NSRC: National Sexuality Resource Center

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What is sex and what is gender and what do these two things have to do with sexual literacy in America? Science has established the enormous variation that exists when it comes to genders, anatomies, sexualities and reproductive capacities, but American society still tries to label people according to very stringent definitions of male or female—and the results are often harmful. Why do we place such importance on gender, on notions of masculinity and femininity? And is there room for something more? Sexually literate approaches to sex and gender focus attention on the entire spectrum of variation and diversity, revealing a complicated and rich picture.

Professor Surfs for Porn: Notes on Being and Having a Bad Body

Xtube’s imperfect bodies wet with spit and ejaculate, splayed open and performing clumsily for the male gaze; the bodies of the Peruvian underclass violated, opened and drained of their contents; and Demi Moore’s hip.  Each of them was a piece of a disjointed cultural puzzle.

Zoot Suits hacen a el Hombre- y a la Mujer

El 11 de Junio de 1943, en medio de las revueltas “Zoot Suit”, el Los Ángeles Times reporto que tres pandilleras “Zoot Suit” habían atacado a la señorita Betty Morgan, una mesera, cerca del túnel de la Calle Tres en el centro de Los Ángeles.

Veil Ban Proposal Risks Alienating French Muslims

A French Parliamentary panel's proposal to ban some Muslim veils ignores women's agency and risks alienating French Muslims

Hairy Marvels and Beastly Sex

One afternoon in 1594, the scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi visited the home of a wealthy friend in Bologna in northern Italy. Among other visitors at the elegant home was Isabella Pallavicina, the Marchesa of Soragna. With the marchesa was Antonietta Gonzales, the young daughter of Petrus Gonzales. Like her father and like most of her sisters and

Zoot Suits Make the Man—and Woman

On June 11, 1943, in the midst of the Zoot Suit Riots, three “zoot suit gangsterettes” attacked Miss Betty Morgan, a waitress, near the Third Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles.

XX - Why?

Tell the IAAF to stay out of Caster Semenya's pants. Sign the XX-Why petition and tell them science and biology do not make-or unmake-a woman.

¿Que factores influyen en la salud sexual y reproductiva Latina?

Hallazgos de un estudio que examina la salud sexual y reproductiva en Latinos

Bros Before Hos: College Fraternities and Sexual Exploitation

In the late 1980s the Florida News Herald reported that a Florida State University student had been gang raped by some fraternity brothers. Allegedly, the attackers painted the Greek letters of their house on her thighs, symbolically claiming her as they had also claimed her through sexual assault. In 2001 Dartmouth College's campus newspaper,

Money, Marriage, and the Economic Downturn: Are Marital Storms Ahead?

The nation’s recent economic woes have led Americans to question many aspects of their lives that, until recently, they likely took for granted. Can they afford their homes? Will they have a job next week, let alone a secure retirement? Will their personal relationships, and especially their marriages, withstand the new pressures that