Big congrats to my undergrad student, Alethea Quick, who completed a senior honors thesis analyzing our US nationally representative data on orgasm coercion. 91.4% of participants had ever experienced some form of orgasm coercion & we didn’t really see sig differences by various identity groups. 🤯

New psychology research explains why some women devalue their own orgasms When women consistently experience infrequent orgasms, both they and their partners mentally downgrade the importance of climaxing. While this psychological shift protects short-term self-esteem, new research suggests it might ultimately perpetuate the ongoing orgasm gap.

A new study suggests that women start to devalue their own orgasms when they happen infrequently. This may be self-protective in the short term, but may ultimately widen the orgasm gap. www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-...

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It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ohio Man Is First to Be Federally Convicted for Deepfake Porn James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, had at least 10 victims, according to the authorities. He pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and other charges covered by the Take It Down Act.

An Ohio man became the first person to be convicted under a 2025 federal law on revenge porn that also made publishing pornographic deepfakes a crime, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

I’m also growing increasingly concerned about pre-prints - the theory & motivations behind them are well-intended, but I’ve already seen news sites (& now this suggests AI) report on pre-prints as though they are full-fledged scientific publications.

It’s upper-level content on intro-level topics (e.g., theories, anatomy, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, gender, porn, etc.). There is info on kink & poly but we were just talking about stepping it up in the 17th ed! So there is some but I would say it’s intro info for non-kink/poly practitioners.

Here we go! We are VERY excited to announce the publication of the 16th ed of Understanding Human Sexuality, by Janet Hyde & now also myself & the incredible @morgancjerald.bsky.social ! What an honor to participate in educating thousands of students about sexuality & to share in this legacy. 😍

Yes, exactly!!

Love this!! I have been thinking that it can be difficult to get participants to report on negative/problematic behaviors when they are currently in the relationship if they’re otherwise satisfied, bc the overall positive sentiment shapes how they see all the things!

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
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🔥🔥🔥 then on to the next one!! 😂

Men who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derision A new study reveals that young men who support the so-called tradwife movement are driven more by hostile sexism and resentment toward women than by a chivalrous desire to protect and provide for them.

Men who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derision

2026 Sexual Education Curriculum Requirements In The US - Sex and Psychology A look at the state of sex education in the United States in 2026.

A positive development in the world of sex ed is that 5 states added a requirement to teach about sexual consent last year. However, that only brings the total number to 16. In 2026, the vast majority of states still don't require consent instruction. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2026/4/...

Just a little throwback to my early days in the feminist social neuroendocrinology lab! 🥰

Is the U.S. Tax Code Anti-Feminist?

“The tax code often assumes that economic resources within a household are shared equally and that caregiving has no independent economic value. Both assumptions obscure the realities of inequality and disproportionately disadvantage women.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/y...

Ok wait, I would love to talk to you about this paper!!!

Best joke from last night.

Scientists studied why women want less sex than men—they now have an answer Drawing on evidence from more than 300 scientific studies, researchers have debunked a long-held myth about women's desire.

New research suggests that the reason women tend to report less sexual desire than men may not be due to biological differences, but early negative sexual experiences that occur during an important developmental period. www.newsweek.com/sex-libido-gap-scientist...

New study analyzing fertility data and the volume of pronatalist media coverage finds the two are unrelated, suggesting “pronatalist media discourse selectively deploys demographic evidence in order to operate as an ideological regime of truth.”
www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/worki...

Social Class Discrimination and Academic Success: A Person‐Centered Approach Among Adolescents Disadvantaged in Social Class Introduction Prior research indicates that social class is strongly associated with academic outcomes such as GPA. However, little work explores the role that social discrimination plays in this rel...

New work with @zenamello.bsky.social -- using the person-centered approach, we found that social class discrimination, particularly discrimination that occurs in school negatively relates to academic outcomes. Classism from teachers was most common onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Development and Validation of the Online and In-Person Dating App Facilitated Sexual Aggression Perpetration Scales for Men Who Have Sex with Men(O-DAFSA-P-MSM and IP-DAFSA-P-MSM) Dating app facilitated sexual aggression (DAFSA) includes sexually aggressive behaviors that occur during online dating app communication or in-person during an initial meetup with someone from a d...

Our new measures of dating app aggression among MSM are here!! 🚨Now published in JSR with co-authors @jackiewoerner.bsky.social @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social and @ahlewis.bsky.social !!

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So fun to see @pniedent.bsky.social interviewed as a Michigan alum at the umich social at #SPSP2026! The Michigan magic is so real! Go blue! (Or cough cough, I mean…On, Wisconsin!!! 😂) @morgancjerald.bsky.social

Proud advisor moment after watching @abbie-clapp.bsky.social’s great presentation on our new BOP Scale!! We found that aspects of the BOP scale predicted things like lower desire & more sexual coercion experiences four months later in women partnered with men!

Congrats to our two “best data blitz” winners at the sexuality pre-conference! Grace Wetzel presented on adapting scripts to facilitate women’s orgasms and Carly Wolfer presented on an intervention for women’s sexual pleasure!

#SPSP2026

Come learn more men’s sexual objectification of their women partners!! We made a scale and it’s pretty awesome! Today (Friday) at 9:30AM in E255! @abbie-clapp.bsky.social

#SPSP2026

That’s a wrap for the SPSP pre-conference day! I was very lucky to get to end the day with a FEAST in Chinatown with this group of incredible gender and sexuality scholars and friends! 😍

Love this way of promoting your lab’s work! Very cool!

Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.

Group of red and gray human-shaped figures standing on a light surface, with red figures clustered in the center symbolizing leadership or focus.

📊New research finds that the 2024 election in the United States was associated with increased acceptance of prejudice toward groups targeted in campaign rhetoric, similar to patterns observed following the 2016 election.

Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/VemK50Y3W2u

Anthropologists just upended our understanding of “normal” testosterone levels A study of Indigenous Shuar males shows that typical hormone patterns differ across environments. These findings suggest that Western medical benchmarks for male health may not reflect the biological reality for many people globally.

Anthropologists just upended our understanding of “normal” testosterone levels