I wrote a reaction over on The Belly Project about Glamour magazine’s article and accompanying photo spread with “plus-sized” models. Glamour’s rather self-righteous tone and the plethora of too-excited, supposed-society-exploding headlines were all getting to me.
The one really good thing to come out of Glamour’s photo shoot? This really beautiful picture:
(Please ignore the [...]
On Wednesday I described an assignment I give to my college Human Sexuality students where they create a media image that incorporates positive sexuality. I am posting three best projects from my class this semester. On Wednesday, I posted about the blog Avant Garde Bodies, yesterday I put up sexy advertisements that showed real women’s [...]
Yesterday I introduced a project I use in my college level human sexuality classes where students learn how to analyze media images for their sexual content (and the quality of that content) and then create a media image of their own.
The second project is from Heather Haygood. She created sexy advertisements for gum and condoms [...]
I also, as many of you know, teach human sexuality at the college level. Many of these students come into my classroom with vast misunderstandings of the reproductive system (”Isn’t it true that every time you jump or sit down hard you kill one of the eggs in your ovaries?”) and barely any experience with [...]
