Recently, I spoke with Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals about her new book Exposure: A Sociologist Explores Sex, Society, and Adult Entertainment. During our conversation we happened upon the subject of reading and analyzing adult content the way you would any text or cultural object, and commented […]
Last week, I conversed with a few performers and educators in the adult industry about their lives, their hobbies, knitting, dogs, and the apocalypse. Each chat was pleasant and jovial; I left those imaginary Skype boardrooms thinking I’d made a new friend, or at least […]
Earlier this month, legislators in two states in the US, Kansas and Arkansas, set the clock of progress in equality rolling backwards by passing laws that once more make it legal to discriminate against the LGBT community. In Kansas, this philosophical and socio-political regression was […]
The HSBC scandal – involving wide scale tax evasion and money laundering, among other activities – is yet another example of how large, powerful institutions have come to believe that they can do whatever they like, regardless of the law, and can act unethically with […]
I’m not one to partake in pot use. From what I can glean from my friends and colleagues who do indulge, all it does is submerge you in giggly, murky, only slightly psychedelic oblivion, plus make every next Cheeto more delicious than the last. Doesn’t […]
Why can’t you be more normal? I’ve heard that many a time. You’ve probably heard it yourself. Society functions around a set of unwritten rules based on a concept of the correct way to do things. But what is normal? And who defines it? The […]
Recently, Maclean’s ran an article ruminating on the dumbing down of the United States. According to multiple studies, deftly shoved together by writer Jonathon Gatehouse in the piece, one of the most powerful nations is dropping in intelligence, and not just in the cut and […]
