Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Sixth in a series based on the new book, Fifty Shades [...]
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Why Fifty Shades leaves women wanting . . . more
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Sixth in a series based on the new book, Fifty Shades of Grey. Can’t Fail Recipe for Erotic Romance 5 cups Twilight 1 cup Marquis de Sade 3 cups raw sex — finely diced Yield: Fifty Shades of Grey Two virgins It’s well known that Fifty Shades [...]
Mass Erotic Choice as a Social Organizer — from Beatlemania to Fifty Shades of Grey
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Fifth in a series based on the new book, Fifty Shades of Grey. The questions never change Working as a sex therapist, I have more than a passing interest in what the culture happens to be serving up about eros. Part of it is simply curiosity about what [...]
Fifty Shades of Sexual Innocence Rewarded
This article is the fourth in a series based more or less on the new book Fifty Shades of Grey. It continues a discussion begun in the previous article Sex and Fifty Shades of the City about the darker side of sexuality in popular culture. An eighteenth century blockbuster Pamela, published in 1740, was [...]
Sex and Fifty Shades of the City
A strange thing, mystifying There’s an image that has haunted me for years. It’s the opening credits of Sex and The City on HBO. Here — watch it with me. Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sara Jessica Parker, is walking in downtown Manhattan. We see her face first — brash, charming, flirtatious. Then, [...]
Sex therapy NYC — What you still might not know after reading Fifty Shades of Grey
Reader beware After reading Fifty Shades of Grey, you might think you’ve learned something about men who wish to sexually dominate their partners. In particular, you might conclude that being a sexual Dominant probably means one had a very bad childhood, as Christian Grey did. And that like Grey one has problems loving, being [...]
Sex Therapy NYC: Fifty Shades of Grey
One quiet night It is 22 year old Anastasia Steele’s first night alone with Seattle billionaire sex-god Christian Grey, in his high-tech mansion in the sky. Page 85. She is about to experience sexual climax, for the first time in her life. Let’s hear her tell it – “Let go, baby,” he murmurs. [...]
An open letter to just-signed New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow — about virginity and other important matters
March 22, 2012 Tim — First of all, congratulations on your upcoming move to New York City. It’s a great town, and I’m sure you’ll love it here. As an athlete and a religious man, you will be a role model to many young people here. So I’m writing to you today [...]
The year in clinical sexuality, 2011
As we get ready to leave 2011 behind, I would like as always to express my gratitude to family, friends and colleagues for your support and encouragement over the past year; and to my patients for your trust and confidence. May we all merit much happiness in 2012. Here’s my list of 2011′s [...]
Lessons from the world’s largest sex experiment
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Mapping the sexual mind This year saw the publication of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a book that among other things discusses its author’s independent analysis of 55 million sex-related Google searches. Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, the two computational neuroscientists who wrote A Billion Wicked Thoughts, appear to [...]
SexualityResource at the movies: Twilight Breaking Dawn
A secret code As most careful readers of the Twilight series know, there is a literary work that gets mentioned in each of the later volumes that explains the story. For New Moon, we have Romeo and Juliet. That’s easy. For Breaking Dawn, there’s The Merchant of Venice. A courtroom drama, where a woman [...]
