Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Sixth in a series based on the new book, Fifty Shades [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
What turns men on, really?
(Fifth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photocredit: Pedrosimoes7 ) As simple as it gets “Wolfgang likes to look at images of female derrieres. [...]
The elements of desire
(Fourth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7) There’s an app for that Much like your average personal computer, the human brain [...]
The strange new science behind “A Billion Wicked Thoughts”
A shocking discovery It’s not so unusual these days for a woman to discover pornographic pictures on her husband’s computer. But the images that one wife found recently were especially shocking. Her first thought when she found them was, “This is the end of our marriage.” Her next thought was, “This is the end [...]
The Perfect Vagina — Why is genital cosmetic surgery suddenly so popular?
Detail from “Modesty,” by sculptor Jamie McCartney. Reproduced by permission of the artist. www.jamiemccartney.com Why are more women choosing to have genital cosmetic surgery? After viewing a recent Channel 4 film “The Perfect Vagina,” by British Documentary Director and Producer Heather Leach, I understood why. It’s the explosion in the last decade of print and [...]
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Rearch (SSTAR): Presentation of the 2011 SSTAR Consumer Book Award to Sex at Dawn
I just returned from the annual spring meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). The Society gathers leading sex clinicians and researchers from all over the country and the world, and features the most recent developments in sexual science and practice. As a member of SSTAR’s Consumer Book Award committee, I had the privilege [...]
Eros, thanatos, and Sunday afternoon
(Part 3 of a series prompted by Vanessa Woods’ Bonobo Handshake.) Across the river and into the trees One day last summer my son came home from a birthday party covered with bruises, bleeding, and looking very proud of himself. Happily examining his wounds in the bathtub, he explained that he’d been playing paintball, which [...]
Empathy’s magic
(Part 2 of a series prompted by Vanessa Wood’s Bonobo Handshake. Part 3 will follow shortly, after which we’ll return to our main subject) Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 Empathy and its impediments When my daughter was seven, our nanny Irene got married and moved to Florida. This was a big loss for my daughter, who for [...]
Sex in the wild
A new twist on the apple At a recent informal meeting of New York City sex therapists to discuss his new book Sex at Dawn, psychologist Chris Ryan played us a videotape showing a bonobo orgy. The tape was several minutes long. It showed a small crew of cute little apes cavorting in the grass in all [...]
The year in clinical sexuality, 2010
As we get ready to close the books on 2010, I would like to express my gratitude to family, friends, and colleagues for your support and encouragement over the past year. And to all my patients for your trust and confidence. May we all merit much happiness in 2011. In ending the year, [...]
Contemporary sexuality and the Brazilian wax
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 Does she, or doesn’t she? “When I was teaching the class of fifteen-year-olds and it was time for the girls to ask their questions of boys, they wanted to know this: ‘Do you prefer girls who have a little hair or a lot of hair?’ I thought they meant hairstyles, as in [...]
