Dr. Strokes

G Marks the Spot

by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 1/19/2009

Dr. Strokes comes back for one last (?) column, this one brought to you by the letter G and the year 1982. More

  • I Promised Queer Theories

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 12/16/2008

    Dr. Strokes suddenly figures out her queerness in the shortest column all semester. I have a difficult relationship with my body, and a lot of that conflict comes from my identity as a survivor. I hate it, sometimes, when I think about how it was used to make me feel so ... More

  • Curiosity Killed the... Columnist?

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 11/21/2008

    Dr. Strokes wonders why it's sometimes easier to have sex than to talk about sex (yes, even for her) and asks a whole bunch of questions which maybe you can answer. More

  • No Way Am I Nailin' Paylin (Porn Can Be Good)

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 11/13/2008

    Now that we're a full week away from the stress of potentially seeing her in the White House, I feel safe to discuss "Who's Nailin' Paylin," and to share some superior porn recommendations. More

  • Anatomy of a Rape Fantasy

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 11/6/2008

    Dr. Strokes explores the question of rape fantasies. More

  • BDSM, Hot Wax, and Siegfried Kracauer

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 10/31/2008

    Am I feeling embodied in my body, confident in myself, close to my partner, and welcoming of the pleasure in my life? Then hooray. We're doing BDSM right. More

  • Sometimes I Want to Get Back in the Closet

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 10/23/2008

    Coming Out Week always makes me wonder: Is my sex life a political statement? Is that what I want? Can we just go back to the "laughing at hilarious fetishes" model at the end of the column and see how that works out? More

  • Orgasmic Myths for Men and Women, Part Two

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 10/10/2008

    In part one we learned that in order for me to get to a comfortable place sexually, I had to first crash, hard, into the myth that women who don't [...] More

  • Orgasmic Myths for Men and Women, Part One

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 10/9/2008

    ...wouldn't it be neat if this were a column about hot mythological roleplay? Yes, Andromeda, yes it would. But it's not a column about that. It's a column about this: [...] More

  • Group Sex Can't Be This Stressful

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 10/3/2008

    Writing a sex column is not as easy as it looks. It turns out you get to a point where you've written four columns, some of which people have liked, [...] More

  • Disclosing Before Dis-clothing (Yeah, It's Weird)

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 9/24/2008

    I was originally planning on talking about vulvodynia this week, but it's the Clothesline Project week here on campus, and I can't think about rape, child abuse, domestic violence, the [...] More

  • Sexual Scripts, and Learning to be Your Own Director

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 9/18/2008

    I should start this column by saying that I had some pretty great sex this past week, that there's a spring in my step because of it, and that this [...] More

  • You Are Not the Tin Man, Or, Disembodiment During Sex

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 9/11/2008

    Thanks to the Internet, I now know that I'm a self-obsessed and sex-hating harpie in serious need of therapy, and also that I am a unique little snowflake whose sexual [...] More

  • Your New Sex Columnist is Breaking all the Rules

    by DR. STROKES, COLUMNIST | 9/4/2008

    My name is Dr. Strokes, and I'm your newest sex columnist. Here are some things you need to know about me: 1. I'm a white female who was raised in [...] More