I got this nice-but-also-sad email just now, from the Playboy Radio producers I work with:
First and foremost I want to say thank you so much for being a part of our team and doing our Sex in the News for so long. We’ve absolutely LOVED having you on! Due to our merger w/ [...]

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My alumni magazine reports that a UC Davis professor of communications published a book about “applied interpersonal communication,” which here means “flirting and carrying on,” in which he found reasons for why a female “no” sounds like “yes” to many young men.

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Apologies for not posting show notes last week – the day went pear-shaped and then I never got back to it. And since this week’s could easily be 2000 words, I’m breaking it into two posts. And next week I might start spreading the posts out over several days, so I have more room to [...]

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After our Sex in the News segment, during the one break the Afternoon Advice host Tiffany Granath gets (it’s two minutes — just long enough to pee!), we talked about the differences between live radio and writing for the web.
One is that writing is archived forever — and it isn’t instant. So when I [...]

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Kind of an oddball week for Sex in the News (playboy radio, afternoon advice with tiffany granath, 11am pacific, sirius channel 198), with several international stories bringing laughter and puzzlement to the fishbowl.
First, though, I have to clear up a misunderstanding: While I did squeal with delight at the chance to flash my ass at [...]

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Our Afternoon Advice host Tiffany Granath (MySpace, website) cracked me up this morning with the story of why her car — a beautiful white Jaguar coupe – is in the shop. You see, its built-in Bluetooth isn’t working. Which is a job hazard, because she has to shout, and she makes a living from her [...]

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I’m nostalgic for Sex Drive Daily today.
The Explorers Blog announces that Canadian sex ed site Sexuality and U is now using Browsealoud, software that reads the site content aloud for you. You can also record the audio to MP3 for later listening — sort of like TiVo for your sex ed.
Young women outnumber young men [...]

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My main regret about the end of the show was that I had already left the mic before the earthquake hit. And while I do not in any way want host Tiffany Granath to feel fright or pain, I’ve got to say, my first thought upon seeing her turn white and hearing her trying to [...]

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I must have been doing Sex in the News on Playboy Radio for more than a month, now, ’cause our host Tiffany Granath started the show with the report that her period started — painfully — last night, and then ensued a discussion about who follows whose schedule, and that Marie’s will be a couple [...]

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Our Sex in the News segment started off on a surprising note today, as I learned that Jenny Block was coming in later to talk about her new book Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage and Tiffany asked me about polyamory, swinging, and what do we tell the children.
Yikes!
But moving on to [...]

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My dad loves the Eiffel Tower, for some reason. He has a little one in his home office that lights up in the same pattern as the real thing, and his office office calendar has 12 lovely shots of the famous structure. Consequently, I tend to notice references to the Eiffel Tower, in books and [...]

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Here’s the column I’ve been hinting about for ages. I couldn’t squeeze everything into my word count, but I did try to hit the highlights.
Sex Drive: Tech Helps Soldiers Cope with Invisible Wounds of War
Some war injuries are obvious at first glance, like missing limbs or facial burn scars. Others remain invisible to the casual [...]

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My Playboy Radio Sex in the News segment took a detour into personal news as host Tiffany Granath and I discovered we are leading parallel lives. Recently we learned our birthdays are a week apart; we both spontaneously wore skirts on the same day; and we both injured our bodies this weekend badly enough to [...]

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Life will find a way? Online Dating Insider notes (Saudi Singles Resort to BlueTooth Belts) that young Islamic people are coming up with ways to sneak their phone numbers to one another, to share texts and pictures. The NY Times has a feature (Love on Girls’ Side of the Saudi Divide) about what it’s like [...]

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