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 Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. “Having no fat means having no breasts, thighs, hips, or ass, which for once means not having asked for it.” -The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf is an important figure in the third wave feminist movement and currently runs a blog … [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 second edition (2012) of America’s War on Sex by Dr. Marty Klein. Dr. Klein has previously written sexual guide books on sexual intelligence, and maintains a lovely blog. America’s War on Sex won the yearly title of being the “Best Sexuality Book” by AASECT, and … [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 “Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Pegging”. In this film, feminist, author, educator, and activist Tristan Taormino covers many aspects of “this often misunderstood, yet incredibly sensual activity for couples in her legendary anal sex workshop”, the activity being … [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 2004 short documentary “Busting Out” directed by Francine Strickwerda and Laurel Spellman. Strickwerda narrates the hour-long piece, which begins with the story of how she lost her mother to breast cancer as a child. She describes how she was the first female in her … [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, Tomboy. Céline Sciamma directed this 2011 French film focused on a 10-year-old beginning to explore gender. While the child presents in a stereotypically masculine way, the viewer is neither given a name nor are gendered pronouns used with the main character for the … [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 Paul Joannides' The Guide to Getting It On, a straightforward, fun, and easy-to-read manual on sexual behavior, anatomy, and expression, currently published in its sixth edition. Paul Joannides is an author, researcher, radio host, and sex therapist as well as a member of the … [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 “Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project” directed by Tobi Hill-Meyer, winner of the emerging filmmaker award at the 2010 Feminist Porn Awards. Featuring several different performers—all self-identified trans women—and their partners of various genders, the film … [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 Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio. The word cunt is instantly controversial: is it sexy, edgy, or a vile and insulting curse? It is a word that evokes all manner of emotions and ideas about what it means to be a woman or have a vagina in a society that doesn’t … [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 documentary, Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (2003) by Human Rights Watch. “If I were to tell you who I am, then I’d be digging my own grave.” – Anonymous Offering an excellent portrayal of the vast atrocities committed against the human rights … [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 Phone Sex: Aural Thrills and Oral Skills by Miranda Austin. Austin’s book is a very amusing, if messy, account of being a phone sex operator. She tended to receive male-identifying customers: some innocent, some experienced, some kinky, and some vanilla. While working, Austin … [Read more...]
