“Drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra”: Carrie Fisher dies.
Carrie Fisher died on Tuesday, 12/27, another casualty of this bitch-of-a-year 2016 (her mom, Debbie Reynolds, a star in her own right, died just one day later!). Carrie was 60 and had suffered a heart attack while flying back from London a week before, and never recovered. Princess Leia to legions of fans, a wry and […]
Will Our Sexual Freedoms Really Be Gone In A Trump Presidency?
Yes, it happened. Yes, you can protest, cry to yourself, damn the Electoral College, click your mouse over to the Canada tourism website daily. The simple fact is, he-who-so-many-won’t-name, is your President Elect. So, what becomes of the country, us all, our rights…and our sexual freedoms with this particular New Yorker taking helm? Roe v.s. […]
CNN, Porn and Ethics
If CNN says it, it has to be true, right? “For many millennials, porn is less taboo and simply part of life. In some ways, that’s a positive thing. Porn — or, as we call it in my field, sexually explicit Internet material or visual sexual stimuli — can be a valuable aspect of a […]
How Much Is Too Much: Showing Off Across Social Media
Is it any surprise that a ‘Real Housewife’ (Vicki Gunvalson to be precise from Real Housewives of Orange County) flashed her bare breasts during a recent episode of the show? These precious moments are what reality television is made from, so the baring of some skin doesn’t really shock ardent viewers or even the mildly […]
Doctors Prove, BDSM Leads To Better Mental Health
In a recent article posted on Psychology Today’s website, Dr. Michael Aaron reveals how “BDSM behavior can have positive mental health benefits.” In a piece title BDSM as Harm Reduction the good doctor postulates that with psychotherapy moving away from “authoritarian Top-down lens approach to a more humanistic, harm reduction approach” (thankfully!) the ‘kinkier’ aspects […]
You Are Not A Feminist
After a September staged reading of Mae West’s play SEX, during the world famous Frigid Theatre Festival, the audience, cast, director-and an actual sex worker-stayed for an audience ‘talk-back’. Of course much was made of the current state of misogyny in the U.S. election (though the recent revelations about Trump, Billy Bush and grabbing women by certain […]
Really, Is All This Social Justice Rhetoric Getting You Any…?
What we once called politically correct speech (and some still do) has now morphed into social justice language. Flourishing on college campuses, into the millennial cultural paradigm, even heard recently on the Emmy awards, erring on the side of trying to not offend, to make sure everyone has their say, to thwart all the ‘isms,’-and […]
Fox News Ladies Jumping From a Sinking Sex Slave Ship…or What’s New With Your News
Regardless if these seeming rampant cases of sexual abuses will be proven, Fox News has suffered some female hosts leavings of late. The latest and arguably highest-of-profiled current woman, Greta Van Susteren put in her resignation from the cable news channel just this week, claiming that Fox has “not felt like a home” for a […]
Anthony Weiner…Again?
Anthony Weiner…Again? This might be addiction, a sickness, or a cry for attention (or all 3) but there is no ignoring now what Anthony Winer is doing with his namesake. Too many times we have wondered over men of high profile and power ‘wielding’ themselves every which way, getting caught time and again, but still […]
Who Are We Crushin’ On Today?
Who We’re Crushin’ On: Olympic Swimmers, Kardashians and the ever present Slick Willy Silver Fox When TMZ is running a side by side shirtless comparison of male 2016 Olympic swimmers, those guys can just about bet they have arrived in the libido of many around the world. When you have enough cultural juice to create a […]
