Category Archives: body image

the garden

Posted on 03/29/2012 by

Can I tell you guys about this metaphor I’ve been building with a student? I think it’s pretty useful. It’s like this: Think of your mind as a garden. When you’re born, you’ve got this space, this rich and fertile … Continue reading →

Posted in body image, emily, relationships | 9 Comments

I ♥ my…

Posted on 02/23/2012 by

On Valentine’s Day, the Peer Sex Educators had a “Love Your Body” table at the campus center. One of the fun things they did was have people write on a white board what they loved about their bodies. Slide show … Continue reading →

Posted in anatomy, body image | 7 Comments

more variation on objectification

Posted on 12/06/2011 by

My cousin has discovered that my Facebook page is a handy repository for all the interesting sexuality-related stuff he reads on the internet, and since his actual job involves the internet, he reads a lot of stuff. One example from … Continue reading →

Posted in body image, sciencey goodness | 4 Comments

what are the sex books

Posted on 11/03/2011 by

Arrite people. I’m now listening to Michael Pollen’s In Defense of Food: an eater’s manifesto, and it constitutes the fifth book I’ve read that says that really it’s the refined carbohydrates – flour and sugar, basically – that cause heart … Continue reading →

Posted in body image, sciencey goodness, sexual politics | 36 Comments

“apologetically but insistently”

Posted on 10/31/2011 by

(conversation about consent below; proceed (or not) accordingly.) I’ve been listening to Bill Bryson’s “Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,” and I must say that hearing a boy’s-eye point of view on sex is amazing to me. Boys in … Continue reading →

Posted in body image, sexual politics | 37 Comments