Masturbation: Its Purpose and Its Variations
Sofia Barrett-Ibarria’s article for Vice, “How to Enjoy Masturbation,” raises a trivial concept. How to enjoy masturbation more is, in a sense, like asking “how to enjoy a five-mile run more?” Answer: Wear earphones. The essential question is: what is the purpose of masturbation? And the answer is: to extend the sexual imagination, and…
Read MoreMiley Cyrus’s Publicity Ploy
Call me skeptical, but I don’t believe that Miley Cyrus decorates her home with sex toys, despite a Yahoo news report that says she does. The idea is is wildly impractical. How would the logistics work? “This is my vibrator sofa, but be careful where you sit. Oh, sorry about that.” Or does she use things…
Read MoreStrange Bedfellows, Indeed
What do a deputy sheriff and a porn star have in common? I’ll get to the sheriff’s deputy in moment. But first, let’s talk about Ron Jeremy. The Case of Porn Star Ron Jeremy This is not meant in any sense to be en exculpation of porn star Ron Jeremy, who is very famous and…
Read MoreThe Jeffrey Toobin Witch Hunt
The story about former New Yorker legal writer Jeffrey Toobin’s problems reminds of of the Salem witch trials. We’re being assaulted with a series of pieces on masturbating at work and how awful it is, whether or not you know you are being watched. Masturbation Doesn’t Require Termination In Slate, Ben Mathis-Lilley writes, “The issue…
Read MoreNicholas Kristof Blows the Whistle on Pornhub
Nicholas Kristof was absolutely right to blow the whistle on Pornhub in his New York Times piece, since the dissemination of child pornography is absolutely unacceptable. Yet the reaction Kristof touched off seems to be more anti-porn than anti-child abuse. People are jumping up and down in rage in Nebraska, because the article gives them…
Read MoreSexual Misconduct in the FBI
Accountability for Sexual Misconduct May Vary Sexual misconduct stories, such as the one the Associated Press reported recently, don’t just “shake senior ranks” of the FBI. They shake everyone with a social conscience. Such workplace harassment is absolutely intolerable in an era where women are expected to aspire in the workplace to careers, just as…
Read MoreIs Candace Cameron Bure’s Instagram Photo Inappropriate?
Should Candace Cameron Bure’s have posted a personal photo on her Instagram account? Certainly. There was no controversy here, and no apology was necessary. I’m pleased that none was given, either. Her television father, Bob Saget, agrees with me. There is something sweet about this photo of Ms. Bure and her husband with his hand…
Read MoreThe Sex Toy Industry Is Better Than Michael Morrison
I don’t want to criticize Atlanta and its suburbs, which have given Michael Morrison such a hard time, as prudish or retrograde. We recall that, in the recent US presidential elections, Atlanta has emerged as a bastion of liberalism, and Joe Biden carried Georgia! So, in Georgia, they must be doing something right. It’s…
Read MoreWhere Do the Legs Go?
It’s hard to tell who gives more awful sex advice: the media or the experts. Much of the media’s depiction of sex seems directed at 14-year-olds, who can’t figure out where the legs go. The experts seem completely hung up on making people feel good about themselves, which is not really the name of…
Read MoreDr. Ruth Westheimer Seems Out of Touch
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who fled Germany in 1938 as an orphan of the Holocaust, is very much a child of the twentieth century. But why is she answering viewers’ questions about sex in the age of the coronavirus on CNN? How is she still relevant? A Voice of the 1950s Dr. Ruth has made her…
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