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the ethics of a compelling violence prevention talk 26 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
The semester has begun, and with it the long series of talks I give to groups of students about topics from alcohol to sleep to relational aggression to sexual assault. I’m good at this part of my jo...
why are there so many virgin romance novel heroines? hypothesis: because neuroscience. 3 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
I’ve got a theory about why there are so many virgin heroines in romance novels, and it has to do with the neuroscience of novelty. It’s easy to dismiss the abundance of virgins, putting it down to s...
3 big problems (and 1 awesome thing) in huffpo’s article about women’s orgasm 31 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm
I don’t often do things like this, but sometimes a mainstream media thing gets SO many things SO wrong that I can’t not correct it. HuffPo UK has an article today called National Orgasm Day: Experts ...
what if “the latest science” isn’t what you need to read about? 26 Jul 2013 | 08:25 am
I’m at a Green Dot training in anticipation of adapting it to my campus as part of our compliance with the Camps SaVE Act. I chose Green Dot for a variety of a reasons, not least the “Zero Personal G...
what ecology taught me about writing about sex science 18 Jul 2013 | 04:10 am
I’ve been getting feedback from beta readers about the first chapter of the book, and here is the forehead-smacking moment of “duh” that I’ve just had as a result: Science is an island species, like ...
did you have sex on 9/11? would you tell me about it? 12 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
I have talked with a lot of people who’ve told me about their 9/11 sex experiences. “What the hell?” they ask. “Why did I want sex in the middle of the nightmare?” “Because: attachment,” I say. I’ll ...
Iggy Pop, the rat nucleus accumbens, and your excellent sex life 5 Jul 2013 | 04:11 pm
You guys, chapter 3 is my nemesis. Chapter 3 is about the role of context in sexual desire and arousal, and it requires an awful lot of stuff about stress, attachment, and the mesolimbic cortex. I’m...
Review: “What Do Women Want?” 3 Jul 2013 | 05:54 am
This is probably the oddest possible review of a book about the science of women’s sexuality, coming, as it does, from someone who is currently writing a book about the science of women’s sexuality – ...
and then a book deal happened… 23 Jun 2013 | 03:37 pm
Back in December, you may recall, I wrote a first draft of a book. Half a draft, really. And then I converted that into a book proposal, which I sent out, and within about 10 days somehow I got this ...
monogamy is like math. desire is like dinner. 11 Jun 2013 | 12:16 am
Look. Who’s worse at monogamy, men or women? *sigh* You can only make a question like that MEAN something if you think there’s some inherent THING that is “men and monogamy” and “women and monogamy” a...
