Sex & Gender articles
Illustration by Javier Jaén
PHOTO CREDIT: PUPROCKIT
Clitoral Enlargement Surgery is Growing, BuzzFeed News, April 7, 2023
Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez
I Attended Submissive School for a Day: Here’s What I Learned, BuzzFeed News, March 18, 2023
Illustration by Rob Dobi
This Sex Expert Teaches Couples How to Peg Each Other, Men’s Health, Feb. 17, 2023.
Photo Courtesy of Peggin Tha Stallion.
PHOTO BY ANNA SHVETS VIA PEXELS
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Unbound, Dame, Hello Cake, and Crave.
Picture of Gail Foreman, Booker High School Teacher, Sarasota, FL by Zack Wittman
“He May Pick You Up for a Ride”
What happens when Marjorie Taylor Greene tells a Georgia town you’re a predator, Slate, October 20, 2022.
Picture courtesy of Oliver
Women Are Sharing Stories About Sex With Celebrities, BuzzFeed News, November 16, 2021
Illustration by Madison Ketcham
Image by Skyler Dahan
Startups Aim to Broaden the Sex Tech Market, Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2022
Photo by Steph Martyniuk
The Truth about COVID, vaccines, and erections, Popular Science, December 3, 2021
Want to Have Sex with a Celeb? Sign an NDA, BuzzFeed News, June 7, 2021.
Image: Getty Images
Michael Morrison pictured. Photo by Patrick Heagney
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Helps Queer Players Express Themselves, Kotaku, 6/30/2020
Screenshot of Andrew McGuire’s Stonewall Island
Are You Ready for a Sex Toy Revolution?, OZY
by Hallie Lieberman & Maxine Lynn, Aug. 7, 2018
A “teledildonics” patent has long held back the industry, but bedrooms will soon be vibrating with excitement.
What the Largest Sex Furniture Manufacturer in the US Can Teach America About Trade, Quartz, Dec. 2, 2018
10 Things You Never Knew About Adult Toys, Female First
If You Mold It, They Will Come, Bitch Magazine, Summer 2015.
Article detailing the history of the silicone dildo, an invention created in the early 1970s by a paraplegic engineer from Grenada who was frustrated by his own impotence and lack of sexual resources for disabled people.
Was Christine Jorgensen The Caitlyn Jenner of the 1950s, Jstor Daily, May 12, 2017
A short history of Christine Jorgensen.
Sex Parties Are Back, BuzzFeed News, July 30, 2021
Illustration by Yadi Liu
The Trigger Effect, The Atavist, August 2018.
Won Clarion Award & Finalist for DART Award.
Desexing the Kinsey Institute,
New York Review of Books, March 20, 2018
How the famed sex institute shifted its focus to love and why.
In Defense of Sex Robots, Quartz, March 2, 2019.
How sex robots could save us in the #MeToo era. Fun fact: Breitbart ripped off my article.
Why You Should Buy Your Partner a Sex Toy for Christmas, Quartzy, Dec. 14, 2017
A history of the condom from goat-instestine versions in the 16th century to 19th century gentleman's rubber safes and 21st century thin latex versions .
When I found Out my Ex is Trans it changed me too, Bust, Feb/March 2017
A personal story of questioning my own gender role after my ex-boyfriend transitioned into a woman.
Illustration by Shannon Freshwater
Teaching Gender Studies to Straight Men, Inside Higher Ed, Jan. 3, 2017
Why Gender Studies should be more focused on appealing to men instead of just preaching to the choir.