Betty Dodson, You Are Awesome!
The lady-bation activist, artist, revolutionary, and all around stunning life-liver, Betty Dodson, endorsed our movie!
SSL Interview: Dana Edell of SPARK part 2
PArt 2 of 2 - My interview with Dana Edell, director SPARK, a group focused on addressing the harms caused by the sexualization of girls in our culture.
SSL Interview: Dana Edell of SPARK part 1
Part 1 of 2 - My interview with Dana Edell, director SPARK, a group focused on addressing the harms caused by the sexualization of girls in our culture.
SSL Interview: Miriam Reumann
An Interview with Miriam Reumann, author of the fabulous book, “American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports,” which is actually the main inspiration for a section of our movie, Science, Sex, and the Ladies.
SSL Interview: Deborah Tolman (Part 2)
Part 2 of 2 - I interview Deborah Tolman, author of “Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality. “ This book is a qualitative study where Tolman speaks to 31 suburban and urban teen girls about their experiences of desire. It’s actually the inspiration, for a whole section of our movie, ‘Science, Sex, and the Ladies.’ I highly recommend reading it.
SSL Interview: Deborah Tolman (Part 1)
Part 1 of 2 - I interview Deborah Tolman, author of “Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality. “ This book is a qualitative study where Tolman speaks to 31 suburban and urban teen girls about their experiences of desire. It’s actually the inspiration, for a whole section of our movie, ‘Science, Sex, and the Ladies.’ I highly recommend reading it.
Ashton Kutcher Just Got Hotter (Through His Feminist Sex Positive Leanings)
Ashton Kutcher is speaking some lady-gasm empowerment
Blag Hag - She Asked "Why is the G-spot still such a mystery?" And I Fell In Love
I found the blog, Blag Hag, where they reviewed 2 g-spot article in a thoughtful on point way, and I pretty much love this site.
SSL Interview: Dr. Lonnie Barbach (part 2)
Part 2 of 2 - I interview Lonnie Barbach, author of the on-point book, ‘For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality.’ Check this book out. It’s from the 70’s but still completely relevant.
SSL Interview: Dr. Lonnie Barbach (part 1)
Part 1 of 2 - I interview Lonnie Barbach, author of the on-point book, ‘For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality.’ Check this book out. It’s from the 70’s but still completely relevant.
Pleasure and "Choosing" Whether To Have An Orgasm - Why Women Deserve Just A Little Better
Inspired by a blog post from the author of, “What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend,” I consider women and the “choice” to orgasm with a partner - “While acknowledging that women can enjoy and find pleasure in sex without orgasm, we should also be working to make the choice to have or not to have an orgasm an actual viable choice for women.”
A critique of "Hard Core," an article by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
I critique "Hard Core," an article by Natasha Vargas-Cooper in the Atlantic. It’s not great on scientific logic about innate gender qualities, but the emotional place it’s coming from feels complicated, raw and very real to me in a way that I believe is important.
The Kim Cattrall / Samantha Split in All of Us
Kim Cattrall (of Samantha fame in Sex and the City), wrote a book to specifically separate herself and her sex life from her character. It highlights to me the problematic depiction of a sexual woman that ‘has sex like a man’ - because in reality it’s a depiction of a woman that unabashedly has sex that is pleasurable for a man, but fakes her own pleasure…yet we are unwilling to see it that way.
Playboy for the LADIES!
I learned of this magazine, Filament, that focuses on the Female gaze…specifically women taking erotic nudes of men.
The book everyone needs to read
It’s a must read and integral to sections of our movie, Science, Sex, and the Ladies - Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality by Shere Hite. Find it and read it.