Requirements for a Sex Life Worthy of a Major Motion Picture
Categories: Sex Week
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. As a generation, we’re a hookup culture. Some might call it slutty, and some might call it liberated, but no one can disagree that it makes us more sexually knowledgeable. I think our penchant [...]
Gen Y: Entitled to Sex. All the time.
Categories: Sex Week
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. By Rachel Fletcher: “I was born and raised in beautiful Colorado and moved to Philadelphia in 2004 where I attended the University of Pennsylvania. I was an English major and a film minor. I [...]
Sex and Millennial Culture: Observations about Teens, Tweens, Homosexuality
Categories: Sex Week
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. No one will argue the point that sex and the internet go together like peas and carrots. Every time you check your e-mails or surf the web, you’re either being offered bargain rates on [...]
The N-Word, John Mayer, And The Mental Cost Of Sex
Categories: Sex Week
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. When I mention John Mayer’s recent interview with Playboy magazine you probably assume, “Oh, great. He’s going to talk about the ‘nigger’ part,” because I’m a black writer and have to comment every time [...]
Does Pornography Always Objectify?
Categories: Sex Week
It’s easy to blame the images on the billboard for everything that’s wrong with society, but perhaps it’s how we see them that’s the problem. Are the airbrushed covers of Cosmopolitan or Sports Illustrated really that different from the Pin-Up girls of Gil Elvgren 50 years ago? This article takes a look at the issue of sexual images in the media today.
Just Sex? Gen Y Likes It Four Ways
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This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. We all dream of romantic relationships and love. Love that makes us happy. Love that changes our lives. Love that changes our outlook. But not all of us are lucky enough to experience this [...]
In Pictures: Sexuality
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This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. Guest Photographer: Katy Weaver Sex attracts us and distracts us. The mere mention of the word can swivel heads. No matter what we do, we can’t seem to avoid it. Everyone thinks of sexuality [...]
What Do You Wish Your Parents Had Told You About Sex?
Categories: Respond
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. The “Birds and Bees” conversation of your childhood likely covered only the basic mechanics of human procreation. In subsequent years you may have picked up bits of information from friends, magazines, or a health [...]
How Does Gen Y Define Sex?
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This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. What comes to mind when your friend tells you they’ve hooked up with someone? I mean, which base? 1st; 2nd; 3rd; or… home? Debatable, right? Well, it at least depends on who you ask. [...]
My Decision To Take A Lover
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This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. When you can’t even find time between classes, the internship that pads your resume and the waitressing gig that pads your wallet to take a 20-minute power-nap, how can you be expected to keep [...]
