confusions that characterize our community's understanding of sex and gender.
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:47:14 -0700 -
The prudes are winnin
The explosion of government-funded abstinence-only education, extreme assaults on reproductive rights, crackdowns on "indecency" and "obscenity": This is but a small sampling of what spurred sex therapist Marty Klein to publish "America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty" in 2006, midway through George W. Bush's second term. Six years later, under a Democratic presidency, many of ...
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:02:36 -0700 -
Sex, scents and pheromone
At L.A.'s hottest new party, singles hook up by sniffing slept-in T-shirts. Is it science or speed dating?
Sat, 19 May 2012 12:17:12 -0700 -
On the rack: A cultural history of breast
It's hard to be boobs. Sure, breasts are cherished as givers of milk and the pinnacle of sex appeal, but the modern world hasn't been good to mammaries. As Florence Williams writes in "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History," they're the most tumor-prone organ in the human body. They "soak up pollution like a pair of soft sponges," and transmit environmental toxins to babies through breast ...
Wed, 09 May 2012 17:02:56 -0700 -
Why Obama?s in bed with abstinence-only educatio
In the week since sex educators and activists called out the Obama administration for getting in bed with Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, the Department of Health and Human Services has stayed silent on why the program had been added to a list of approved, ?evidence based? programs for teen pregnancy and STI prevention ? until now. In an interview with Salon, HHS spokesman Mark Weber said ...
Tue, 08 May 2012 10:02:36 -0700 -
Mother-daughter sexpert
Susie Bright and her daughter, Aretha, make parental talks about sex look easy -- and fun
Tue, 15 May 2012 17:17:12 -0700 -