By Jeremy Martin-Weber I find this woman… sexy. I know sexy is totally in the eye of the beholder, you don’t have to find her sexy, that’s ok, I do. Mostly though, I’m in love with her. So much of society’s messaging is that men are controlled by their sexual urges and only see skin…
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World Sleep Day 2016, or Why Did I Get Up Today?
“Good Sleep Is a Reachable Dream” – the slogan for World Sleep Day 2016 Apparently it’s World Sleep Day, which I knew nothing about until I was checking out the news this morning. World Sleep Day is funny. It sounds like we should all sleep the day away. But then the whole thing wouldn’t get much…
How My Son Suffers Because of Rape Culture
by Anonymous I wasn’t prepared. I wasn’t prepared as a mother for the insidious impacts of rape culture on my son. I was prepared for its impacts on my daughter. I knew all about them. I lived them. But, my son? A privileged white boy? I was prepared to counteract the privilege. I was prepared…
Teaching What it Means to Be a Man. Or Woman.
We were recently invited to have a conversation with a bunch of 6th and 7th graders about what it means to be a man or a woman, including answering any questions they had about sex. After balking at the idea, and bringing up all the reasons we weren’t qualified to guide such a talk, only…
Of Teenage Dreams and Towel Pics
Our Storyteller (13) had a dream that she shared with us just a couple weeks ago at breakfast. She was clearly perturbed by it, and being a verbal processor, she really needed to share it with us. In her dream she was in our house, sleeping in her room in the basement, when she woke…
I Am Man
I am man. So hide your goods or I may decide that they are mine. That’s right, I mean your breasts. Hide them. Because if I catch a glimpse of them, who knows what I will do? I am a sexual Hulk, the monster lurks inside me, and once aroused who knows what devastation it…