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Dr. Debby Herbenick
Dr. Debby Herbenick is a sex researcher at Indiana University, sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute, columnist, and author of five books about sex and love. Learn more about her work at www.sexualhealth.indiana.edu.
Recent posts
Bill Maher compares Mark Sanford’s love emails and Mark Foley’s texts
Bill Maher recently showed a side-by-side comparison of Gov. Mark Sanford’s emails to his Argentine lover and former Congressman Mark Foley’s texts to his pages. No matter what your opinions are on monogamy, marriage, politics, adultery, falling in love (like, or lust) with one person while being with another, sexual orientation, or verbal seduction, you can perhaps at least appreciate the humor in the following contrasts: Continue Reading →
Listen to me on Blog Talk Radio tonight at 10pm EST!
Host Alan Roger Currie and I will be talking about sex education in America and all kinds of other things about sex (including my new book, Because It Feels Good) from 10:00 to 11:30pm EST tonight. Alan’s show is a call-in show so please take the time to call in to say hi, ask sex questions or share your perspective on sex in America. Learn more about the show on the radio show’s web site. Continue Reading →
Living vicariously through a Kink.com porn party-goer
Someone I know recently attended a Kink.com party in San Francisco. Being a curious person, and having curious readers, I asked a few questions about the experience. Here’s what he had to say. Continue Reading →
Planarian Worms look like penises
At least in this drawing by “Weird Bug Lady” they do. Continue Reading →
Accidental 5th Grade Teacher Sex Tape
According to this news report, a 5th grade teacher in California recently sent her students home with a DVD of film clips/pictures from their class’ school year. However, one of the clips was (accidentally) spliced in with a 6 second visual of her masturbating. Continue Reading →
How to make Open Relationships Work
In most cultures, people claim to practice monogamy. Lifetime monogamy (being involved with only one person for one’s entire life) is rare. Serial monogamy (having a series of exclusive relationships over one’s life) is more common. And while we talk an awful lot in our culture about cheating – that is, having sex with people outside of monogamous relationships – we talk a whole lot less about open relationships or polyamory, the practice of having “many lovers”. That doesn’t mean that men and women aren’t having open relationships, though – it just means many people are silent about them. Continue Reading →
Should sex education include information about pleasure and orgasm?
The dilemmas of how to talk to adolescents about sex plague many a parent and politician. Continue Reading →
Flexible rubber cement heals baby Jesus’ penis?
So says this European commerical. It is European, right? Because we don’t seem to show these things in the U.S.. except on the internet. (Thanks, B., for the heads up.) Continue Reading →
Glamour explores the “taboo trick” of vibrators
In an issue of Glamour magazine that’s just hit mailboxes and newsstands everywhere, Jen Matlack wrote about how more than half of women aged 18 to 60 in the United States (based on a study we conducted at the Center for Sexual Health Promotion) have used a vibrator alone or with a partner. But that’s not all… Continue Reading →