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 thought it was the best thing she’d ever heard.” No matter how rich they are, they groan just […]
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 much more. Sex, we have been led to believe, is as natural as breathing. But in fact, contends […]
“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 about pornography in the context of the sixties, and history, and in 2017 […]
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 sexual selection … stupid Christoper DeGroot wrote this essay during the political debacle known as the US Senate’s Kavanaugh-Blasey-Ford hearings, and he […]
[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 of strangers and then waking up the next morning leaving as if […]
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, hollow romance, desperate love and raw human need. This book was part of the kick-down-the-door, 20th century vanguard […]
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 written by a guy with a first name, Zaron and a III after his last name has […]
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 hearts and minds of the conversations about everything from feminism and the decline males […]
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 hypocrisy of sex: Will it never end? Published in 1748, Fanny Hill provides a historical perspective on the hypocrisy hidden […]
In 1971, Gloria Steinem said, “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” Steinem’s positioned the issue of abortion as a gendered power struggle, according to which the act is seen as controversial only because it’s something women do. Insofar as it’s possible to imagine a world in which men were the ones […]
Women literally cannot afford to make the messy mistakes we see in the long arc of a lot of a storied male athletes’ careers, and they rarely get the payoffs. Excellent article on how there’s a double standard for women in so many facets of our society. This one highlights sports and the different level […]
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession. “I’m a Baby Boomer, and apparently in my day we were having a lot more sex than they are today!” – Helen Fisher, American anthropologist. Both young people and adults are having less sex than […]
Remember the Katz’s Delicatessen scene from the movie When Harry Met Sally, when Estelle Reiner said, “I’ll have what she’s having!” Well one of the items on your menu should be staying in the moment, whether you’re giving or receiving, because it is a huge aspect of enjoying the act, which is why sex expert […]
Thanks to HBO’s “the more naked people, the better” policy, Game of Thrones explored some boundary-pushing sex scenes—and not all of them are without controversy. But the show’s *best* sex scenes aren’t the ones that are simply controversial. They’re the ones that are gorgeously filmed, sex-positive, and a break from the norm. Here’s the best […]
To put it mildly, she’s concerned by much of what she sees, especially when it comes to hookup culture and one-night stands as made easy by internet dating sites like Tinder. With a new documentary hitting theaters, Ask Dr. Ruth, the good doctor reflects on her journey from Holocaust survivor to sex guru — and […]
As STD rates rise, researchers are looking to reinvent the most reliable disease-preventing contraception. “The narratives need to be changed so we can accept there’s a major part of sex that’s about pleasure …” – Robert Gorkin, University of Wollongong, Australia. Condoms have roots stretching back to 3,000 B.C. and today research, funded by […]
How pretending to be a horse helped me explore my own humanity. “I stripped down to a bra and panties, and Cowboy fitted me in a leather body harness with an attached tail and a head piece with a mane.” Empowerment has been my guiding principle as I’ve explored BDSM. Especially when I’m being submissive, […]
It’s pretty simple. Do you know what women want in a man or how to become the guy she constantly thinks about? To be attractive in a woman’s eyes, you have to learn how to connect with her first on a level many men don’t know how to reach. So many women think, “If he […]
There are so many sex toys and so little knowledge – or willingness to explore – but these 17 selected by Esquire certainly cover a good range, and as they say, “The one thing men often forget is that pleasure can come (pun intended) in a lot of different ways.” From prostate massager and cock […]
“I don’t know what it is, but I’ve noticed that if there’s an event with nakedness, the majority of people who turn up will be older guys.” As a journalist writing about weird workshops and unusual classes I’ve covered cuddle parties, rope-binding, naked yoga, and tantra, to name but a few. On the surface, these […]
This is the question that researchers want to address in their inter-disciplinary Research Topic ‘Birth.’ “Discussing issues around birth is crucial because of the dramatic scientific advances that are taking place …” – Dr. Kath Woodward. In many societies, childbirth is highly medicalized, with practitioners and midwives intervening to manage the safe delivery and health […]
Women experience the world differently, and men don’t get it. The #MeToo movement is not about a bunch of powerful men being named and shamed. It’s about a systemic issue – an acknowledgment that sexism, discrimination, harassment and abuse are everyday, omnipresent factors in their lives. [Perhaps the show was cancelled because of our ingrained […]
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 Too many. And we need many more women to drag these myopic, knuckle-draggers into modernity – reality. Denying climate change is bad […]
