Posts Tagged ‘Sexuality’
Our Abstinence Fetish
I believe that only married people should have sex. You probably do, too. Evangelicals breastfeed their young on the notion that exchanging bodily fluids other than saliva (and sometimes that’s off limits) shouldn’t happen outside the bounds of matrimony.
Now, tell me where it says that in the...
August 4th, 2011 | Essays, Featured | Read More
The Red Boot Diaries
For my birthday recently a friend from work gave me, as a joke—at least I think it was a joke (I mean, I’m not really that kind of girl), a copy of the National Enquirer. The cover story was “John Edwards caught cheating again!” Also on the cover, in smaller type, was a teaser about a follow-up...
April 22nd, 2010 | Social Justice | Read More
Jesus Wants Your Vajayjay
A few years ago I ran the medical clinic at a camp in the Pocono Mountains. Local churches donated scholarship money, and the funds were used to bus kids from Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York City to the mountains for a week in the great outdoors.
The summer was as much a learning experience for...
November 20th, 2009 | Featured, The Remedy | Read More
In Our Image (or, Why I Don’t Click on Spam about Penis Size)
“women don’t like it when the friend in your pants is sleepy”
“don’t you just want to run away when you can’t satisfy your girl?”
There’s a reason spam comes in certain types; these hackers want us to click on something and hand over our personal information, which means each ad has to...
October 26th, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More


