Sex columnist Dan Savage recently completed a college tour, accepting questions in person, as well as on 3×5 index cards to answer on his weekly column. He traveled to University of Lethbridge, State University of New York–Albany, University of Maryland, and University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Wait, SUNY Albany?
I love Dan Savage, but you need have a reach school in there somewhere. Dear Dan, stack up on extra-curriculars, run for class office, and take that SAT prep course. We’ll see you at Binghamton in no time.
For now, here’s a great (and PG rated) example of the lovely Dan Savage at his best:
When did you first realize you were LGBTQ, and how did people react to that? Did you struggle to find support?
I didn’t realize I was L, B, T, and Q until I arrived in Albany. And I’m not sure how friends and family are going to react to my recently discovered lesbianism, bisexuality, impending transition, and questioning status—question: now that I’m LGB and T, what outstanding Qs could there be?—but I expect they will be supportive. Just as confused as I am, but nevertheless supportive.
Portland’s first openly-gay mayor Sam Adams has said he will not resign from his position after facing harsh criticism for an affair he had with an 18 year old intern in 2005. Although the relationship was considered to be legal, Adams denied its existence throughout his campaign, and denounced it as a smear against him.
However, Adams revealed last week that that he had a consensual relationship with the then-18-year-old legislative intern named Beau Breedlove. Adams said that they met when Breedlove was 17, but that they were not involved in a physical relationship until after Breedlove turned 18.
Commissioner Randy Leonard received a phone call from Adams at 8 am today that said, “Regardless of what you think about me and regardless of what you think about the veracity of what I’m saying, I deserve due process and I’m going to stay on.”
Hundreds of supporters rallied in Portland Friday night in support of the mayor, including Dan Savage, Seattle’s widely syndicated sex columnist and LGBT rights advocate.
Adams is currently under investigation by the attorney general’s office.
Meredith Chivers, a psychology professor and sexual research writer, organized a study in which male and female subjects viewed pornography consisting of various men/women combinations, while their arousal levels were measured by instruments, as well as through a keypad which they used to rate what they liked.
This piece in the NY Times Magazine offers insight into the female sexuality, and how it is a bit more complicated than many believe, often showing conflict or complete disparity between what women say arouses them and what objectively arouses them:
No matter what their self-proclaimed sexual orientation, [the women] showed, on the whole, strong and swift genital arousal when the screen offered men with men, women with women and women with men. They responded objectively much more to the exercising woman than to the strolling man, and their blood flow rose quickly — and markedly, though to a lesser degree than during all the human scenes except the footage of the ambling, strapping man — as they watched the apes. And with the women, especially the straight women, mind and genitals seemed scarcely to belong to the same person.
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