Sex Advice From A Magazine
Here’s Emily Nagoski on getting your sex advice from the writers who write for pop magazines:
The ubiquity of sex writing that neglects actual helpfulness or accuracy and focuses exclusively on entertainment just makes life harder for anyone whose job it is to untangle the sociopsychological knots that popular culture, including these columns, create in people’s sexualities.
People really, truly want to know how to be better lovers, understand what their partner wants, and how to be more attractive to their crush object. People are starving for this information. It’s why they read the columns, at least in part. I can’t be the only person who, at 18, read these kinds of things ravenously, only to be left bloated and disappointed. It’s like giving candy to a starving person: hell yes it will taste good and it might even make them feel full, but it won’t actually nourish them.
And, know though I do that Emily meant this in complete seriousness, I still LOLed when I read it:
Then again, you can ask me but you won’t particularly like the answers because they are not entertaining; they involve you doing stuff you don’t want to do. What you really want to know is how to meet a man without having to sieve through dozens of people you’re not interested in, without having to depart your comfort zone, without risking rejection. And what you really want to know is how to turn on a woman with something that turns YOU on, rather than with empathy, consideration, and affection.
It funny because it true.
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Yeah, and I thought I was the only teenager reading all those trashy “feminine” magazines that had articles about sex. But that was really the only way to learn anything about sex, even if it was all trash.
Now, kids go to the internet and I’m not sure they find anything much better than those Cosmo’s I read as a kid. Thankfully there are SLOWLY getting to be more websites designed around providing good sex information for people of all ages. Needless to say though, the trash/misinformation still outweighs the good stuff 10 to 1.
Nice work pointing out one of the Sex Nerd’s excellent points and keep up the great work on this blog!
-Mr. Science