Last week, my stepfather, Mosch Virshup, was in a terrible bicycle accident. He is unconscious in the neurological ICU at the University of New Mexico Hospital.
Mosch came into my life when I was already a teenager – I met him through the church youth group as a high school freshman. The first time [...]
Archives for June, 2010
About Mosch, my stepfather
I’ll be on Kink on Tap!
I’m delighted to announce that this Sunday at 7pm CST I will be a guest at Kink on Tap - “the smartest sexuality netcast for the kinkily inclined!” A longer description of the netcast, from Kink on Tap’s website, is:
Tired of the pulp eroticization of sexuality? Annoyed by the self-aggrandizement of sex bloggers? Want [...]
Why are we learning this again?
I spend a lot of my time teaching, and I love it. Sometimes I teach classes that are associated with formal schooling, and so I need to formally grade my students. Other times I teach informal classes through churches, private schools, or parenting groups and I do not grade my students.
Ultimately, I prefer the non-grading [...]
Nakedness and self image
I recently wrote a post about nakedness - nudity, actually - that was sparked by reading an autobiography of sorts by a nude model. That post sparked a lovely conversation with a Naturist from the UK. And then, a few days ago, I showed a bunch of pictures of naked people to my college class.
I [...]
It sounds like a joke…
“So a gay, French, teenage school boy walks into a McDonald’s…” But it’s actually a French advertisement by McDonald’s. One they would never, ever air in the US.
I wonder if the father is just unaware of his son’s sexual orientation, if he is in denial about it, or if he is blatantly homophobic? I think [...]
Summer school
My first college summer class teaching human sexuality starts today. I’ve taught summer school before, but it’s generally been developmental psychology or educational psychology or one of those other topics I teach on occasion. Experiencing a classroom that is focused on sex is just different than other topics, and so I wonder what this whip-lash [...]
