Posts Tagged ‘culture’

When Sex Doesn’t Sell

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Blog

The cliché that sex sells is so common that many of us don’t even think about it anymore. Sexy images are used to attract attention and convince us that we can buy something and either be more sexy or be attractive to the scantily clad person (usually, but not always a woman) in the ad. [...]



SFPD Chief Want to Shame Sexwork Clients

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog

SFPD Chief Gascón

San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón is reported to have suggested putting mugshots of men arrested for paying for sex on a web site to shame them in order to discourage other men from doing the same. The use of shame to try to control sexual behavior has a long history and no [...]



we need some porn research

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog

I’ve been inspired lately and I’ve been reading a lot of articles and blogs about porn. The first thing that I have to say is that many of them seem to be written by people with very little actual information about the industry. I’ve been with Good Vibrations for 12 years now, and I’ve learned [...]