The special issue of the journal Psychology and Sexuality on asexuality that I co-edited with Mark Carrigan and Todd Morrison was recently released as an edited collection, Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology (2014), by Routledge.
The book is available through Amazon and through Routledge, although the price is quite steep.
The LSE Review of Books just published a favorable review of the book.
Not too long ago, I came across this news story about lab grown vaginas. Apparently, a team of researchers from the U.S. and Mexico grew vaginal organs in a lab for four teenage patients who had “underdeveloped” or absent vaginas.
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine has posted materials about the study here and here.
The story raises interesting questions about whether this new medical technology will serve to enforce gender and sexual norms or whether it could serve to enable gender and sexual play; however I argue in this post that these questions are not all that easy to answer.
Vaginal Scaffold (Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine)