BDSM and Fetishism: Finally off the “Sick List”
Consensual sexual practices should not be medicalized. In fact, the medicalization of consensual sexual practices and sexual identities is an affront to human rights and sexual liberation, one that echoes a disturbing history that includes the categorization of “homosexuality” as…
Centering Sexual Freedom on Human Rights Day
Happy Human Rights Day! Today marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , a document that identified the inalienable rights to which everyone is inherently entitled as a human being -- regardless of race, religion, sex, language,…
Woodhull Speaks Out on BDSM Court Decision
The federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia recently ruled that American’s have no constitutional right to engage in consensual BDSM activity. The decision in Doe v. George Mason University, et. al, should be a clarion call for advocates of…
Even Moms Get Kinky. Even Dommes Get Sick.
Today marks three years since my mother's death, and I want to remember her by sharing with you a piece I read at BedPost Confessions at Woodhull's Sexual Freedom Summit this past August in Alexandria, VA. It is adapted from a chapter…
Will Flibanserin Bring Focus to Female Sexuality?
Throughout history, female sexuality has rarely been taken seriously. It’s almost always compared to male sexuality—or worse, claimed to be in existence only to satisfy men’s sexual desire. We’ve come a long way from Freudian years. However, the creation of…
Injustice In Iowa: Pleasure, Danger, and Dementia
You know that I’m working on a book about sexuality, aging, illness, and dying, and that it’s a mother-daughter memoir, and so you know that issues about parents’ sexuality and the care that hospitals and nursing homes afford them are…
Oregon Legislators Say “No Toys For Teens”
Looking for a court challenge to obscenity laws? Try Oregon, where the laws regarding exposing minors to obscenity are already so broad as to be hard to fit within the bounds of the constitution. How bad are the current laws?…