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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Steubenville: Why People Behave Badly in the Aftermath of a Rape

So what went wrong in the town of Steubenville?  How do we understand why so many young people stood by and did nothing while a young woman was raped? Why did the football coach protect the perpetrators knowing they had committed this rape? Why were parents so quick to vilify the victim and jump to…

March 25, 2013 in Sexual Assault and Trauma.

How Monogamy Soothes Our Existential Angst

We are an infidelity obsessed culture. Our media is saturated with it, politicians’ careers ruined by it, and self-help authors and talk show hosts play on our fears of it. Earlier last month I attended a talk here in NYC by therapist Esther Perel on Infidelity: From Trauma to Transformation. Perel, the author of the…

March 4, 2013 in LGBT, Monogamy, Polyamory, Relationships.

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