by Jason Stotts
1. Sex by Numbers – an interesting look into the growing polyamory movement. The article is well written and seems well researched. It’s worth a read if you’re interested in learning a little more about polyamory.
Over the past decade, polyamory has gone from being a fringe trend to a bona fide scene to a relationship model that’s widespread enough to almost be socially acceptable. The scene has its own canon, which includes texts like The Ethical Slut and Christopher Ryan’s Sex at Dawn (co-authored with his partner, Cacilda Jetha). Plus it’s got celebrities like alt-weekly sex columnist Dan Savage, who coined the word “monogamish” and turned open relationships into a cause célèbre.
2. Yes, Chick-fil-A Says, We Explicitly Do Not Like Same-Sex Couples – apparently Chic-fil-A hates the gays. I’m not totally surprised to find this out about a restaurant that isn’t open on Sundays because of their religious text.
3. Siri Failures, Illustrated – Siri just might be a sexist and hate abortion.
4. The Horror of South Africa’s ‘Corrective Rape’ – Apparently South Africa has a problem where lesbians are being raped in order to help correct their aberrant sexuality. The premise being, of course, that one you give a lesbian a taste of dick, then she could never go back to women. I’m sure this works about as well as “praying away the gay”.
5. Erotic Goods Find Their Way into Shopping Centres – in the Czech Republic some regular shopping centers are now carrying adult toys and products. I wholly support this. Making sex toys something normal, instead of something shameful that you have to go to a seedy part of town to buy, would go a long way to reducing people’s shame around them. Let’s hope that this trend reaches the States soon.
6. The Psychology of Nakedness – this study is just swimming in philosophical problems, but the underlying finding is interesting nonetheless. Apparently, we view and treat people differently depending on the way they’re dressed and how much skin is showing.