A few weeks ago, after discovering that I’d be contributing to MSP, my mom came home with an odd surprise for me. She handed me a small blue cardboard box that boasted the title Urifemme. When I read the description on the box, biodegradable disposable urination funnel for women, I was a bit confused. My mom then explained to me that it is a device that allows women to urinate while standing up in order to avoid sitting on dirty toilet seats.
As soon as I saw them, I realized that they may also provide an easy bathroom experience for transmen. A device like this could allow pre-op transmen (and other people with nontraditional gender identities) to easily urinate at a urinal in the men’s room, as opposed to having to pick a stall and sit down. Although the product is being marketed towards cis-women (as shown in the advertisement here), it can really be used by anyone.
Talk about shaking up perceptions of gender...check out this picture that came with the instructions!
The product itself is a piece of white cardboard about the size and shape of an ice-cream cone. According to the directions, you are supposed to “place contoured cone firmly against genital region in front of urinary opening, stand facing the toilet, and empty bladder normally”. An opening at the end of the cone allows for a very, well, “male” bathroom experience.
What do you guys think? Feminine hygiene product or innovation in the world of gender identity?
It’s that time of year again which means school is back in session for most college kids. And with STI rates on the rise amongst the youth of America it is more important than ever to make condoms easily available.
Every year The Great American Condom Campaign (GACC) provides 1,000,000 Trojan brand condoms to college students around the country. Applications are open to be one of the 2,000 Safe Sites that receives and distributes these condoms. Read about the program and apply here. But hurry because applications close September 6th! Sites will be picked in early October.
If you don’t get picked, try contacting your local Planned Parenthood who may be willing to donate condoms for you to distribute.
Someone sent me this pie chart yesterday about what Meatloaf would do for love (thanks, C!) and it made me smile. I searched and found it on the Interwebs right here.
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Not everyone who wears leather pants is into BDSM, and not everyone who is into BDSM wears leather pants. Unfortunately there are cases where the mainstream or popular media confuses BDSM and fashion. I encountered two specific articles recently that have troubled me quite a bit. One was from the August issue of Cosmopolitan magazine and the other was a movie review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo from the New York Times.
Korin Miller’s Cosmopolitan article Whips, Chains, Cages. . . Whoa says “Incorporating S&M into fashion is one way for us to show we’re badass without venturing too far into taboo territory.” Manohla Dargis’ movie review describes the protagonist from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, as “. . . a geek girl for starters, a computer hacker who would have downloaded this flick before it even hit theaters, and whose fetish wear and shiny boots suggest that she’s into BDSM, as they say in bondage, discipline and sadomasochism circles.” Both statements seem to be making the mistake of assuming that BDSM is mainly about the clothes people wear or the accessories people use. (more…)
Recently, my partner was on a business trip to Tyler, Texas. On his way back home, he was sitting in the Tyler airport and tried to log on to MySexProfessor.com. But oops! He couldn’t. Because apparently MSP “violates the City of Tyler Internet Usage Policy”. What? That’s right: the “reason for restriction”, as you may be able to see in the image, is because we got mis-classified into the “forbidden category” of pornography. We aren’t even a porn site!
It used to be that Internet filters commonly blocked even sexual health sites, such as web sites related to breast health or breast cancer. However, as technology has advanced, this is less often the case. And yet, sexual health sites and sex blogs are often blocked on purpose. A year or two ago, I was trying to get some work done over a bowl of a tomato basil soup I liked at a Cosi in Washington DC. I was all settled in to work when I found I couldn’t get on a variety of sex sites including MSP, The Kinsey Institute’s site and those of various woman-run sex toy shops. Which, you can imagine, severely limited my work plans for my lunch hour.
It’s too bad that it’s a blanket rule, that all sex sites get blocked using some filters, because many sex sites, like ours, provide quality information about sexual health and well-being in addition to pleasure. But I guess everything is indeed bigger in Texas, including the Internet sex filters.
Tonight, at dinner with old and new friends, I realized that I was the only person (out of 7!) who had seen The Dildo Diaries. This astonished me. Has this gem not made it out to the rest of the world?!?! WTF?!?! It’s incredible what you can learn about dildos vs. educational devices, sodomy and more, but you MUST WATCH THE WHOLE THING. The trailer is only a nice tease. The state discussion that begins around 4:30 is priceless.
Like, about anal sex, how it was to become (at the time) a Class C misdemeanor:
“Even if they’re married.”
“Most especially if they’re married.”
“Even if they slip. Even if they slip. Is that right?”
And then this…
“Say my husband and I were having intercourse and he slipped. And it touched my anus. Do I need to go turn myself into some health official?”
“I would suggest you see a doctor…”
Sex educators and activists and people who love sex toy humor and crazy crazy talk, you can buy it here.
As you can imagine, I was so excited when I turned around the trail bend and found this amazing tree! It’s located along Mait’s Rest Rainforest Walk, near the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.
All things are lawful there, that may delight
Nature or unrestrained appetite ;
Like and enjoy, to will and act is one :
We only sin when Love’s rites are not done.
-Thomas Carew “A Rapture”
“Who is this woman?” I thought to myself two years ago when Nancy Peach took me by the arm and spoke as if we had known each other for years even though we had just met moments ago. Her paintings were bigger than I stood and they burst off the walls with luscious colors full of unashamed women proudly displaying their own power sexuality. Sometimes they even looked you right in the eye. It’s immediately apparent that Nancy allows herself to be continually awed by human sexuality and with her paints, her brushes, and her canvases (some even as large as 15 x 10 feet!) she takes you along for a wild ride of desire, attraction, and passion. NSFW artistic images located below the cut. (more…)
I love this image of men and women in Russia racing in the water on top of inflatable sex dolls as part of the Bubble Baba Challenge. If only one of them had been racing the new inflatable Obama sex doll, unveiled in Asia.
How erotic is the art of belly dance? Is it used for seduction, or is it instead an expressive medium for the dancer’s emotions and aesthetics? Or can it be both?
Thanks to Wikimedia for the image.
Dancers from Bloomington, Indiana interviewed in Bloom magazine (link to the article as pdf) argue that the dancer’s sexiness is a byproduct of being confident, graceful, and strong. The dance is sensual, but much of the sexiness is in the eye of the beholder…which, really, is the case with most aspects of sex appeal, isn’t it?
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Each member of my school’s sexual health education group was given a summer reading assignment. Mine was a lengthy one: The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex, by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans. Though I haven’t read the book in its entirety (come on guys, it’s long, and the book itself is HUGE), I have read [...]
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