Year: 2010

I love how Mind Hacks tells us that psychologist Jesse Bering‘s article about masturbation “has ick and wow in equal measure” — but also calls it “absolutely remarkable.” And that it is. Bering writes for Scientific American, and is one of those writers whose genius lies in being able to take research psychology and the…

Seeing as the subject of women watching porn is a hot topic right now (again), it’s fitting for me to point you toward The Female Gaze, a film competition from woman-owned, porn-for-women site For The Girls. It’s not just about women watching, it’s about what they’re making for the enjoyment of themselves and porn viewers…

* You’ll understand this week’s headline when you read Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University, where Dan Savage discovers and reveals something horrifying going on behind closed doors: A pediatric urologist at Cornell—Dix Poppas—has been operating on little girls with what he judges to be oversized clitorises, cutting away important clitoral tissues, and then stitching…