Here’s some good blogosphere reading to check out this week:

Urban Gypsy posts a fantastic Sexy Mom Blog Event post with a cameo from the amazingly talented Jamye Waxman!

Thank you, Em & Lo, for telling me about How Fucking Romantic, a blog that is illustrating each of the songs on the Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs album. Amazing.

Can stimulating the G-spot ever be painful? My favorite physician, Dr. Kate, takes on that query.

There’s a new issue of $pread!! Go get it. Where? Why, Babeland, of course.

Always Aroused Girl tackles gender policing with her children in her own Sexy Mom Blog Event post.

Genderqueer parenting? Absolutely. Thank you, Radical Doula, for this fantastic interview with a genderqueer mommy.

RH Reality Check reports that Spain is going to provide Emergency Contraception over the counter!

Check out the 2009 Women’s Health Heroes!

Did you know there’s a Star Trek parody porn? Fleshbot has a sneak preview.

Where else can you enjoy free coffee and muffins while brushing up on your sex ed?

The Babeland Brunch Series happens once a month on a Sunday where Brooklynites can drop by for a mini-workshop and get coffee and muffins from Blue Sky Bakery – all for free! Past topics have included the Art of the Blowjob, Anal 101 and Communication for Couples. Don’t miss this month’s topic: Harnesses and Dildos in honor of Pride.

The Babeland Brunch Series is a great place for some erotic inspiration!

Details: Sunday, June 14th, 12:00pm at the Babeland Brooklyn store located at 462 Bergen Street between Flatbush and 5th Avenue.

Last week a representative from Pennsylvania (Tim Murphy, in case you’re dying to know) introduced a bill that would create an Office of Men’s Health within the department of Health and Human Services. Murphy feels that “the Office of Men’s Health will bring this issue to the federal stage and result in more men getting the treatment they need, which will save lives,” said Murphy in a press release. “For too long the health needs of men have gone unaddressed. This bill will help men’s health take its rightful place in our federal government’s health care priorities.”

First, let me say that it is absolutely true that in general men underutilize health care – especially young adult men who drop out of the system after their last required shot from their pediatrician and often don’t come back in until their first prostate screening. There are huge opportunities for education and prevention around hypertension, sports fitness, sexual health and many other topics that men are losing out on. Men don’t go to the doctor for many reasons; they may feel that real men don’t need to get checked all of the time or they may not want bad news. Or, they simply might not know where to get good male-friendly care. Some of these are great examples of the ways in which our society’s ideas about masculinity can be very harmful to men (check out The Onion’s great recent examples of this).

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