If I had been armed with a feminist understanding that no girl deserves to be called a slut, perhaps I would have fought back by reporting the harassment to my school’s headmistress or another school...

Viagra isn’t the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing low doses of Ritalin. Drugs like Ritalin improve a person’s focus,...

Sexuality is not meant to be this way – an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual...

Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.

Sexuality is overtly talked about now but wasn’t really in those days.

The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in this system as the appropriate objects of male penetration with no...

Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.

Equally serious is the complaint that psychoanalysis as a medical practice is a form of oppressive social control, labelling individuals and forcing them to conform to arbitrary definitions of ‘normality’. This charge is in fact...

If she’s faking it you still have a shot at making it work […]

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.

Once I had a wild fling on an otherwise boring weekend holiday in Edinburgh, with a guy I met who turned out to be a psychiatrist. He agreed with me, after hours and hours of...

The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac…

I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.

I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How’s that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of...

Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, ‘fertility cults,’ we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame...

Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist…lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she’s a siren, I heard her call, and I’m diving in hook, line, and sinker....

Love makes temporary saints and poets of us all. We feel the source of life welling up inside us and long to express the joy it brings and share it with the partner of our...

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: ‘My worth is my sexuality. I’m dirty and shameful. I have no right to my...

A tomboy is a bisexual girl’s dream lover.

In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing...

[Bisexuality] is seen as threatening the homosexual/heterosexual and male/female dichotomies, or binarisms, which underpin our gender and sexual identities to such a large extent. In the case of the first three stereotypes, there is a...

She believed being so free with her sexuality was empowering, but I wouldn’t say taking home a douchebag who would laugh about the encounter with his friend later is a step forward in the feminist...

A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling...

What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understandingof identities. If we identify on the basis of race, class, sexuality, orgender alone we cannot make sense of the ways these identificationscombine...

I’m proud of my sexuality.

It was this that frightened me–the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.

repeat after me:1. our immigrant families are not just ‘homophobic’ they are also ‘colonized.’2. our parents have histories, genders, and sexualities, too.3. they are just as broken as we are (but we have the words...

Anatomy lessons are much more fun when conducted in a private coed environment.

Toward the end, a band that had a young fellow from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—I remember on account of him saying it two or three times and laughing every time that he did—played a song called ‘All...

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn’t run...

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender....

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

One day she was going to be found dead mid-hump on a polyurethane phallus

Sexuality, like creativity, is a gift from God.

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

don’t make too much noise”. October’s dust in my lungs, maybe I don’t want bits of four AM lingering in my subconscious. Smokers breathe in fire, coat their insides in ash. Is that suicide or...

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN’T harassed? WHAT?!At MY school a hundred percent of the children – gay, straight, transgendered,...

the most weird things about elders, they learned it on a quiet younger age & don’t want us to.

A man’s heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply...

The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It’s the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.

Nowhere is moral shortcoming more prevalent than in the intersection between our espoused morality and the way we engage romantic and sexual partners. In truth, how we function sexually is a microcosm of the way...

Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more intense plane than anything men could offer, like the romantic rivalries...

Don’t demean what I know is one of your favorite body parts.

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stalks the streets with dripping fangs, fear flies down narrow alleyways on leather wings, and jealousy spins sticky...

We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.