Lara Riscol

Lara Riscol
Organization / Company: RH Reality Check
Lara Riscol is a freelance writer who explores societal conflicts and controversies surrounding sexuality. She has been published in The Nation, Salon, AlterNet and other media outlets worldwide, and is working on a book called, Ten Sex Myths That Screw America. Her chapter, Sex Sells: Business, Politics and the U.S. Media, is published in Praeger's "Sexual Health" textbook and can be found at SexualHealth.com. A member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, Riscol presents on Sexual Schizophrenia and America's Culture War to expose the political and cultural contradictions that pervert sexual lives.
Lara Riscol's articles

Sex and Dementia: Shrouded by Taboo

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by Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check

September 9, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

As liberated as Americans appear given today’s hyper-sexualized culture, it’s the baggage of retro myths that looms scariest to those of us who choose the dignity and respect of sexual personhood no matter how ravaged our memory.
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...With Sexual Liberty and Justice for All

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by Lara Riscol, RH Reality Check

February 9, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

After 16 years of being bludgeoned by zealots wielding sex as a weapon to divide and conquer Americans, can it be time for a new sexual revolution in the age of Obama? Creating Change says yes.
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