The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health
Education. Pleasure. Health. Advocacy.
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Why is Sex Fun? by popular science writer Jared Diamond. Many people know Jared Diamond from his Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel—a virtuosic attempt at understanding the origin of human societies from an ecological and geographical perspective; far … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book She Shifters, a compilation of lesbian paranormal erotica edited by Delilah Devlin. She Shifters is a collection of quality short stories about women shapeshifters finding emotional and physical love. These tales span numerous settings, ethnicities, gender presentations, … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Guide to Sex and Safety by Jaclyn Friedman. In sex-negative American culture, shame, blame, and fear affect the sex lives of many women, wreaking havoc on one’s ability to enjoy sexuality in a happy, healthy way. While … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book The Kabbalah Book of Sex, by Yehuda Burg. While Kabbalah came into popular consciousness in the late 90s and early 2000’s as the musical artist Madonna engaged with the tradition, Kabbalah has existed for centuries as a mystical, spiritual approach associated with … [Read more...]
[Trigger Warnings for this film: sexual assault, implied incest, gun violence] Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are looking the film The Fish Child. This Argentine film was produced by Lucía Puenzo in 2009. Lucía Puenzo also directed XXY, a film centered on an intersex teen played by a main actress in The Fish Child, Inés … [Read more...]
Every Monday, the CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are looking at a film, Outrage. Produced by Kirby Dick, Outrage is a rather controversial documentary examining closeted politicians who support anti-gay legislation. As this film came out in 2009, a few mentioned specifics are now dated. The interesting question that this film poses can … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are looking at the 2011 documentary (A)sexual, directed by Angela Tucker, about the asexual community. Centering on the stories of several self-identified asexual individuals, the film focuses on the way in which activists like David Jay, the founder and leader and of the Asexuality Visibility … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the film Iron Jawed Angels, an HBO original movie that follows a few young suffragettes fighting for the right to vote in the 1910s. Iron Jawed Angels mostly focuses on Alice Paul, played by Hilary Swank, though other notable women include: Harriot Blatch, Lucy Burns, Carrie … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book The Passionate Torah, edited by Danya Ruttenberg. The approach to sexuality as discussed in Judaism is a fascinating one: while much sexism and sex-negativity exists, there is also room for loving, spiritual, and pleasurable experiences—in the context of marriage, of … [Read more...]
Every Monday, The CSPH takes a look at a book or film focusing on an aspect of sexuality. This week we are featuring the book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power by cultural and fashion historian Valerie Steele. Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power explores the link between fashion and the expression of sexuality—not only sexual behavior, but also gender identity. The 19th century sexologist … [Read more...]
