" >Urban Legends about Sexuality: Podcast with Dr. Henken Pt II
If you didn’t catch Part I of this phenomenal interview, then you turn your horse right around this instant and go check it out. You’ve heard them…. you’ve probably told them: stories that happened to a friend of a friend (FOAF) or to your sister’s teammate’s fiance, or your mom’s friend who works in the … Read more
Did You Hear About the Girl Who…. :Podcast with Dr. Elissa Henken Pt I
Urban legends, rumors, gossip, jokes and folklore: they are part of our every day conversations and they shape the way we view almost everything. Have you ever stopped doing something (or started) because you heard about something terrible that happened to some girl that was a friend of friend? Have you ever heard about the … Read more
Hugo Schwyzer: Male Feminist/ Lightning Rod
I first encountered history and gender studies professor Dr. Hugo Schwyzer‘s work on the Good Men Project, a site that aims to be an enlightened, cerebral counterpoint to glossy lad mags. I was struck by how surprisingly validating it was to have a dude say things about feminism with which I agreed. Not that I needed … Read more
A Thought in Three Parts
A Thought in Three Parts is a “notoriously seldom produced” play written by Wallace Shawn (Inconceivable!) The reason is it so rarely put on stage is that the second part (of the three) is roughly 30 minutes of on-stage nudity and something like 20 sexual acts resulting in orgasm. When it first appeared in London … Read more
Sex in Space
As humans explore outward from our planet, we still must address the most basic of our biological needs. This episode of The Universe explores the psychological, physiological and cultural complications of sex in space. How will the extreme environments affect us, our ability to do it and procreate? Have people already hooked up in zero … Read more
