Sex and Relationships
Depathologizing difference: STI stigma
We should reject the just-world fallacy and stop stigmatizing diseases that are easily treatable.
Depathologizing difference: Drive disparity
We'll all have more happiness and fulfillment when we can recognize individual differences in sex drive.
Odds and ends: The roaring twenty-twenties
We're repeating historical patterns from a hundred years ago, in more ways than one.
Odds and ends: Ancient Greece and sexual identities
The ancients thought of sexual behavior as a phase of life, not an immutable identity. We can learn from that idea.
Odds and ends: The Amish response to technocentrism
We could all take a lesson from the Amish approach to technology.
AI chatbots are coming for you: The glass is half-full, and AI can't draw it
We need to use technology mindfully to enhance our experiences without diminishing ourselves.
AI chatbots are coming for you: A glitch in the (nervous) system
All minds, as well as mind-like AIs, use tricks and shortcuts that make them brittle.
AI chatbots are coming for you: The binge-and-purge reinforcement schedule
Are sex robots a safe outlet for unhealthy urges, or do they make the problem worse?
Intimacy as healing and activism: Averting authoritarianism abed
Sexual liberation nurtures political liberation.
Intimacy as healing and activism: Bonkerballs bedroom backlash
The importance of reality-testing our gender roles.
Intimacy as healing and activism: Cuddle control conditioning
Why we're starved for intimacy, and what can be done about it.
The feminist future of straight sex: After the "male loneliness epidemic"
Patriarchy discourages men from seeking the sexual pleasure that's in their power to claim.