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The Society Pages @thesocietypages.bsky.social · 4d

Check out the TSP Friday Roundup by Sara Kadoura!

Every week, we review and summarize the latest from us and our partners @contexts.org, @ccfamilies.bsky.social, & @firstpublics.bsky.social:
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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 7d

‼️ Today on the @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog ‼️

The Silent Signals of Great Sex: What We’re Not Saying in the Bedroom

Research by @ccfamilies.bsky.social Co-Chair @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and Audrey Lutmer explores nonverbal sexual communication and its impact on intimacy.

🔗 bit.ly/46tvozu

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 11d

Our latest September @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog post features Dr. Anna Gjika discussing her book: When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age.

@gjikaphd.bsky.social

Read our 3Q here:
🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

3Q with Anna Gjika When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Check out our third @thesocietypages.bsky.social post from this month!

3Q With William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

3Q with William D. Lopez on Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Our second September blog post features @ccfamilies.bsky.social co-chairs @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social discussing their book:

BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community?

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

Check it out!

BDSM Without the Sex: What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community? - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 15d

📢 September Notice!

Have you visited the @ccfamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @thesocietypages.bsky.social this month? Make sure to check it out!

First up:
3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

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3Q with Andréa Becker Get it Out: On The Politics of Hysterectomy - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 21d

This week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social, I ask 3 questions of William Lopez about his book, Raiding the Heartland.

Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 28d

What Kink Practitioners Can Teach Us About Building Community?

This week I discuss my book w/ @ArielleKuperberg.bsky.social, Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life on the @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social
Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

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The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Laura Lindberg @lauralindberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Check out our new brief @ccfamilies.bsky.social on the limitations of population projections for understanding future fertility patterns. The growing public discourse on declining fertility needs demographers voices and expertise, while recognizing the limits of our methods.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 20

New by
@amandajean.bsky.social
@lesja.bsky.social @alisongemmill.bsky.social
@srhayford.bsky.social
@drjenndowd.bsky.social
@lauralindberg.bsky.social
@shelleydclark.bsky.social
@karenguzzo.bsky.social

at @ccfamilies.bsky.social about population projections:

sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 20

New by
@amandajean.bsky.social
@lesja.bsky.social @alisongemmill.bsky.social
@srhayford.bsky.social
@drjenndowd.bsky.social
@lauralindberg.bsky.social
@shelleydclark.bsky.social
@karenguzzo.bsky.social

at @ccfamilies.bsky.social about population projections:

sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball

sites.utexas.edu

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Aug 20

From @amandajean.bsky.social and @ccfamilies.bsky.social : "Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball"

graph of historical population projections from 1946 showing they were all too low

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Feeling alarmed over dire long-term population projections that suggest humanity will disappear? Don't be!

Demographers generally aren't worried, and you shouldn't be either. @amandajean.bsky.social explains why in this great @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief.

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Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball

August 20th, 2025

Population panic – worries about “depopulation” linked to low birth rates – has become pervasive, with dire predictions in both the short and long term. Yet demographers like us – experts who explicitly study population size, composition, and structure – are generally not highly concerned. Why is this? It’s because we understand the strengths and limitations of population projections. Projections can accurately describe how populations will change if we know future birth, death, and migration rates. But demographers are well aware that they don’t have a crystal ball – we can’t fully anticipate economic shifts, political changes, global events, or how future generations will respond to their changing worlds. That’s why the farther we project from the present, the less accurate those projections are likely to be.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢 New Brief Report on the @ccfamilies.bsky.social website!

@amandajean.bsky.social and coauthors explain why alarm over population predictions is largely overblown.

Projections are a useful tool—not a crystal ball.

