If you have seen the Broadway show Avenue Q (or its equivalent somewhere else), you’ll get the reference. (It’s a terrific show by the way and I highly recommend it, but it’s very explicit! As a matter of fact my 18 year old son — with whom I’ve had a number of extremely explicit conversations …
Continue ReadingAbstinence on college campuses.
The New York Times magazine had an article on the new “trend” in abstinence on college campuses. They don’t look so new to me. I am constantly curious why people can’t just feel free to make their own decisions about their sexual activity without turning it into a cause of sorts. Well, come to your …
Continue ReadingLichen planus and vulvodynia.
I just read a moving and sad article in Self Magazine about lichen planus and vulvodynia. A young women talks about her vaginal pain and how it has shamed her and ruined her sex life. Vaginal intercourse became excruciatingly painful and none of her gynecologists could see any problem and so everyone thought it was …
Continue ReadingWomen’s sexual egos can be a bit fragile…
I am a staunch feminist. I really am. So I’m having a little trouble with what I’m about to write, but I think it’s true so I’m gonna go for it anyhow. I think women’s sexual egos are more fragile than men’s and I think women get much more easily put off and hurt when …
Continue ReadingLet’s get real…
Okay — so here is a great video from YouTube. (Many thanks to Rosa Lynne for forwarding this great clip.) First it will make you chuckle. Then it will make you think. Maybe it’s time we didn’t fall for all the hype and glitz the media tries to sell about sex. Also, maybe it’s time …
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