Category Archives: Sex

Reader, I Married Her

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Tony Judt, a well-known historian, has written an engaging essay called “Girls! Girls! Girls!” for NYRBlog, The New York Review of Books blog, about how our stance towards sexual behavior on (and, by implication, off) campus has changed over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Sex | 102 Comments

A Clever Safe Sex PSA – Definitely NSFW

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The spot is very cleverly done, but there are all kinds of messages here, both implicit and explicit, both conforming to gender stereotypes and not, and I am wondering what other people see and how they feel about it. Also … Continue reading →

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Big Other Post – Thinking About Age Differences, Relationships, and Academics

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Mandolin

Another post at Big Other: It happens. I think we all hear about it. I don’t think most of us talk about it much. It’s a subject for whispers — a dirty academic secret. The TA really is making out … Continue reading →

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I Know I've Had Orgasms That Changed Me

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

A friend of mine who does not like jazz–especially anything that has a saxophone in it–told me once about a conversation she and her ex-husband, a serious jazz-lover, had over dinner with a couple, the male half of which also … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender and the Body, Sex | 11 Comments