by Laura Wershler | Feb 13, 2015 | Birth Control, Books, Film, Literature, Media, Sex, Studio Film, Virginity
Dear Readers: The following post first appeared on July 25, 2012, during the media think-piece flurry over the soaring popularity of E.L James’s Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. With the movie opening on Valentine’s Day, 2015, I can’t wait to find out...
by Laura Wershler | Jul 25, 2012 | Birth Control, Books, Literature, Menstruation, Sex, Virginity
SPOILER ALERT: Plot details in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy are revealed in this post. Fine literary fiction it is not, but the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James can certainly claim to be libido-boosting storytelling. Deirdre Donahue at USA Today...
by David Linton | Aug 18, 2011 | Anatomy, Law/Legal, Men, Sex, Virginity
The cultural taboo against male contact with menstrual blood can be traced all the way back to the Biblical book of Leviticus, and there have been various attempts to explain its origins, including the Freudian notion that male avoidance of menstrual blood stems from...
