Cory Silverberg is the Sexuality Guide for
About.com, a founding
member of the Come As You Are Co-operative,
and an AASECT certified sexuality educator.
He is the co-author of the Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
and sits on the board of
Internet Sexuality Information Services.

Blog Entries by Cory Silverberg

What's Missing in the Search for Female Viagra

3 Comments | Posted November 2, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


Terry Allen has a short but pointed rant in In These Times on what she calls "restless vagina syndrome" otherwise known as female sexual dysfunction, and it's supposed cure, which thanks to an uncritical media has been constructed as the hunt for a female Viagra.

There's so...

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How Sex Could Save Newspapers

1 Comments | Posted October 20, 2009 | 04:51 PM (EST)


There’s been so much hand wringing about the future of newspapers and most of it does little more than repeat an ominous warning of the end of days that will come about when newspapers cease to be the thing they are now.  So I was pleasantly surprised to hear a...

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Are Teens Heading in the Wrong Direction?

Posted June 21, 2009 | 09:41 PM (EST)


The latest release from the Guttmacher Institute announced that teens are heading in the wrong direction. The release is referring to a new study that shows teens are less likely to be using condoms than they were 10 years ago.

I definitely agree teen contraceptive use is headed...

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Some Very Un-Joyous Sex

Posted March 12, 2009 | 03:00 PM (EST)


I'm a bit late to the game on the updated edition of the 1972 classic The Joy of Sex. But last week a CBC radio producer emailed me to ask what I thought of the new-ish version and I realized that it was still sitting there in the...

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Sexual Hope With A Happy Ending

Posted February 15, 2009 | 09:42 AM (EST)


Cory Silverberg will join Esther Perel, Amy Sohn, Leonore Tiefer and Ian Kerner for a conversation called "Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change?" The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huffington Post and Open Center and will take place in New York City on Friday, February 20th. Click here...

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Other Sexual Conversations Worth Having

Posted February 13, 2009 | 12:03 PM (EST)


Cory Silverberg will join Esther Perel, Amy Sohn, Leonore Tiefer and Ian Kerner for a conversation called "Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change?" The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huffington Post and Open Center and will take place in New York City on Friday, February 20th. Click here...

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A Sexual Categorical Imperative (or Why Kant Is Not a Dirty Word)

Posted February 11, 2009 | 12:37 PM (EST)


Cory Silverberg will join Esther Perel, Amy Sohn, Leonore Tiefer and Ian Kerner for a conversation called "Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change?" The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huffington Post and Open Center and will take place in New York City on Friday, February 20th. Click here...

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A New Sexual Conversation in America

Posted February 4, 2009 | 06:01 PM (EST)


Cory Silverberg will join Esther Perel, Amy Sohn, Leonore Tiefer and Ian Kerner for a conversation called "Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change?" The symposium is co-sponsored by the Huffington Post and Open Center and will take place in New York City on Friday, February 20th. Click here...

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