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 [...]
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 [...]
———- 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 [...]
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Rearch (SSTAR): Presentation of the 2011 SSTAR Consumer Book Award to Sex at Dawn
I just returned from the annual spring meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR). The Society gathers leading sex clinicians and researchers from all over the country and the world, and features the most recent developments in sexual science and practice. As a member of SSTAR’s Consumer Book Award committee, I had the privilege [...]
Edith Wharton and the Nine Rooms of Happiness
Sex and Eros The average adult heterosexual man, in the average relationship with an adult woman, doesn’t ask for so much - and doesn’t have so much to give. He’d like a good meal, a little appreciation for how well he replaced the lightbulb in the bathroom yesterday. Then he wants to be left alone [...]
The Nine Rooms of Happiness: What does a woman want?
What does a woman want? Freud, famously, claimed not to know. In a letter to his student Marie Bonaparte, he wrote, ‘The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ”What does a woman want?”‘ I think [...]
Sexual arousal for its own sake
Simmering: A two minute technique for nourishing the erotic bond between partners. Useful for modern couples for whom the idea of leisure time is a quaint memory, but who’d like to stay in touch. A modern dilemma Recently I had lunch with my colleague Eric Amaranth, and the conversation turned to the subject of polyamory — [...]
Sexuality, simmering, and the B train back from the beach
Photo credit: Pedrosimoes7 A train in motion On the B train, one hot summer Sunday afternoon. I’m bringing my children and a few of their friends back to Manhattan, after a long day at the beach in Brooklyn. There’s a young couple standing near the exit door, sharing an ipod headset. Each with an earpiece [...]
