Forbes reports on a study out in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine:
Regardless of their political leanings, the majority of American adults (80.4 percent) favors a balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other ways of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, [...]
Sifted back up to the top of the sexblogs by Warren Eliis: stop-motion animated short “The Sex Life of Robots.” Director Michael Sullivan is interviewed here on the Creating Success podcast:
powered by ODEOSullivan’s been a working artist for nearly 40 years, and discusses how working in the tightly-controlled advertising world inspired him, and what [...]
A month from today, I head out to Europe for the Nordic EXceptional Trendshop in Copenhagen. I’ll be there to present The Aphrodite Project: Platforms, a conceptual art project by Norene Leddy involving platform shoes fitted with video screens and GPS to promote sex worker visibility and safety in urban environments.
After the Trendshop, I’d [...]
A students’ union in France has released a study showing a rise in the number of French students entering the sex industry:
According to the SUD-Etudiant union, 40,000 students in France - or nearly 2 per cent - fund their studies through the sex trade.
The union says jobs taken by female students include hostess work and [...]
New Scientist has cracked the sleep sex story once again, reporting on the effects sexsomnia has on intimate relationships. (If you, like me, are temporarily without bugmenot, just check the Reuters story, which is pretty close.)
It’s difficult to find much publicly available on the subject, but the next time you’re in the stacks at your [...]
Imagine just tumbling out of bed and flipping on something smart and sexy to greet the weekend. It’s the future, so you can.
Here’s Dita von Teese, giving great interview (her voice!) on the history of the striptease, with a whole load of cute-as-heck clips of 50’s and 60’s burlesque performers.
“If you grew up as [...]
Cover story in Saturday’s San Francisco Chronicle: “A scary trend: sexy costumes for young girls.” Cliff’s Notes version: sexy is the new scary, and what is the world coming to, and goodness gracious, how can we protect our collective innocence from the destructive influence of slutty outfits? (Which, of course, the paper will [...]
Open up my little 1960’s stewardess-chic traincase, TSA, and find these this morning lurking beneath my tiny toiletries:
Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex, Patrick Califia. Galpal and queer writer Gina de Vries lent me this for my flight today, and I’m so avoiding going up to the gate to remian curled [...]
The inimitable Rachel Kramer Bussel points to this ABC news piece on what seems to be the perils of Halloween sluttiness (short version: the one day a year any woman can be a slut and get away with it… or not?) but is really one of the better critiques of Ariel Levy’s backlash-tastic blockbuster, Female [...]
Dirty Girl Things scores with this photo of the freshly unveiled coco de mer in Los Angeles, having opened just a few days after I left town. So even if I’m sore at not getting to fondle his knickers personally, I can still give a sweet Sexerati Tip of the Hat to coco de [...]