Yearly Archives: 2008

A 3-D clitoral antidote to hippie sex illustrations

A few of the Channel 4/Sexperience videos are now available to embed. This one above, on the female orgasm, has a very pretty anatomical model of the internal clitoris. Far less self-consciously groovy-feeling than the material on the same formerly only gleaned from sneaking looks at the 1970 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.

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Obama’s sex-positive checklist

A sex-positive checklist for Obama, by Dr. Marty Klein (via Regina Lynn).

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Channel 4’s Sex Ed Show: Clever, Cute, and Why Can’t We Embed It?

The sharp folks at Channel 4 has been running The Sex Education Show since September. Those of us outside the UK can watch on YouTube or on their website, but we can’t share the sex ed as freely as we ought to be able to: no embedding. Come on! This is the kind [...]

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My “expert” is your girlfriend, or, the wide, wide gap between selling & doing sexpertise

(Photo: tank top in Thailand, by Dust Mason)
In her new paper, Consciousness-raising 2.0: Sex Blogging and the Creation of a Feminist Sex Commons, Elizabeth Wood of Sex in the Public Square argues for the value of women’s personal blogging about sex. Those 1970’s “consciousness-raising” groups, designed to bring women together to share stories, find common [...]

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It takes 30K users to get good press (and get tested)

inSpot, the service that lets you send anonymous ecards to past partners you may have exposed to an STI, has hit 30,000 users and a burst of really fair press. Where once there was disbelief — that anyone would ever send a message through a web app about infectious risk to someone they’d slept with [...]

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Universal sex ed, including for imaginary creatures

(”Love will find a way” tee, via)

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Voters unbound

via Babeland

Declare Yourself aims to mobilize “every 18 year old” to get out and vote. The age of consent for bondage isn’t so clear.

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Sexperts, squared.

Sexperts, squared. Susannah “Fuck the sexperts” Breslin, in her interview with sex blogger Lux Alptraum asks, “What’s an average day in the life of a sexpert like?” Alptraum: “It all depends on how I’m channeling my sexpertise.” Proof that sexpert is more useful as a marketing term than anything else. Unless there’s a better reason [...]

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Variations on a theme

(If someone had told me that I could have met Ira Glass — here, with Sex, Etc. — in the course of doing sex ed as a teenager…)
Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize last week for his work drawing the connection between the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer. In isolating the [...]

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The end of sexpertise

“Untitled (We won’t be our own best enemy),” Barbara Kruger
It’s one thing to get laid off from a writing gig: it’s another thing to watch that layoff turn up in a trend piece. And another. And another. My editor and I used to joke, it takes three to make a trend, but two in a [...]

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