Writing Provocative Wrongs..
"Someday, after mastering the winds,
the waves, the tides and gravity,
we shall harness for the Divine
the energies of love,
and then, for a second time
in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire."~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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- Technology, Love and Humanity’s Demise
- On Courtesans, Skin Hunger and Sexual Healing
- When God Created Sex, She Smiled | Sexis Magazine
- Non-Orgasmic Sex on Purpose?
- Voyeur With a Conscious | On Erotic Art, Beauty and Love
- What Does Light Talk About? | Rus Anson Photography
- Tantra Tuesday | Conscripting the Sacred Breast
- Humanity’s Oldest Known Sex Surgery
- Sex with the Supernatural | ‘Dream Lovers’ by Kristina Wright
- Indian Time | Anger Management the Antidote to Modern Living
- The Earth My Own Body I Explored
Author Archives: Tinamarie Bernard
Technology, Love and Humanity’s Demise
Some relationships end without a proper start, leaving us with a memory of someone we wanted to know better, but didn’t. In my case, I met the one who got away in a class that required students to pair up … Continue reading
Posted in Provocations | Culture | Society, Relationships
Tagged ethics of sex, freedom, politics, sustainability
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On Courtesans, Skin Hunger and Sexual Healing
Nowadays, to call oneself a courtesan seems almost blasphemous to the herstorical truth of what that once meant, considering the delight to which Hafiz hints. In this Persian sages words, though pleasure certainly appears had by shy men and women … Continue reading
Posted in Poetic Thursday
Tagged artists & authors, freedom, sensual living, sexual healing, women
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When God Created Sex, She Smiled | Sexis Magazine
Sacred female sexuality, with its feelers in earth-based worship, meets resistance in dogmatic circles. The idea that woman with all her undulating curves and desires can cohabitate with formal religion creates waves of shock and awe shock, and conventional wounds … Continue reading
Posted in Tantra Tuesday
Tagged freedom, religion, sexual healing, sexuality, spirituality, women
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Non-Orgasmic Sex on Purpose?
“And is there anything you would withhold? Some day, all that you have shall be given. The trees give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.” — Khalil Gibran The first time I heard of slower, non-orgasmic … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, intimacy & love, orgasm, relationships, romance, sexual healing, sexuality, spirituality
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Voyeur With a Conscious | On Erotic Art, Beauty and Love
Certain topics conjure up provocative assumptions, and erotica is one such subject; it has informed human sexuality for as long as we could string letters, stories and images together, generating tales of our most passionate selves. So when I … Continue reading
What Does Light Talk About? | Rus Anson Photography
To those with the heart of a poet, our world can sometimes feel increasingly oppressive until we are reminded of simple miracles. When Catholism’s greatest theologian and poet, the Italian-born Thomas Aquinas wrote, he did so prolifically and with the … Continue reading
Tantra Tuesday | Conscripting the Sacred Breast
My breasts became powerful before I knew what to do with their influence, the fullness and fecundity of their development occurring at a time before artificial enhancement was the norm. I angst long before their arrival, much like many young … Continue reading
Posted in Provocations | Culture | Society
Tagged feminism, freedom, sexual healing, spirituality, women
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Humanity’s Oldest Known Sex Surgery
To snip or not to snip is at the center of a resurgent debate, but are we seeing the whole picture? Medical pros and cons are only part of the complexities surrounding this simple procedure, with ‘intactivists’ pitted against those … Continue reading
Posted in Science | Health | Sexual Wellbeing
Tagged men, politics, self image, sexual healing
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Sex with the Supernatural | ‘Dream Lovers’ by Kristina Wright
It’s confession time: I’ve not seen one Twilight movie nor read any of the books. It’s not that things that go hump in the night unaffect me, just that I prefer my supernatural fantasies to run amock more privately. Our … Continue reading
The Earth My Own Body I Explored
“One night as I walked in the desert the mountains rode on my shoulders And the sky became my heart, and the earth – my own body, I explored. Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wisely calculated … Continue reading
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Tagged ecosex, sensual living, sexual healing, spirituality, sustainability
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Polyamory, Monogamy and the Evolution of Love
There’s a deliberation going on in the sex-positive community, and sadly, it underscores just how much work needs to be done to advance the concept of sexual freedom. I’m speaking of polyamory vs. monogamy and the question of whether one … Continue reading
