OFF THE BEAT: Learning to be a sex nerd
From Erica Chase at The Daily Californian: I am a nerd. About everything. I over-research anything I decide that I want to do. I exhaust the resources on the Internet and then move on to books if I still want to know more. When I started having sex, I started doing the same ...
5 Ways Conservatives Attack Sexual Freedom
By Kim Huynh It's not just religious conservatives in this country who are infringing on our sexual freedom, it's political conservatives as well. There was a great post this week from Amanda Marcotte at AlterNet entitled "Why is Sean Hannity So Mad You're Having Sex? 5 Ways Conservatives Attack Sexual Freedom" . 1. Turning contraception into ...
The great debate: Should women ever fake an orgasm?
Samantha Brett at The Sydney Morning Herald challenges psychologist John Aiken to a debate on whether or not women should fake it. Samantha: When it comes to communication between the sexes, I'm all for honesty. But when it comes to being truthful about whether or not you've had an orgasm, suddenly things aren't so cut and ...
Do Beautiful People Have Beautiful Sex?
By M. R. It is safe to say that the notion of beauty differs from place to place and from era to era. But what of Erotic XXX, does that differ from place to place and era to era? One would tend to believe so, which brings me to asking you this question: Do ...
Why 8 year olds should start learning about sex
Those Brits could be on to something. From Jane Fae at The Guardian: According to a survey run on the Netmums parenting website, the majority of parents believe children should start learning about sex and relationships when they are eight years old. I can hear them already. The shocked and outraged tones of the other "moral" ...
10 secrets women wish you knew
From Romy Wilde at iOL: Do you find women hard to read, especially in bed? If so, here's a list of 10 sex and relationship secrets that women wish men knew about them… and if they did, it could make sex a whole lot better. 1. She wants to be French kissed Long, deep ...
The joy of comfort sex
From Ian Kerner at CNN Health: Sex with a spouse is like ordering takeout from your favorite Chinese restaurant: Sure, you know what you’re getting and there’s no need to ponder the menu, but the meal is still consistently yummy and generally hits the spot. The virtues of comfort sex are vastly underrated. ...
The Chemicals of Care: How Self-Compassion Manifests in Our Bodies
A piece yesterday from Kristin Neff at HuffPost talks about the physical and mental health benefits of showing ourselves compassion through mindfulness and loving-kindness (what many Buddhists refer to as metta) practice: In my work I have defined self-compassion as having three main interacting components: self-kindness, a sense of common humanity and ...
Sometimes Sex Is Better Alone
I read a post today on The Stir by sex educator and tv personality JamYe WaXman, who I had the pleasure of interviewing a few weeks ago at an LA sex convention: I've always been a number one fan of sex toys, having reached my first orgasm after mail-ordering my first vibrator. This ...
SO WHAT if romance novels are porn?
Great article from Salon today responds to the recent claims that bodice-rippers, cliterature and pornography breed destructive relationships. BY TRACY CLARK-FLORY Hardcore pornography has long been the target of religious opprobrium -- but this week the criticism shifted to another realm of personal fantasy: romance novels. An article on Utah's ksl.com warned that just ...
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