Many people have questions about sex therapy.
Let’s start by debunking some common myths about sex therapy. For example, as part of sex therapy, you will never be asked to:
via “5 Things That Will Never Happen in a Sex Therapy Session”: Sexual Health Community – Support Group.
Peter K. Jonason is a booty-call expert. Only, his expertise comes not from late-night drunken text messages but from authoring academic studies on the mating habits of the American college student (which is to say: booty calls).
LONDON (Reuters) – Too shy to read the Kama Sutra on the train during rush hour? Just take out your headphones.
The ancient sex guide dating back 1,600 years has been published as an audio book for the first time in its long history in what its British-based publisher described as a "perfect meeting of ancient history and modernity."
via Ancient sex guide published as audio book – Yahoo! News.
Parents, brace yourselves: The number of preteen girls taking birth control is on the rise, according to a new report out of Britain. The findings by the government-funded General Practice Research Database have prompted the usual response to anything relating to underage sexuality: sheer and utter panic.
via Time to panic? More preteens are on birth control – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
This week, everyone is talking about young women’s sex lives. Sure, that’s pretty much always the case — but this week saw the birth of an interesting debate about whether young sex-positive women are shunning the drunken one-night stands of yesteryear and reconsidering (whispers) abstinence.
via Everyone’s an expert on girls’ sex lives – Sex News, Sex Talk – Salon.com.
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Last week, the media was worked into a breathless frenzy over the potential discovery of a “female Viagra.” The results of a new study showed that a prototype drug made by Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, successfully increased blood flow to the genitals — of female rabbits. That was all it took for news outlets to trumpet the imminent arrival of a sex drug for the ladies.
via The quest for the perfect female orgasm – Sex News, Sex Talk – Salon.com.
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The casual sex backlash is here. Even so-called sex-positive feminists are starting to express their shame and regret over past one-night stands, says Jessica Grose in Slate. This is sure to cause many conservatives to rejoice, but I suspect the report of hookup culture’s death has been greatly exaggerated.
Don't get me wrong: Grose, a writer I greatly respect, makes an intriguing and provocative argument. She offers up plenty of evidence of recent cultural shifts for our consideration. For example:
Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was put in jail. Christina Aguilera married a nice Jewish boy and had a baby. She’s been replaced on the pop charts by 19-year-old virginal chanteuse Taylor Swift, who sings chaste love songs about Romeo and Juliet. Paris Hilton is rarely in the tabloids and we haven’t seen her nether regions in years. Finally, the fictional Carrie Bradshaw is wed and living a New York domestic fantasy.
via Sexual shame is so hot right now – Sex – Salon.com.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
You can call off the search party. British researchers have declared that the G-spot, like phoukas, the lost city of Atlantis and compassionate conservatism, is a myth. But wait, you say. Last night, when he did that and then I did that and it all went whoosh? OK, just stop right there. That was just your imagination running away with you.
The BBC reports today that a forthcoming study for the Journal of Sexual Medicine failed to find proof of the elusive area’s existence. Researchers asked 1,804 women between the ages of 23 and 83, all of whom were identical or fraternal twins, whether they had a G-spot, on the presumption that identical twins would give identical answers. But they didn’t. Despite having identical genes and therefore presumably, identical pleasure zones, they were no more likely to be in agreement than fraternal twins. So there.
In her ostensibly reassuring explanation of the results, the study's coauthor Andrea Burri said, “It is rather irresponsible to claim the existence of an entity that has never been proven and pressurize women — and men too.” As irresponsible as suggesting that sexual inquiry is “pressure”?
It’s spawned a VH1 show and an excuse for Tiger Woods. But some experts balk at the idea of being hooked on nooky
By Tracy Clark-Flory
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After surrendering their vibrators and porno DVDs, the stars of VH1′s “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” have chain-smoked their way through three long, sexless weeks of treatment. The motley crew of pseudo-celebrities — including a porn star, a beauty queen and an obscure rock musician — have stripped their emotions bare in nationally broadcast group therapy, tearfully sharing stories of past abuse, anonymous sex, hours upon hours of smut surfing and, above all else, consuming shame. But here’s a question that the show, which ended its first season Sunday night, never bothered to ask: Are these people really addicts?
Since the term was coined in 1983, “sex addiction” has become so embroidered in our self-help vocabulary that most of us stopped questioning it. The term gets bandied about whenever Bill Clinton logs extracurricular time with an intern or Eliot Spitzer gets caught having sex in his socks or David Duchovny separates from his wife. Recently “Sex Rehab” host Dr. Drew Pinsky made headlines by suggesting that Tiger Woods has a sex addiction. It’s become the go-to defense for extramarital affairs (I’m not an asshole; I’m an addict!) and been sold to “Oprah” viewers eager to diagnose their porn-loving husbands as both addicts and assholes.
Patrick Carnes, the leading expert in sex addiction, defines it as “any sexually related, compulsive behavior which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones, and one’s work environment.” But here’s the tricky part: What’s the difference between the symptom of a compulsive disease and a disease itself? Repeatedly lathering up in the sink is a sign of OCD. We don’t call those people hand-washing addicts, now, do we? Unlike most addictive substances, sex can’t be smoked, snorted or mainlined. The term isn’t recognized in the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), the bible of therapists everywhere (although along with other controversial diagnoses, like those relating to gender identity, sex addiction is being debated for a new version). But for many sex educators and sex-positive experts, hearing the term spoken about so casually, so frequently, is nothing short of maddening.
via Sex – Salon.com.
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The answer to Freud’s famous question, “What do women want?” increasingly seems to be: Not even women know.
Last week, actress Meredith Baxter, best known as über-mom Elyse Keaton on the 1980’s sitcom “Family Ties,” came out on “The Today Show,” telling Matt Lauer that after three marriages and five children (now all adults) she finally realized she was a lesbian after she fell in love with a woman. In a statement that I’ve heard from other women who’ve discovered their true sexuality in mid-life, Baxter said that being with her partner, Nancy Locke, made the difficulties she’d always experienced with men suddenly become clear. “I thought I was just a bad picker,” she told Lauer in explaining how she’d made sense of her failed heterosexual relationships.
And indeed she was. For 30-plus years, she was picking partners of the entirely wrong gender.
via You Might Be A Lesbian — And Not Know It! – Silkstone – Open Salon.
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