A question of authority One afternoon 25 years ago, I found myself on a witness stand [...]
Posts Tagged ‘desire’
Slow Sex in Manhattan
“I want to know what became of the changes We waited for love to bring. Were they only the fitful dreams Of some greater awakening? –Jackson Browne, The Pretender The cultivation of sexual mindfulness One rainy Friday afternoon in mid-summer, I traveled uptown to speak with Nicole Daedone, a former [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Juego
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Eleventh in a series of articles loosely based on the new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam Eros, self-love, and the New York Times In 2009 an article by Daniel Bergner appeared in the New York Times Magazine concerning new research into women’s [...]
The woman in the mirror
Tenth in a series of articles on the new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam “Being desired is very arousing to women.” Marta Meana, quoted in A Billion Wicked Thoughts, p. 110. Every little thing she does is magic In a typical romance novel aimed at [...]
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 [...]
Same bed, different dreams
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7, via Creative Commons. Eighth in a series of articles loosely based on the new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam. “Same bed, different dreams” – traditional Chinese proverb The big sex discoveries 50 years ago by Masters and Johnson concerned how the physiologies of male and female [...]
———- Sex and the High Octane Woman ———- A conversation with Dr Sherrie Bourg Carter
Thanks to Sherrie Bourg Carter, Psy.D. — author of the new book, High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout (2011, Prometheus Books). – for permission to reprint this interview from her blog, High Octane Women, on PsychologyToday. The interview is part of a longer article, Sex and the High Octane Woman. ___ Dr. Carter: Most high-achieving [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
