A week ago Friday, a few Kinsey Institute interns and research assistants participated in Indiana University's Women in Science Program's annual research conference. According to the WISP website,
The Women in Science Research Conference is an annual spring event held in […]
This semester I'm a discussion leader for a Human Sexuality class, and yesterday we had a GLBT panel discussion. One of the questions some of the students were curious about pertained to "gaydar", or how to tell if a person is gay or straight just by looking at them. One student said that some people […]
SamanthaSuperfad has created a new Durex condom video clip which I find to be entertaining and completely adorable. It's about 30 seconds long and it depicts blown up condoms having sex. I don't want to spoil the humor, so I'll leave it at that. I highly recommend the outtakes, too! Watch it here at Superfad.
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As most of you know, keeping up an institution website or blog means lots of behind the scenes work. Researching blog facts, finding interesting links, posting photos (which aren't copyrighted - thanks Creative Commons!) to spice up the entries , etc. When we do make changes, it's nice to hear from our readers/subscribers since we […]
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Last night, I had the opportunity to hear Jessica Valenti, founder of and blogger for Feministing.com, speak about her new book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women, in honor of Women’s History Month.
Whew. A long week last week. Sorry for the lapse in blogging. We'll try and play catch up this week with some interesting sexuality news and events from around the interwebs. Look out for a blog about my Women in Science Program presentation experience as well as a fun sex-positive journalism contest called the Sexies, […]
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When I teach human sexuality classes or guest lecture about sex in other professors' classes, students always ask for tips about how to talk to their partner about sex. They're smart - and they know that if neither one of them talks about birth control, then they're not going to feel confident about the extent to which they're protected from pregnancy. And if they're feeling worried or anxious about pregnancy risk, then odds are that they're going to enjoy being intimate together less so than if they felt adequately protected. The same is true about other conversations about sex, such as conversations about…
I have to admit I'm a little biased when it comes to peer education. During my year of service in AmeriCorps, I worked as a Peer Education Program Coordinator at a mid-sized university and loved it.
My peer educators underwent quite a bit of training on a range of health topics and worked really hard […]
When we think of HIV & AIDS, most of us have some stereotypical images in our heads about who gets HIV and where those people are located - big cities, right? Never mind all those other stereotypes that are generally unfounded and in a lot of cases, just plain false. We'll skip those for today, […]
NatalieA while back I signed for Google News updates. This means that anytime the phrases "sexual health," "Kinsey Institute," "sexuality," or "Kinsey" pop up in a news story, I get a daily digest e-mail about it. I think it helps me keep up with current news stories, important political actions on sexuality and sexual health, […]
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