Read more here:
🔗 sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

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The Society Pages @thesocietypages.bsky.social · Aug 19

TSP has you covered with the latest in public sociology from us and our partners @contexts.org, @ccfamilies.bsky.social, @firstpublics.bsky.social, @socimages.bsky.social. From climate policy & work-family balance to migrant housing & gender detachment, read it all here:

🔗 bit.ly/41bt7G5 🔗

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · Aug 17

When Josh Coleman asks about the most common sexual fantasies… you know I’ve got answers. 😏
Catch his new piece in the Washington Post where I drop some expert spice.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Guest column | I asked my wife about sexual fantasies. Her response changed our marriage.

As a therapist, I would say that talking about sexual fantasies can sometimes be helpful, but how you respond to your partner is important.

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Arielle Kuperberg @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks to Dr. Coleman who mentioned my new book with @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social in this Washington Post Column! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... You can order our book "Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life" here, out in 10 days!: www.amazon.com/Bound-BDSM-U...

Guest column | I asked my wife about sexual fantasies. Her response changed our marriage.

As a therapist, I would say that talking about sexual fantasies can sometimes be helpful, but how you respond to your partner is important.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Aug 20

📢 CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz spoke to @jacobinmag.bsky.social about the resurgence of traditional gender roles in contemporary American society and their deep-rooted connection to neoliberal economic structures and policies.

🔗 jacobin.com/2025/08/gend...

The Trump-Era Gender Wars, Brought to You By Neoliberalism

We’re seeing an alarming revival of archaic gender role ideas, from the manosphere’s remasculinization crusade to trad wives’ rejection of public life. Veteran historian of gender roles Stephanie Coon...

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Aug 20

CCF member @karenguzzo.bsky.social and coauthors examine the prevailing narrative surrounding population decline in the US and why it may not be as calamitous as is often assumed.

🔗 theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Aug 20

CCF Member and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Professor Dr. Pamela Smock discusses the economic constraints millennials face in marriage and childbearing--particularly when it comes to having more than two children--in an article for Business Insider:

🔗 www.businessinsider.com/millennials-...

The millennial case against having baby number 3

Many millennial parents stop at two kids. Some would rather have fewer kids to have more resources and more time together.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 CCF Co-Chair @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social shares her public comment on the U.S. Dept. of Education’s proposed Title IV regulations, calling for better support for students navigating transitions. 🎓👶

Watch here: youtu.be/jKX2YGKLLQk

CCF Co-Chair Arielle Kuperberg's Comment on U.S. Dept. of Education's Proposed Title IV Regulations

YouTube video by Council on Contemporary Families

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Jun 18

Ongoing NIH & NSF cuts are terminating hundreds of grants midstream; gutting longitudinal studies, decimating labs, and threatening a generation of scholars. The future of socially impactful research is on the line. Read via @greatergoodmag.bsky.social: greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life

Everything we offer at Greater Good is based on scientific research. Now that work is being threatened.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Jun 12

This #FathersDay, flip the script: give your time. A new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief by Daniel Carlson & @pettsric.bsky.social shows that when dads share childcare & housework everyone wins: better relationships, healthier kids, and happier dads. Read more here: sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Father’s Day Brief: A Gift for Dad that Benefits the Whole Family

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Richard J. Petts @pettsric.bsky.social · Jun 12

Think differently this Father's Day. Dads - give yourself a gift that will benefit everyone: more time in household and cognitive labor. See our press release on how to make this year's Father's Day gift keep on giving the whole year.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · Jun 10

This week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social, Ellen Lamont and Teresa Roach tell us the importance of sexual and romantic exploration for LGBQ+ college students.

Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · May 15

Blending families can be tough, but also transformative. In this episode, CCF member Patricia Papernow shares insights on the unique dynamics of stepfamilies. Listen on @buzzsprout.bsky.social: www.buzzsprout.com/757730/episo...

Navigating "Blended Families" with Dr. Patricia Papernow - Linda's Corner: Inspiration for a Better Life

Navigating "Blended Families" with Dr. Patricia PapernowBlending families can be both rewarding and challenging. In this insightful episode, we welcome Dr. Patricia Papernow, one of the world’s foremo...

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