While the Internet typically isn't the best place to do serious
research, online resources can prove helpful in tracking down specific
bits of information as well as in determining further possibilities,
on- and offline, for continuing our research. Increasingly, too,
serious scholarship is being practiced and/or made available online,
and such resources will only become more integral and, therefore, more
indispensable to work in English studies in years to come.
What follows, then, are ten Web-based resources that have proven
helpful to my students and me (as well as lots of other people). I
share them here in hopes that everyone else will find them equally
useful. I would go further, too, and encourage all of our readers to
share additional resources on the English Club blog. If you've found a
particular site, or even an offline resource, that's accurate,
authoritative or one you frequently visit for some sort of research
help, please do share it with the rest of us!
Resource Links
For everybody who did and didn't go to the female orgasm presentation in Founder's last night, I wanted to reassert some of the issues that were raised and hopefully start a discussion on here. Dorian, one of the speakers, mentioned that it's taboo in our society to touch and talk about our bodies...as a small child we each learned the correct words for nose, elbow, fingers...and our pee-pee? We carry these ideas past puberty and suddenly we are in sexual situations that we have little control over or knowledge about. On the flip side of this issue, as we grow into adults our families, schools, churches, etc. are often very effective and aggressive about teaching us to say 'no' to sex...but what happens when we are finally in a situation; love, marriage, maturity...and we don't know how to say yes? Or how to respond in a positive way that is both respectful of ourselves and the other person. What do you guys think? Are we even comfortable talking about this?