Article: “Pornography Addiction” – Science or Naked Rhetoric?

From the article in Psychology Today by Karen Franklin Ph.D:

No one really knows what percentage of Internet use is sexually oriented, or how much money the porn industry is making. Many commonly cited figures are widely exaggerated, and the true figures remain murky and highly contested. Yet it’s safe to say that for some portion […]

Article: Censorship and the Fear of Sexuality

From the thought provoking article by Dr Marty Klein:

Censorship is frequently discussed as a civil liberties issue. As the title of this talk suggests, I want to discuss it in another way, on a more psycho-social level.

Most Americans do not want to discuss sexual issues rationally. Their sexuality poisoned by the culture, they just want […]

Article: Inside China’s sexual revolution

China’s attitude to sex has gone through a “revolution.”

Across 20 years, Chinese citizens are almost five times more likely to have sexual relations before marriage than ever before.

According to Li Yinhe, China’s first female sexologist, this development is because of a “hooliganism law” that enabled women to be arrested for having sex with more than […]

Are People Being Rude? Or Are We Overthinking Things?

From the post by Zac Scy at medium.com:

One thing we can’t escape in our daily lives is the fact that we have to deal with people.

Well, I say “have to” since it can feel like a burden. Perhaps we could put a positive […]

How Can Anyone Resist Writing About Sex?

From the article by

Gina Frangello’s views on writing sex and the importance of female friendship are hard to argue with. Her latest novel is A Life in Men.

“I think sex is one of the great universal truths of life. It is something almost all adult human beings […]

Forget the Tinder dating app – go and meet real people

From the article by Susie O’Brien:

Dating has certainly changed in recent years, and not necessarily for the better. Singles are more likely to head to services such as Tinder, RSVP.com.au or Plenty of Fish, rather than perch on a bar stool.

And of them, the site that everyone’s talking about is Tinder, mainly because it links […]

Emma Watson calls for feminist alternatives to pornography

Emma Watson has called for the creation of “awesome alternatives” to pornography that empower instead of objectifying women.

Watson spoke as she interviewed the iconic feminist campaigner Gloria Steinem to coincide with the release of Steinem’s new book, My Life on the Road, which was the first to be featured in Watson’s new feminist book club Our […]

Old selfies dating back to the 1800s

In the 1880s companies like Kodak invented mass-produced affordable cameras that allowed for multiple copies to be made of images on 35mm film.

“A hundred years before, you had to pay to have someone to paint your portrait, so you had to be someone of means,” Ms Gilmour said.

For women in Western societies where voting rights […]

23 Free Photography E-Books for you!

From Lightstalking, an excellent source of daily photography posts:

You’ve seen them appear in some of our earlier posts on freebies. But today we decided to put all the eBooks together (and many more!) in a single, mega post for you.

These will keep you busy for a really long time.

Go ahead, download them! Print them […]

Sexy selfies are becoming a normal way to flirt

“Demand for raunchy photos and videos between couples is so high that app developer Antony Burrows created Disckreet, an app that allows couples to safely record their intimate files. It requires both partners to be together and enter their passcodes in order to access a file.

“Nothing goes on the cloud and the files are heavily […]

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