Food, Body Love and Sexuality (Book Review)

The angst that many experience about their bodies is rampant and real. I know a radically skinny gal who obsesses about her cellulite.  Other friends who agonize about the size of their breasts.  Older women addicted to botox; their youthful counterparts to the gym.  Mothers who resent their childbirth hips; statuesque beauties who stoop.  Too often we stare into the mirror with warped vision, perceiving imperfection and missing the exquisiteness...

Sex with the Supernatural

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 collective fascination with the naughty bits of vampires, witches, succubi and such has haunted man(and women)kind since the advent of storytelling. Kristina Wright catapults upon our fascination with love bites in her...

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, there’s a whole lot of stink we can soak up; of course, most of us like our partners smelling clean and inviting (I’m betting that the Old Spice Guy’s popularity was partly due to our vivid imaginations. Hmm, he smells...

Make Love, Not Porn | Why the Militant Conservatives and Radical Left Are Both Wrong

“For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.“ Naomi Wolf The first time I made love, I just had to show up with my vagina to rock my young beloved’s world. In reality we explored those new fruits with enthusiasm, joy and curiosity, and an equal amount of hormonal horniness. That we were in love and practiced safe sex together is...

Feminism and the Mainstreaming of Sexual Taboos

When it comes to female sexual submissiveness, one assumption is that women who seek lovers to ‘safely’ demean, bound, gag or ‘force’ them into sexual liaisons must be doing so for a variety of less than congenial reasons: a history abuse, low self-esteem, or lack of self-worth for example. Certainly, no self-respecting feminist would submit to humiliating, kinky sex for the sake of pleasure on purpose – or would she? Time and again, that...