Category Archives: Research
Ultrahedonist, personal shopper
This week I moved into a sweet new apartment, all by myself. Friends, my new bedroom features both a bay window and a light switch in the form of a tasseled rope hanging over the bed. I envisage many happy … Continue reading
Filed under In the news, Research
An untimely and fairly detailed account of my visit to Melbourne Sexpo
Last Sunday year I went to the 2011 Club X Sexpo, a “sexuality lifestyle expo” held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. I would like to claim that it has taken me this long to finalise my post about it because … Continue reading
Mrs Coolidge and me
There’s a story about President Calvin Coolidge that every evolutionary psychologist knows by heart. It goes like this: The president and his wife were visiting a commercial chicken farm in the 1920s. During the tour, the first lady asked the … Continue reading
Filed under In the news, Introspection, Literature, Research
Always with the gagging: a response to Cordelia Fine (Part 2)
Hello! It’s time for the second two-thirds of my rather extensive thoughts on Cordelia Fine’s essay The Porn Ultimatum. We’ll begin gently with a recap. In Part 1 I used 1,500 words and a mostly gratuitous oral sex story to … Continue reading
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Always with the gagging: a response to Cordelia Fine (Part 1)
Another day, another post substantially devoted to the sexual act of gagging on cock. I swear I’m not doing it deliberately. Cordelia Fine is really smart and she thinks you shouldn’t be watching that Early last year, reading The Age, … Continue reading
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OMG TEEN SEXTING!!! Part 2
Oh hey! Since we’ve had more than a fortnight to assimilate the revelations contained in Part 1, I think it’s high time that we resume our investigation of teen sexting! Before we go on, and because it’s been a while, … Continue reading
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The news in numbers 1: Female gazing
Released, this week, from my usual 9 to 5 toil, I’ve had time to devote myself to something far less consequential: an investigation into the abundance or otherwise of hawt men in the Australian online media landscape! Today, I am … Continue reading
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TBSASS 2: Won’t somebody think of the children?
Hello! Welcome to the second instalment of The Best Studies are Sex Studies, wherein I read an entire journal article or report on sex stuff, and pass on the interesting bits to you… Right at this moment, I’m at a … Continue reading
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The best studies are sex studies 1: Lives and voices of highly sexual women
This post is the first in a series I’m going to do looking at some study or other that I’ve come across. I can’t promise timeliness – today’s study is close to a decade old – but I will actually … Continue reading
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