Sexual Assumptions

fuckyeahpolyamory:

10 Things the American Media Really Need to Learn About Sex

isthisthevoid:

Great piece:

Of all the national conversations suffering for lack of rigorous debate and actual facts, the sexual conversation is one most likely to turn otherwise professional journalists and pundits into alarmists and preachers.

When editors and writers aren’t just playing to America’s persistent sexual ignorance, they’re deepening it: pegging stories to stereotypes, slip-sliding over science, even recycling their own sketchy trend pieces. This is how female desire can be rediscovered every month, while women are shamed for actually acting on it – sometimes just a few pages away. 

“A lot of journalists just get a pass,” says sex educator Cory Silverberg. “The bar is so low, and our expectations are so low when it comes to covering sex.” But why, as a load of awful sex advice pieces have asked before, should we settle?