Hammered
Once upon a time, I lived in Japan and worked with junior high school students. Every week or so, I would hear someone repeat a Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” It was...
View ArticleIt's Your Vulva
I was 19 years old before I learned that urine does NOT leave the body via the vagina. I successfully repressed that humiliating memory until a few months ago when we began to think about attempting...
View ArticleMiriam
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed" is my absolute...
View ArticleTwo Tiny Tokes
Here's the deal. I am an ordinary middle-aged (yikes! when did that happen?) woman of middle America. I went to college during the seventies. Everyone I knew tried marijuana; most of us tried lots of...
View ArticleMore Personal Reflections on Gay Suicides
Hello Everyone, I have an overwhelming need to spread extremely important information to you right now. My hands shake as I type this. More and more stories of gay teenagers being bullied into suicide...
View ArticleNo More Suicides!
It was an ugly death for such a pretty boy. Neighbors complained of the smell. Police clambered into the canyon and soon found the corpse, rotting in a heat wave, a distilled water bottle between its...
View ArticleSan Francisco Coffee Wars
San Francisco comedy performance art theater troupe Killing My Lobster has made some hilarious videos, often about uniquely Bay Area experiences, but they have truly outdone themselves with their...
View ArticleI Do Not Understand This Cuddling You Speak Of
As a person who moves primarily among significantly younger people, and dates exclusively younger people (I’m a Lifestyle Cougar) I sometimes come up against things I simply don’t understand.read more
View ArticleHowl: Everything Has Changed
Well, my goodness. Things certainly have changed since I was a girl. And thank God for it. This, more than anything else, was what kept drifting into my mind when I saw Howl, the new film about the...
View ArticleLatexual
Ah, the bloom of careless youth. We’ve all seen the after school specials and the popular high school TV shows that warn about accidental teen pregnancy because teenage boys don’t want to use condoms...
View ArticleComing Out in 2010
If you're a bank or a school, today is Columbus Day, which celebrates the day hundreds of years ago when Christopher Columbus came across the American continent thinking it was India. For the rest of...
View ArticleThere Were No Closets In My House
When I saw a post on livejournal about National Coming Out Day, I realized that even here in my sex-positive, queerluscious, kinktastic office, we hadn't talked about the fact that today was National...
View ArticleMenopause's Pleasures
Women past childbearing age are the ones leading the changes toward a better world all over the globe says Jean Houston. She claims that 85% of the founders of change movements – planting trees,...
View ArticleCarnalNation Says Goodbye - For Now…
Update: We're not dead yet! We are in negotiation to transfer the magazine over to another very dedicated and talented group of individuals with a mission aligned with ours. Stay tuned for exciting...
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