At the onset of her fourth year in college, Eve has learned quite a few things about sex. Eve, The Hatchet's anonymous sex columnist, will share her observations and (sometimes dirty) thoughts about sex at GW with the population that fuels her fire.
Editor's note: names have been changed to protect the naughty.
It's easy to believe.
For example, when was the last time you thought that masturbation caused blindness? Have you ever checked your palms for increased hair after a vigorous session with yourself? I once believed that I should swallow semen because my oh-so-manipulative boyfriend told me it was a metabolic enhancer (give head and lose weight - who could ask for anything more?).
Sexual myths seem to be the most prevalent, and the easiest to believe. Because we receive sexual information from all different sources - religious institutions, television, our parents, schoolmates, the cashier at Wendy's - it is difficult to separate the truth from the guy who just really, really wants you to swallow. Even in our Internet-saturated, post-Kinsey, post-RuPaul world where sex shops border Italian restaurants in swanky neighborhoods, sexual myths pervade.
Sure, we know that your average male won't turn into Teen Wolf if he masturbates. We have as many birth control options as flavors of Orbitz gum. We also know that the female clitoris has more nerve endings than the penis and consider female circumcision to be a crime.
Why, then, is non-religious male circumcision still so common in the United States? Why do we think a man with foreskin is somehow dirtier? Why do many of my girlfriends shudder at the though of an "uncut" penis? Why did I myself, the first time I encountered foreskin, ask the lovely gentleman with whom I was naked "What's up with that?" Needless to say, that turtle went right back into his shell.
Like a good investiga-horny journalist, I decided to do some research into this particular sexual notion to find out if the superiority of the circumcised penis to the non-circumcised penis is, in fact, a myth.
Editor's note: names have been changed to protect the naughty.
It's easy to believe.
For example, when was the last time you thought that masturbation caused blindness? Have you ever checked your palms for increased hair after a vigorous session with yourself? I once believed that I should swallow semen because my oh-so-manipulative boyfriend told me it was a metabolic enhancer (give head and lose weight - who could ask for anything more?).
Sexual myths seem to be the most prevalent, and the easiest to believe. Because we receive sexual information from all different sources - religious institutions, television, our parents, schoolmates, the cashier at Wendy's - it is difficult to separate the truth from the guy who just really, really wants you to swallow. Even in our Internet-saturated, post-Kinsey, post-RuPaul world where sex shops border Italian restaurants in swanky neighborhoods, sexual myths pervade.
Sure, we know that your average male won't turn into Teen Wolf if he masturbates. We have as many birth control options as flavors of Orbitz gum. We also know that the female clitoris has more nerve endings than the penis and consider female circumcision to be a crime.
Why, then, is non-religious male circumcision still so common in the United States? Why do we think a man with foreskin is somehow dirtier? Why do many of my girlfriends shudder at the though of an "uncut" penis? Why did I myself, the first time I encountered foreskin, ask the lovely gentleman with whom I was naked "What's up with that?" Needless to say, that turtle went right back into his shell.
Like a good investiga-horny journalist, I decided to do some research into this particular sexual notion to find out if the superiority of the circumcised penis to the non-circumcised penis is, in fact, a myth.
