Author Archives: Lara Loewenstein

The United States has one of the highest rates of male circumcision in the world, and is the only country that practices infant circumcision for non-religious purposes even though the medical benefits are considered controversial. Since there is no medical benefit to male circumcision it is, blatantly, a form of genital mutilation (just as female […]

It’s finals week, and while you may be stressing out or just getting some pre-spring break partying in before your finals actually begin, don’t forget to eat. As counterintuitive as it seems, the quality of your diet is linked to the quality of your sex life. So while it may seem easier to make a […]

Two words my Latin teacher purposely forgot to teach me ““ cunnilingus and fellatio. When Kinsey wrote his infamous reports in the ’50s, he stated that 10 percent of men had performed cunnilingus and 19.1 percent of women had executed fellatio prior to being confined in wedlock. The stats seem to have changed a little […]

March is upon us, spring is in the air, and our young, naughty minds naturally turn to thoughts of birds and bees. However, while our minds may wander, it is important to remember that March is also Women’s History Month. And tomorrow is International Women’s Rights Day, also known as Daisy Day. I always notice […]

According to the 1948 Kinsey report “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and the 1953 “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,” 92 percent of men and 62 percent of women like to tickle their own pleasure organs on a regular basis. Or, for a more technical term, the majority of the population likes to masturbate […]

Sex ““ from the seductive Abercrombie & Fitch model on the billboard on the Sunset Strip, to almost every bedroom in America, to the magazine rack at Borders, to the nooks and crannies of the UCLA campus ““ it is here to haunt us, plague us, and please us. And it’s impossible to deny that […]