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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

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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

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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

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Goddess Archetypes | Virgin, Witch, Saint, Martyr

Look around and note a quiet and compelling cultural shift. In real time and in conjunction with the apparent demise of societal, political, organizational and communal structures, a quiet revolution is taking place; the resurrection of the divine Goddess, as … Continue reading

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Purity Myth and Other Sexual Deceptions

I still recall the first time I realized that the notions of virginity with which I’d grown up were a whole lotta bull, packaged prettily in pink and spoon fed via messages of false altruism, religion and fear. It would … Continue reading

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What’s Up with Women Faking Sounds of Pleasure?

Twelve-year-old boys are wearing shirts that say, Sexual Lessons, First One Free, and, here’s the creepy part, they actually believe it. When I read a recent blog on the sounds of pleasure by Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste.com, I had … Continue reading

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Pleasure Theory and the Shamelessly Sexual

SexIs Magazine, April 2011 What if everything we’ve ever learned about our basic motivation to have sex — the procreation of the species — is unequivocally wrong? What if making babies is a byproduct of the real purpose of our … Continue reading

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Fearless and Naked over 40 in Youth-Obsessed Culture

“Women over forty have a very clear picture of who they ARE, but a distorted idea of what they actually LOOK like.” – Jillian Todd, photographer One of the best-kept secrets of women’s lives is that as they age sex … Continue reading

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Born This Way? | Postpartum to Orgasmic Birth

“I don’t want him,” I whisper to the wall. On the bed in front of me is my first-born, swaddled in his going home clothes. We’d waited years to have a baby, and now that I am a new mother, … Continue reading

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Scent-uality and Aural Sex | Why Women Go For Beastly Boys

We’ve long known that women are attracted to their mates in part by smell, not just via the subtle nature of pheromones, but man (speaking heterosexually here) in every aspect of his glorious scent. If it’s the one we love, … Continue reading

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Thou Shalt Have Forbidden S-X

“In order for monogamy to work, it has to be ‘dirty.’ If the forbidden is what is exciting, we have to work hard to bring the taboo into our most intimate relationships. If transgression is so titillating, we have to … Continue reading

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