Read moreGiven that having sex for avoidance goals is associated with more negative outcomes for both partners, is it better to not have sex at all than to have sex for avoidance goals? Not necessarily. Couples reported higher relationship satisfaction on days when they had sex, regardless of their reasons for doing so, compared to days without sex.
Good Men Project – Dear Daughter, I Hope You Have Awesome Sex…
You know, if we draw a continuum, on the far right is the guy the above-linked author caricatured — the idiot who is busy trying to gain control over his daughter’s sexuality by threatening the life of his daughter’s boyfriend.
Read moreRead moreThe magnitude of the decline in HPV infections surprised public health experts because only about a third of teenage girls in the United States have been vaccinated with the full course of three doses. By comparison, vaccination rates in countries like Denmark and Britain are above 80 percent.
Firstly, read the whole post. It’s worth it.
Read moreStasi and I just spent a weekend together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we wandered for hours through art galleries and gardens, looking for those works of art that particularly captured us. Toward the afternoon of our second day, Stasi asked me, “Have you seen one painting of a naked man?”
So many times I get couples in my office where the unspoken message is simply, “If you could just make him a little more like me, everything would be just fine.”
In other words, make him just like the men I see on X soap opera or in my favourite romance novel and everything will be fine. Just make him a bearer of feminine power and I’ll be happy…
Read moreA number of years ago, an interesting little scuffle occurred between the author (William Paul Young) of a new sensation called, “The Shack,” and the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Al Moher:
Read moreRos found this a few days ago. It almost stands to be posted without comment…
Read moreRead more“Seems like just yesterday she was this creative 7-year-old kid, pretending her Barbie was the first woman president,” Hayes added. “My, they grow into little more than consumer goods so quickly.”
Marvelling at the rite of passage that all females make from girlhood into entirely disempowered objecthood, Hayes expressed confidence that the 17-year-old would one day become a highly prized physical possession for “one lucky guy.”
The short version: He’s pretty much right on – but he is definitely going to offend a lot of zealots.
I’ve seen his stuff before (though I’ve actually read a lot more out of his rather besieged ex-sex-addict blogging partner, Hugo Schwyzer.) This guy knows what he is talking about – they both do – and he is refreshingly pragmatic and shame/judgment-free.
Read moreRead moreDA: You are talking about so many different levels and layers with the question “is it hyper-sexualized?” Compared to my understanding from Tremper (Longman III) about the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures, no, we’re not hyper-sexualized. If you compare where we are even in the context of other modern cultures’ engagement with sexuality, we’re still somewhat restrained, there is still some regard. Who’s the judge of the term “hyper-sexualization?”