Best Sex Writing 2008

30Mar08

I went to a reading on Thursday night from Best Sex Writing 2008. It’s an excellent collection of essays covering topics from circumcision to racial identity in human sexuality research. I am really impressed by the work that is being done in sexuality. We’ve come a long way since Freud. [...]

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Lets talk about porn (and feminism)

04Sep07

Pornography is one of those hot button issues that probably looks very different in person than it does in political debates.  Politicians love to hate it.  Religious crusaders are quick to point to Sodom and Gomorrah, which any rabbinical student will tell you were destroyed for their lack of hospitality rather than their promiscuity.  And [...]

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Academic musings

23Aug07

I am reading Bodies of Inscription, which is an anthropology thesis about tattooing communities.  I do not have any tattoos – eventually I will find a place on my body for that grotesque I have been thinking about for years, but that’s beside the point.  The reason I am interested in the book is because [...]

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