Jealousy is a problem that irks many a relationship. It’s possible to be jealous of many different kinds of people or things, to be jealous of people who have what you want, or are with who you want to be with. You can be envious or someone for being the kind of person you’re not. […]
Relationships
Asking for Sex vs. Asking about Sex
Wow. This is humbling. Just now, I created a tag called “sex ed learning moments” for precisely this kind of post, wherein I admit that learning to be a sex educator is a lifelong process, and I just caught myself doing something that I need to change. Or in this case, my husband caught me […]
Letting Jealousy Be Your Guide
One of the things I love doing as a sex educator (and an educator in general) is discovering parallels between different modes of communication and models for seeing the world. Sometimes this leads to me pointing out funny reversals in sexism, and sometimes it takes the form of applying ideas from gender studies to folklore […]