LADY GODIVA: The Naked Truth

One of the new trends on Instagram is posting a selfie of you and your lover post-coitus with the hash-tag #aftersex. Had you been unaware of this phenomena previously, most likely, as well as understandably,  your initial  reaction may be one of shock and disbelief at first.  Albeit after looking at a few examples, it's actually very touching.  Everything from the more tender moments of young or true love to humorous displays of affection, it is, a uniquely human face on sex that can't be denied: Maybe it's because I've only been exposed to a smaller tamer portion of the #aftersex selfie but overall, it seems to be very artful.  Part of the human experience is investigation and creativity.  This appears to just be an extension of those traits we already possess, behaviors we already do (after-all if not for an act of sex, none of us would even be here), and a vehicle of shared experiences and expressions that had it not been for curr

Belle Knox is running the media circuit and while on The View  she admitted to Barbara Walters   that she began watching porn at age 12.   With that admission, people should start to discredit a teenager that claims she's doing this as a prevention against the loss of her sexual autonomy instead of it merely being a non-conventional way to pay costly college tuition, as she's also claimed as being what spurred her to pursue this 'profession'.  If you've read my post on Linda Lovelace   you will see that Knox is subscribing herself to predatory patriarchal capitalism and has been effectively brainwashed into deluding herself that she's living out a sexual fantasy of her own instead of being groomed to live out a kyriarchal fantasy that was imposed upon her delicate psyche from unchecked externalities.   Knox also said on The View "... in porn, I’m in a safe, controlled environment where I set the boundaries, I set the rules,"  but that is a blatan

Over two decades ago The National Institute of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act of 1993  was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton, supposedly setting the stage for major advances in women’s health by requiring that all NIH-funded medical research include women and minorities. Yet despite the expanded mandate, disparities still remain.   The Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated, for the first time, the inclusion of women and  minorities in research funded by The National Institutes of Health. Before then, medical researches --working on every scientific stage from early discovery to clinical trials--were  encouraged to include women but, as it was never enforced, rarely did. Male mice were  almost exclusively used in laboratory experiments. The now notorious "baby aspirin study",  which found that taking a baby aspirin a day helps prevent heart attacks, was found to  be conducted entirely on men and in application?-- the women taking aspirin had a

This weekend I stumbled upon a 2008 documentary by  filmmakers,   teacher & scholar,   Dr.  Chyng Sun, Ph.D , Miguel Picker, and  Robert Wosnitzer ,  'The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, & Relationships'.        While the entire film is definitely worth a thoughtful review and is certainly not for everyone (for instance my domestic partner clamored for it to be shut off almost immediately after pressing play) and even its trailer comes with a disclaimer of: "This trailer contains scenes of sexual activity and aggression from pornographic videos."   (So it is really important to mentally prepare yourself prior to watching it, definitely don't watch it at work or with unprepared impressionable youth around, and if your TV/monitor is view-able at street level, you'd be wise to close the curtains).   Unfortunately due to time constraints I am personally unable to dissect the entire film, which is good, it's up to the viewer to do th