I get a lot of questions and requests for quotes and insight. I always try to offer outreaching writers, reporters, and scholars something in terms of a response, even if the queries themselves are somewhat off-mark. (Sometimes I re-write questions to be more precise, have more inclusive and/or accurate language,
I recently corresponded with a writer from SheKnows about “three to five ‘new ways’ to initiate sex that will jumpstart your relationship.” Since I’m not a “sexpert,” this was a bit of a challenge. There are plenty of specific, task-oriented ideas out there, but what’s the bigger overacting issue? That’s what
Some old news about something pretty crappy got re-upped recently. The old news: Tumblr has banned sexually explicit content. I was even featured in a Nightline segment about this issue when it happened and spoke to the New York Times about it, too — because this was actually really huge
There’re not a lot of things in life that make me uncomfortable. I have been asked just about every sex-related question you can imagine, often addressing topics that are wildly outside my areas of expertise — the difference between sociologist and (I assume) psychologist are often a bit unclear in
At the very end of last year, I corresponded with a writer called Jeroen Zuallaert. Zuallaert explained he was a journalist working for the Belgian news magazine, Knack.be — with a readership “at about 95.000, [they] are the leading news magazine in the Benelux countries.” The Benelux Union is a political and economic coalition of
I once again got to organize and moderate the Mindbrowse.com live broadcast discussion event held during XBIZ 2019. This year’s topic was about consent — before, during, and after performers’ time on set. Here’s something I said about it: “This year’s Mindbrowse event was both rousing and eye-opening. It’s not
I recently spoke to Lauren Vinopal who was writing a piece for Fatherly about fauxcest. Specifically, she was exploring what sort of impact fauxcest porn (especially fauxcest porn regarding stepmoms) might have on men and fathers in the US? She wrote: The rise of divorce in America led to the
Another AEE has come and gone. I had the great experience, as per usual, of moderating a panel at the show this year. It was called “What’s the Big Idea: AEE’s First Annual Disruptors Panel.” Here’s my introduction for the seminar — short and sweet! A disruption is often thought
I recently wrote a book review that was published in Theory in Action Volume 12, No. 1 (January 31, 2019) — a consideration of Laura Kipnis’ Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, which was published in 2017. Here is the link to the journal itself. Since it says the work
I was contacted earlier this month by Andrew Fiouzi, writing for MEL magazine. Fiouzi had an interesting question — What counts as a “quickie”? Here’s his question: “I’m writing a story on the ‘quickie.’ I was hoping you could send me a few sentences based in your expertise/research on what constitutes a ‘quickie’ in the realm of