Womens Sexuality

Women Want Their Sexuality Back -- Now. And Opening Marriage Just Might Help.

Jenny Block | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Open Marriage, Relationships, Sex, Open: Love, Jenny Block, Polyamory, Full Frontal Feminism, Affairs, Feministing.com, Sexuality, And Life in an Open Marriage, Marriage, Abstinence Only, Sexism, Jessica Valenti, Stds, Purity Balls, Love, Feministing, Women's Sexuality, Smu, Living News
Jenny Block

Once we girls refuse to think of ourselves as nothing more than receptacles for the male sex organ, then we are free to spend less time tossing our hair and more time tossing out the trash who are serving in office.

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Pervasive Stigma Surrounds Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women With HIV, HIV/AIDS, Stds, Women With AIDS, United State HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Disease, Female Condom, Safe Sex, Public Health, HIV/AIDS Stigma, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Amfar, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Women with HIV/AIDS may suffer greater stigma than men -- they may be blamed as carriers, either as prostitutes infecting men or mothers infecting their infants.

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Celebrating Fertile Bodies as Well as Fertile Minds

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Reproduction, Family Planning, Maternity Leave, Midwives, Midwife, Pregnancy, Fertility, Paternity Leave, Planned Parenthood, Sexuality, Gardasil, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Women's Sexuality, Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Barbara Seaman, Doula, Living News
Karen Kisslinger

Barbara Seaman's general advice on new innovations for women: "wait 5 years" until we know if it's really safe.

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What Is Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome?

ABC News | Carol Berczuk and John Quinones | Posted 02.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Psas, Grey's Anatomy, Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome, Women's Sexuality, Sexuality, Sex, Living News

PSAS, identified and named just six years ago, remains a mysterious condition that thousands of women wish they didn't have. They are constantly on th...

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You Can't Say That on Television: Jane Fonda and the C-Word

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 02.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Misogyny, Texas Obscene Devices, Feminist, The Vagina Monologues, Mark Halperin Pussy, Jane Fonda, Jane Fonda Vagina Monologues, Jane Fonda and Cunt, Bitch Magazine, Feminism, Sexuality, Double Standard, Mark Halperin, Women's Sexuality, Bad Words, Texas Sex Toys, Sexual Double Standard, Bitch, Sexism, Eve Ensler, Today Show, Hillary Clinton, Jane Fonda Today Show, Living News
Jessica Wakeman

I don't want the only people who are "allowed" to say "dirty" words about women to be the people who are trying to hurt us.

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From Superdome to Superlove -- V-Day at 10

Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Sexual Violence, V-Day, Feminist, Women's Health, Sex, The Vagina Monologues, Sexism, Eve Ensler, Theater, Media Sexism, Feminism, Superdome, Living News
Marianne Schnall

The "mega event of the decade," as Eve Ensler describes it, is certain to be The Vagina Monologues' and V-Day's ten-year anniversary celebration, V to the Tenth.

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Seventeen Tackles New Teen (Pregnancy) Trend

Shelby Knox | Posted 01.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Jamie Lynn Spears, Women's Sexuality, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Juno, Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant, Candie's Foundation, Jamie Lynn Pregnant, Sex, Teen Pregnancy, Seventeen Magazine, Sexuality, Living News
Shelby Knox

While Juno is trading a hospital gown for Oscar couture and Jamie Lynn is dodging photogs, the public is grappling with the new visibility of the teen baby bump.

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Politically Correct Sex (For Women)

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Oprah Winfrey, Sex, Self-Cultivation, Female Masturbation, Women Masturbation, Northrup, Christiane Northrup, Oprah Winfrey Masturbation, Sexuality, Masturbation, Living News
Joan Z. Shore

While it's perfectly all right for men to "masturbate," women doing approximately the same thing are now "cultivating" themselves?

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"You Are Responsible For Your Own Orgasm"

tangomag.com | Jenny Block | Posted 12.26.2007 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Open Relationships, Open Marriage, Living News

I WAS 17 WHEN my sexual education began. "You are responsible for your own orgasm," my boyfriend told me. He was the guy I lost my virginity to, the ...

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'Tis the Season of Female Genitalia

Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Sexual Health, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Girls Body Image, Body Image, Women and Body Image, Sexuality, Living News
Joyce McFadden

If girls are raised to feel guilt or shame in their sexuality, whether it's taught expressly or through silent undertones, it becomes a weight that drowns their vitality throughout their lives.

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ENDA Will Never Be a Long Term Solution for Anyone, Anyway

Kate Bornstein | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Men's Sexuality, Desire, Enda, Sexual Orientation, Barney Frank, Transgendered, Transsexual, Sexuality and Law, Gay, Race, Sexuality, Gender, Homosexuals, Women's Sexuality, Barney Frank Transsexual, Homosexuality, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Gay Rights, Identity Politics, Sex, Tranny, Discrimination, Class, Politics News
Kate Bornstein

ENDA would have mostly protected people who cleaned up well enough to get a job in the first place: straight-looking people.

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Women In Their Sexual Peak Scare Most Men... To Younger Girls

men.style.com | Mac Montandon | Posted 09.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Kim Catrall, Men's Sexual Inadequacy, Older Women, Living News

Among the universe's cruel ironies--pretty much anything having to do with puberty, say, or the career arc of Michael Bay--this has to be near the top...

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Marriage, Reconsidered: One Size Does Not Fit All

Michele Scheinkman | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Couples Therapy, Marriage, Marriage Counseling, Monogamous Marriages, Sex in Marriages, Saving Marriages, Living News
Michele Scheinkman

It is possible that the institution of Marriage, as it prevails today will not be saved, but if we entertain the possibility that in the future we will have a variety of possible arrangements for being a couple, the answer may be different.

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