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For the most part, sexuality research focuses its energy on issues pertaining to health and disease/pregnancy prevention, social welfare and policy making. And though all of these issues are of great importance, we sometimes forget the other, more pleasing (and pleasurable!) side of sexuality—good, old-fashioned sex! Sexual activity has taken on many misnomers over the years, with presidential exploits and exposed celebrities causing their fair share of sexual moral panics. But it’s time we turned some attention back to what got us all here in the first place!

Straight, Single, Sixty ... and Dating

Straight, Single, Sixty ... and Dating

Snapshots from real life Fernando* plunks down next to Annie* at McDonalds. He’s fifty-nine. She’s seventy, but you’d never know it, he thinks. Nice body. Big breasts. Ample butt. Pretty face. Super funny and wholly confident. You’ve got to love those older women! Three dates, three long kisses, and tonight’s the

Viagra, Erections... and Vulnerability

Viagra, Erections... and Vulnerability

If you want to get a good sense of where we stand as a society when it comes to aging, sexuality, and manhood, think about those erectile dysfunction ads. They feature men singing and dancing in the streets, others strumming "Viva Viagra" on their guitars, and handsome straight couples in side-by-side tubs with twinkles in their eyes. Over ten

How are your orgasms, Mom?

How are your orgasms, Mom?

From birth to death, we are all sexual beings. We have a hard enough time acknowledging this when it comes to children, but when it comes to aging adults, the silence is deafening.

Snap!shots: 2009 Frameline Film Reviews

We sent NSRC staff to watch selections from the Frameline Film Festival on the big screen (it's a tough job...). Here are our favorites...

Lessons from a Mexican Brothel

Lessons from a Mexican Brothel

On a chilly March morning, my friend Abraham and I head out by car from Washington, D.C. to rural Virginia to do some exploring. Visiting from Mexico City, Abraham has been to New York City many times. But large cities can give a visitor the wrong idea about a nation and I’m taking Abraham to see another side of America. We drive the curving

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Getting It on With Bonnie ...Sexy Mamas

Shout out to all moms: it's time to celebrate you. How about having fun with the family and then taking time out to get back in touch with your sexier self? Bonnie interviews Anne Semans, author of Sexy Mamas: Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Raising Kids.

Strategies for Staying Sexual After Menopause

Strategies for Staying Sexual After Menopause

When was the last time you heard a joke suggesting that sex invariably goes ever downhill or totally crashes after menopause? Like yesterday? This concept was boldly reaffirmed—without reference to reliable research—at a conference on menopause held by the National Institutes of Health in 2005! So, if you ask your doctor about sex

The Joy of Sex: Where Have All the Hairy Men Gone?

The Joy of Sex: Where Have All the Hairy Men Gone?

The new ultimate revised edition of The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort is finally here, thirty-seven years later. Here’s a review from The Washington Post. The reviewer is a woman who was not around for the first The Joy of Sex. Though she gives comparison of the new and old edition fair treatment, she can’t possibly

Second Life: Complaints Spark Creation of 'Red-Light District'

Second Life: Complaints Spark Creation of 'Red-Light District'

You walk into a dimly lit lounge with posh bar stools and leather couches. The bar doesn’t seem that busy yet, but you know it’s still early. There’s a couple at the bar sipping on martinis and sharing a private joke.

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

“It doesn’t look right,” said forty-two-year-old Carla Westman*. “Like I’m uneven, like one side is larger than the other and as I’ve gotten older, I think one side is stretching.  Before I could close my legs and you couldn’t see anything but now one side peeks through just a tiny bit more than the