The generation that is less likely to be married
Read up on Milennials and you’ll learn a few things: We’re lazy, over-confident and coddled, according to TIME. We’re going to have a hard time finding work out of college. We’re tech obsessed, TV...
View ArticlePillow Talk: To spank or not to spank?
Dear Katherine, How long should you wait before you spank your girlfriend during sex? Sincerely, Anxious Dear Anxious, I wish relationships were that predictable and straightforward. If they were, I...
View ArticlePillow Talk: What should I choose? The IUD or the pill?
Dear Katherine, What is a better birth control option: the IUD or the pill? Sincerely, Searching Dear Searching, As I’m sure you already know: Neither the IUD, nor the pill protect against STDs. So,...
View ArticlePillowtalk: The orgasm gap
One day each spring, you’ll find a diagram of a vagina in a large lecture hall on campus: PLC 180. The diagram is an intricate, detailed look at female anatomy with each part neatly labeled. But, what...
View ArticlePillow Talk: Is Tinder unhealthy for my psyche?
Dear Katherine, Three out of five of my roommates use Tinder for hook-ups. It’s only worked for one. Tinder is kinda silly, isn’t it? How impersonal will dating be in the future? How much will we let...
View ArticlePillow Talk: How do I talk to men?
Dear Katherine, I am demonstrably socially awkward. HOW DO I TALK TO MEN!?!?! Sincerely, Awk. Dear Awk., In hopes of finding the magical how-to-talk-to-men-formula, I searched the world of Google. The...
View ArticlePillow Talk: What do I get for her besides flowers?
Dear Katherine, What are some simple “just because” gestures I make besides giving her flowers? Sincerely, Lover’s Block Dear Lover’s Block, Few things compare to the gestures you’re talking about. The...
View ArticleThink Eugene needs a gay bar? You might be in luck.
When John O’Malley first moved to Eugene from New York City, he was shocked. It wasn’t the city’s people, its politics or its dampness. It was its nightlife: Eugene didn’t have a gay bar. Then O’Malley...
View ArticleLife as an asexual in a hypersexual culture: “Invisibility is probably the...
Lillian Huebner forgets where they first heard the word. It might have been while reading a book. Or scrolling through Tumblr accounts. What the 20-year-old University of Oregon sophomore does remember...
View ArticlePillow Talk: How ineffective is the pullout method, really?
The first time I sought birth control, I was in high school and I was nervous. It wasn’t so much that I was embarrassed to talk about sex. I’d been having sex for a few months with my long-term...
View ArticlePillow Talk: I have a right to go topless, too: Why we should “free the nipple”
Just this September, I went topless — in public — for the first time. Laying on a towel by the river in Eugene, I had untied my bikini top. I felt free. Confident. Empowered. Luckily, I live in Oregon...
View ArticlePillow Talk: “My boyfriend and best friends don’t get along. What should I do?”
Dear Katherine, My best friends and my boyfriend don’t get along — so much so that they can’t stand being in the same room. What should I do? Sincerely, Stuck In the Middle Dear Stuck, That’s a lot of...
View ArticlePillow Talk: My best friends spend more time with their boyfriends than with...
Dear Katherine, I hardly ever get to see or talk to some of my best friends since they started becoming more interested in their boyfriends. This keeps happening again and again. Should I be jealous?...
View Article“Stroke it for me”: Seven songs about female sexual pleasure
I’ll admit: I really like to shake my ass. But, sometimes, the music I like to dance to (club hits, mostly) compromise my feminist sensibilities: I back my ass up to “Gas Pedal” and drop it like it’s...
View ArticleSex: Nadia Cho's library sex scandal at UC Berkeley
While students at UC Berkeley were busy making travel plans for Thanksgiving, Nadia Cho had another prerogative. She wanted to prove that having sex on campus was possible. Not just anywhere, but in UC...
View Article“Coming to understand:” How ignorance skews our ideas of the female orgasm
Remember back in middle school when it seemed you couldn’t go anywhere without finding a drawing of a penis? You’d find penises scribbled in notebooks, or drawn in the dust of a car window, or etched...
View Article2012-13 schedule of productions for University theater
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. Mark your calendar with these 2012-13 University Theatre productions. Love.Will.Shake. Robinson Theatre November 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 “Love. Will. Shake.” weaves through...
View ArticleA world with the male birth control pill
Since the approval of the birth control pill in the early 1960s, women have largely carried the burden of contraception: we set daily reminders into our phones to take the pill, we get the Depo-Provera...
View ArticleStudy says younger people are more likely to search for a soul mate on average
Do couples that believe in the concept of soul mates have a higher chance of survival than those that don’t? According to the Washington Times, an article in Social Science Research shows that these...
View ArticleAdvice: How to tell your boyfriend to text more maturely
Dear Katherine, It’s been two months since I’ve started seeing my current boyfriend. I am very happy — he’s kind and considerate, he has a great sense of humor and he’s interesting. There is just one...
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