Posts Tagged ‘sex-positvity’

What Tiger Woods Can Tell Us About Sex Addiction

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Dec 28th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Unless you’ve been avoiding the news lately, you’re probably aware that Tiger Woods is in the middle of the latest celebrity sex scandal. And I think that the media kerfulffle over this has a lot to tell us about what we think about sex.
The first thing that strikes me about this situation is that we [...]



Sex-Positivity and Judgment

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: Blog

Let me start by coming out and saying something up front: I judge people. I judge events. I judge what I see happen around me.
There’s a myth among sex-positive folks that it’s a good thing to be non-judgmental. And while I appreciate the intention behind it, which is (usually) to create a safe space for [...]



Sex, Shame and Letting Go of “Should”

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog

I’m fascinated by the ways in which guilt and shame play out in our lives, especially our sexual lives. I don’t think there’s a sex educator out there who hasn’t had someone come to them with these feelings and, unfortunately, most of us don’t have much of an understanding of how these emotions work. It’s [...]



why sex-positivity is good for feminism

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog

I just ran across a blog about “Why Sex-Positivity is Bad for Feminism” and I’m astounded. Here’s my favorite snippet:
Of course, there are a lot of feminist issues involved in the porn industry, sex work, and in human sexuality; I just don’t think “sex positivity” is one of them. So you’re a feminist, and you [...]



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 [...]