The Lusty Lady, the nation’s only employee-owned, unionized strip club, is in financial trouble and in danger of closing down. The SF Chronicle reports that the club, which makes an effort to employ “diverse body types and ethnically diverse dancers” has come across hard times due to the recession and internet porn. Now it’s looking [...]
Archive for the ‘Sexuality’ Category
SF’s Lusty Lady model of sex-positive feminism worth saving?
Posted in Sexuality on May 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Jean Paul Gaultier show at the de Young is creepy and fascinating
Posted in Sexuality, tagged corset, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madonna on April 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I found myself in Golden Gate Park with an hour of time to kill, and I wandered into the de Young. The current show is about Jean Paul Gaultier, and though the subject didn’t interest me, I so rarely get to museums these days that I bought a ticket. Going to this exhibition [...]
M & Ms: sex symbols for kids?
Posted in Sexuality, Toys & products, Worst stereotyping *SSS* on April 4, 2012 | 24 Comments »
To anyone who thinks this S & M-M & M is outdated because it’s from a few years back: Here is Ms. Brown on back cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue: To anyone who thinks that I just have a dirty mind and there’s nothing sexualized about M & Ms for God’s sake, [...]
Peggy Orenstein on the difference between sexuality and sexualization
Posted in Sexuality, tagged Peggy Orenstein, Sexuality, sexualization of girls on February 29, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Last week, I went to a reading by Peggy Orenstein from her book Cinderella Ate My Daughter, now out in paperback. I’m such a huge Orenstein fan and I’ve written so much about her on this blog, that I wondered if after I saw her read, I would have anything left to blog about. Guess [...]
Kids media and slut-shaming
Posted in Health, Movies, Sexuality on February 19, 2012 | 9 Comments »
To the various commenters upset about previous “slut-shaming” in my critiques of kids’ media, I think adults should express their sexuality how they please. (I have written more about the what I think about the issue of short skirts and their empowering potential here.) As far as media or toys geared towards little kids, I am [...]
New statements from McQueary and Sandusky continue to reveal baffling disconnect
Posted in Sexuality, Sports, tagged Paterno, Penn State, Sandusky on November 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m not into college football. I’ve never snapped towels in the shower. But I continue to be blown away by the distorted reality of this subculture. The email McQueary sent to a friend — obtained by the Associated Press, reads as follows: “You are the first person I have told this … and I don’t [...]
Citadel’s disclosure of sex abuse shows Penn State ripple effect
Posted in Politics, Sexuality, tagged citadel, Penn State on November 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
What if every time sex abuse was discovered it got reported to police? What if people stopped reacting to it as a “private” matter? What if that reaction included other sex crimes, rape and domestic abuse? How much progress could be made towards actually making a dent in stopping these secret crimes? On Saturday, the [...]
‘Not a single onesie in all of humankind had a little girl and an airplane on it’
Posted in Body image, Cool and radical girls, Education, Health, Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Achilles Effect, Animal Planet, Butterfly Effect, Collective Shout, Crystal Smith, Diego, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Jackson Katz, Mamafesto, Melissa Wardy, Operation Transformation, Peggy Orenstein, Pigtail Pals, Pink Stinks, Princess Free Zone, SciGirls, Scooby-Doo, Shaping Youth, SPARK summit, Wild Kratts, Word World on October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
After JCPenney’s “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother had to do it for me,” shirt for girls incited a protest that went viral, Pigtail Pals, a site that creates clothing empowering to girls, put out a best-selling shirt that reads “Pretty’s got nothing to do with it.” Now Reel Girl talks [...]
Who gets to be sexy?
Posted in Media, Sexuality, tagged Amanda Marcotte, Lisa belkin on September 6, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Last week, New York Times reporter and Motherlode blogger Lisa Belkin posted about Duke University’s sexist frat party invites which asked women to show up dressed slutty. Just as troubling as the actual invite, Belkin writes, was that women did, in fact, show up dressed slutty. Belkin writes that a generation ago, women were leading [...]
Critics have sweet tooth for Sugar In My Bowl
Posted in Books, Cool and radical girls, Margot Magowan/ ReelGirl, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Erica Jong, Margot Magowan, Sugar In My Bowl on August 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Critics love the new book Sugar In My Bowl. The anthology came out this summer, is edited by Erica Jong, and includes my short story “Light Me Up.” If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, you can order it here. Here are some blurbs: “[A] fierce, fearless collection.” — More Magazine “The women of this collection [...]
