Jan 15, 2012 Tim, first of all let me say I’m really sorry about your team’s [...]
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An open letter to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow — about virginity and other important matters
Jan 15, 2012 Tim, first of all let me say I’m really sorry about your team’s loss to the Patriots. What can I say? They were the better team. I’m sure you’d agree. But now that the season’s over, let’s talk about more important things. Let’s talk about sex. I understand that like [...]
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 [...]
Some aspects of women’s (hetero)sexual desire
Ninth in a series of articles loosely based on the new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. Sex and sensibility Romance literature, according to the authors of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, is the most popular form of fiction in the world. It’s estimated that the total yearly revenues [...]
Still further along the road less traveled
“When my beloved first stands before me naked, all open to my sight, there is a feeling throughout the whole of me; awe. Why? If sex is no more than an instinct, why don’t I simply feel horny or hungry? Such simple hunger would be quite sufficient to insure the propagation of the species. Why [...]
What’s so new about the new non-monogamy?
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 via Creative Commons “Monogamy Lite” For those of you who missed “Open Marriage,” the ethical non-monogamy movement of the 70’s: Ethical non-monogamy is back. Not that it ever actually disappeared. But it seems to be making news again. Last year the New York Times bestselling book Sex at Dawn (extensively reviewed [...]
Eros and technology: Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times
Blackberry love “A couple of weeks ago, I replaced my three-year-old BlackBerry Pearl with a much more powerful BlackBerry Bold. Needless to say, I was impressed with how far the technology had advanced in three years. Even when I didn’t have anybody to call or text or e-mail, I wanted to keep fondling my [...]
Wolf love in The New York Times
Vampires in love I remember years ago going to see Frank Langella in Dracula on Broadway. The only thing I can recall about the play now is the scene just before the curtain that ended Act I: As I remember, there were just two people still on stage – the Count and his female [...]
What turns men on, really?
(Fifth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photocredit: Pedrosimoes7 ) As simple as it gets “Wolfgang likes to look at images of female derrieres. [...]
The elements of desire
(Fourth in a series of articles discussing A Billion Wicked Thoughts, a controversial new book by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam that uses the internet to study human sexuality in some new and unusual ways. Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7) There’s an app for that Much like your average personal computer, the human brain [...]
The strange new science behind “A Billion Wicked Thoughts”
A shocking discovery It’s not so unusual these days for a woman to discover pornographic pictures on her husband’s computer. But the images that one wife found recently were especially shocking. Her first thought when she found them was, “This is the end of our marriage.” Her next thought was, “This is the end [...]
