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The Second Sex

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ - 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book's contribution to understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success An epochal fiery work that…
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Sex Diaries: The Woman Searching for the Lust She Didn’t Have Before

"He was a pretty good kisser but I have a feeling that despite his 6-foot-2 frame, he has a tiny dick. That’s a deal-breaker for me. My ex-fiancé had an average, “eh,” cock and it always made me want to cheat on him (I never did). I’d…
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The Breast

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book’s contribution to understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success Be careful what you wish…
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What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ - 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book's contribution to understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success "The whole female sex seems…
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Vaginal steaming? WTF is that?

Doctors say there's no evidence it works—and it may even be dangerous. But Gwyneth Paltrow of Goop fame says it's a good thing, so millions are gettin' steamy. But there's no evidence it makes a damn bit of difference. So vagina owners beware:…
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Legal Seduction – it might be legal but it’s boring

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book’s contribution to  understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success It's a story – sort of.…
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The Sexus of Henry Miller

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book’s contribution to  understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success (3 minute read + a Sexus…
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Everyone should become a sex scholar

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) based on the contribution to understanding and enjoyment in love, sex & success) Straight A students in sex are rare – most of us are C students, at best, and many…
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Confessions of a Male, Feminist Sex Addict

Image: Interior of a brothel in Naples, Italy, photographed in January, 1945   From Quillette, by Eric Frances McKillen (pseudonym), published February 11, 2019 "Sex without companionship corrodes the soul. I know this because it happened…
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Does size matter? Depends …

on the size, structure and purpose of what you're referring to There's much talk, much research, much myth and plenty of bullshit, but in the end, research shows that "size matters" to women. But wait, it not just about the penis. Hang on guys,…
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10 Unfiltered Sex Tips for the Best Action You’ve Ever Gotten. Plus the best sex toys according to experts.

When it comes to knowing what makes your partner tick in the bedroom, tutorials on "mind-blowing sex positions" only get you so far. Stimulating and gratifying sex is all in the timing, the communication, and spontaneity, according to Dr. Bea…
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My Epic Journey to Find the “Skene’s Gland,” the Mystical Source of Female Ejaculation

"The Skene's fill with fluid during sexual arousal and if stimulated during sexual arousal, sex, or masturbation, can actually release this liquid." The question is: Can squirting be self-taught? I decided to find out once and for all ...…
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Did you know you can get your vagina high? 

Cannabis and coitus. Weed lube is a thing– and it’s legal! More and more women are turning to cannabis to reawaken their ladybits and make things interesting in the bedroom.  From The Quick & Dirty podcast, Hilary and Sandra talk to…
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Bad sex in fiction – wins a prize?

As ardent writers of sex in fiction, we carefully note this Literary Review of Annual Bad Sex in Fiction awards. It's the worst lines in fiction under the criteria of 'poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description'.…
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Four factors that make a company a great place for women

Spoiler alert: Just because you have women in leadership doesn’t guarantee that women at all levels are going to be supported The Wharton Social Impact Initiative released a report that provides a plethora of specific findings from hundreds…
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Safe-Sex Lies

photo: NYT archives The lies we tell ourselves about sex never change By MEGHAN DAUMJAN. 21, 1996 (10 minute read) January 21, 1996, Page 006032 Buy Reprints. The New York Times Archives This is a digitized version of an article from The…
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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

Lora Gottlieb wrote this essay in the New York Times Magazine in 2014 (20 minute read) "Power — and the act of balancing it — is a common topic with the couples I see in therapy. They’re eager to talk about leveling the domestic playing…

Maggie Siff and the Women of Wall Street

The Billions star visits the New York Stock Exchange and talks fashion, finance, and the “Fearless Girl” statue. Maggie Siff (Wendy Rhoades on Billions) takes a serious role in real-life in supporting women – the lack of – in corporate…
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Boys on the Side

Is the hook up culture toxic or beneficial for women? By Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, September 2012 (15 min. read) The hookup culture that has largely replaced dating on college campuses has been viewed, in many quarters, as socially corrosive…
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Too much peril, not enough Dash

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book’s contribution to  understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success "She was still the…
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The Importance of Male Ejaculation for Female Sexual Satisfaction and Function

From: The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2019 "This is the very first study to explore the importance of male ejaculation volume and intensity for women’s sexual functioning. Data are of self-report nature and ejaculation…
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Are men disposable? A new study

Original by Maria Kouloglout, Quillette, June, 2019 A 2016 study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science found that people are more willing to sacrifice men than women in a time of crisis and that they are more willing to…
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The Billionaire’s Innocent – Review

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ - 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book's contribution to  understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success "Zair groaned, and Nora…

Twelve Rude Revelations About Sex

Excerpt from Alain de Botton's book. Written for Psychology Today, last reviewed June 2016 (10 minute read) In order to transcend the discomfort that sex typically stirs, you may need to radically rethink desire, marriage, fidelity, and…
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Pornography – an old perspective that’s still fucked up

"Ever since our Puritan Republic became a gaudy empire, pornography has been big business for the simple reason that freedom of expression is joined with the freedom to make a lot of money." – Gore Vidal, 1966 Vidal wrote a marvelous essay…
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Sex and ‘Mean Girls’ Politics

Original by Christopher DeGroot, Taki's Magazine, published September 21, 2018 "Women damage rivals' reputations but do not report explicitly disliking them."  – report in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology A comment: It's…
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What It’s Really Like to Have a Threesome

[A chat with three women – twenty-six, twenty-two and forty] When it comes to threesomes, there’s a lot of planning involved to make it happen. If you were to go by TV or movie standards, it’s rarely the wordless kissing of a tangle…
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Classic. Erotic. Timeless. This is Downton Abbey without the legacy money, phony peerage and domineering dowager, but still with the inbred arrogance. It's much closer to the real story of British hypocrisy in class status, uninhabited marriage,…
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Love, Sex, and Other Things You Might Find At The Airport

Must-read rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Must-read ratings (1♥ – 5♥) are based on our opinion of the book’s contribution to  understanding, enjoyment and entertainment in all things related to love, sex & success I was thinking, any book…
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Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?

Original article by Toby Young, published May 24, 2018 in Quillette Abstract and link to published Oxford Academic research follows the article. A comment: Size matters In the age of "big data," this resarch is big because it goes to the…