This post overviews tensions between trans-exclusionary radical feminists and trans feminists, and discusses how non-binary gender can be regarded as feminist, exploring what non-binary feminism...
This blog post has been bubbling away for a while. I want to write about the process that I’ve found helpful when struggling with difficult...
Open relationships: Applying the concept of openness to all relationships in various ways. Content warning: relationship conflict and abusive relationships are touched on briefly in...
Yesterday I ran some training on relationship therapy for counsellors which involved exploring various different approaches and techniques. I was reminded of a chapter that...
This is more of a personal post than most that I write but I’m including it here rather than in the offline journal where I...
When I woke up this morning a lot of people had shared a link on facebook to the story of a conflict between two people...
I’ve blogged before on the tension between kindness and honesty: how, often, when we try to communicate honestly we sacrifice kindness, and when we try...
Something that has been a live issue for me recently – both in my own life and in conversations with friends – is how we...
This post discusses polarisation, a theme that is covered in more depth in my book The Psychology of Sex. The last couple of days I’ve been...
The inevitability of treating partners as things? Romance in Ruby Sparks (and why I like the ending)
Recently I got round to watching last year’s Ruby Sparks on DVD. I’d been looking forward to watching this film for some time because it...