Helping Nerds Get The Girl
There’s a lot of anxiety surrounding being a virgin. We live in a society that has a notable double-standard on sexuality, especially where virginity is concerned; male virgins (past a certain age) are seen as being immature, incomplete man-children, utter losers who can’t get a woman1. A woman who is a virgin is a vision [...]
Today I’m introducing a new series of articles examining various notable figures in geek culture, why they’re popular and why nerds may want to emulate them. A set of nerd role models, as it were. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things to keep in mind when it comes [...]
The topic of rape culture and what it means to give consent has been coming up in conversations online and off lately. The discussion regarding whether a sex scene in HBO’s Girls depicted rape, sexual assault or just bad sex helped bring the topic to the forefront of the Internet. Meanwhile, conviction of two of the [...]
There are few topics more fraught with anxiety and confusion – for men and women – than the idea of virginity. I can’t count the number of letters I’ve gotten from virgin readers, men and women of just about every age who have not had sex yet and are desperately afraid that they’re “too late”. Some may have [...]
So last time we talked about one of the eternal questions: why aren’t women more receptive to casual sex? The common answer is that women approach sex differently than men do – whether it’s treating sex as a way of getting a relationship, leveraging their “superior” social status in order to screen out less-desirable males or [...]
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