Posted in relationships, sex on Aug 19th, 2008
My friend and fellow blogger Mimi’s most recent post ‘Legacies from the Men in my Life’ got me thinking, not in a general sense but in a sexual one. Funny that. In truth, the men in my life have probably taught me more about sex than about anything else. I’ve always been a self-contained, opinionated [...]
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Posted in relationships on Aug 19th, 2008
And I don’t mean money. I mean culture, understood in the widest sense.
Whatever about the men, intimacy with them put me in touch with a wide variety of microcultures.
I wonder what legacies, if any, they have from me.
* * *
from my first husband
Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Mozart opera; some sense of how a genius thinks [...]
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Posted in feminism, relationships, research on Oct 16th, 2007
Science Daily — Contrary to popular opinion, feminism and romance are not incompatible and feminism may actually improvethe quality of heterosexual relationships, according to Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan, from Rutgers University in the US. Their study* also shows that unflattering feminist stereotypes, that tend to stigmatize feminists as unattractive and sexually unappealing, are unsupported.
It [...]
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Posted in internet, relationships on Sep 24th, 2007
Alexandra Rankin Macgill writes:
Everyone has a friend or two who takes that much longer to respond to emails because they just don’t ever check their accounts, who don’t want to join social networks and who never pop up on IM and gTalk. What happens when you fall in love with someone like that?
A friend in [...]
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Posted in marriage, relationships on Sep 5th, 2007
How does Suzanne Craig, wife of the outed Senator, stand next to her disgraced Potty Liar of a husband at a press conference, and not hurl her guts?
She’s not the first political wife to put on a show. The spectacle of a prominent woman standing by her man, now revealed to be an adulterer— and [...]
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Posted in internet, relationships, research on Aug 24th, 2007
by Regina Lynn
The internet has become a proving ground for trying out relationship styles, and anyone who’s ever done so knows just how serious online relating can become — even if all you intended was a quick look to see what all the fuss was about.
These relationships can and do become the catalyst for drastic [...]
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Posted in relationships on May 31st, 2007
Melinda WennerSpecial to LiveScienceLiveScience.com Tue May 29, 10:41 AM ET
People who are socially dominant and either very friendly or very antagonistic tend to be more sexually promiscuous, according to a new study.
Friendly, warm people may enjoy sharing their warmth with others by sleeping with them, whereas antagonistic people may sleep around to avoid having a [...]
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Posted in dating, relationships on May 20th, 2007
…In a Stiletto Relationship, what you feel is an addicting mix of love, lust, and pain.
Although you know on some level that “the mix” is toxic - and making you feel crazy - it’s incredibly hard to get that person, and the relationship, out of your system.
Why is that?
One of my favorite [...]
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Posted in equality, food, relationships, women on Apr 28th, 2007
With the news I’ve been reading this week about equal pay, and women dropping out of the work force, I offer up this story by writer Candida Korman about the working women who paved the way for us, and who got mad as hell and weren’t going to take it anymore:
“As far as I’m concerned [...]
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Erin Bradley: Miss Information (Nerve)
Em & Lo: Ralphina Macchio: “My boyfriend’s being a crybaby because I can beat him up.”
Judy McGuire: Date Girl: Mizz Manners (Seattle Weekly)
Dan Savage: Savage Love
Cory Silverberg: Lesbian Books are Not a Sleep Aid
Mistress Matisse: Mistress of Masturbation (The Stranger)
Tristan Taormino: The Cum of Alt Fears (Village Voice)
violet blue: Margaret [...]
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By Mike Penner Times Staff Writer
During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning [...]
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Tristan Taormino, award-winning author, columnist, editor and sex educator, is the featured speaker at Barnard’s sex-positive event “Sexhibition.”
The Path to Sexual EmpowermentSulzberger Parlor - Barnard campusTonight, Wed, April 25 - 8pmFREEWhat is sexual empowerment? What does it mean to be sexually empowered? Tristan reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of her journey from law school reject [...]
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Posted in lesbians, love, marriage, relationships, sex on Apr 23rd, 2007
The Great Escape: The Tale of a Recent Divorcée
The Sex Diaries of Six New Yorkers
The Waiting Room: Voluntary Virgins on Why They Like It That Way
What Are You Like in Bed?
Of MILF and Men: The Sexy-Mom Phenomenon
The Lesbian Bride’s Handbook
The Mind of the Married Man
High Infidelity: A True Tale of Friendship, Adultery, and the [...]
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Posted in libido, relationships on Apr 13th, 2007
Helen Boyd (who I had the pleasure of meeting at DO SF) writes:
One woman has a low libido, & comes to raging conclusions about how most women do, too. (sigh)
For the record, for most of the couples who have attended my “Uneven Libidos” workshop (which I do exclusively at Dark Odyssey), just the opposite is [...]
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Posted in dating, nyc, relationships on Mar 29th, 2007
….Spring is here and the restaurants will soon be filled with anxious and hopeful couples, ordering wine, dusting off their most luminous lies, thinking they might finally have found love. Then they will see their dates’ homes for the first time. And suddenly some of them will realize that they cannot be with this person [...]
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Posted in dating, love, men, relationships on Mar 16th, 2007
…With full acknowledgement that men’s tastes in women are as unpredictable as the plotline of “24,” these are some of things that many men value in “the one.”
A Woman with a Passion in Something Other Than HimYes, it’s nice to be doted over. Yes, it’s nice to be pampered. Yes, it’s nice to be with [...]
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Posted in advice, bloggers, erotica, events, feliceshays, jaymichaelson, kinkyjews, lisabethkovitz, nsfw, nyc, philstein, relationships, ronniekoenig, sexbloggers, sexy, waynehoffman on Mar 7th, 2007
Jay Michaelson, Wayne Hoffman, Felice Shays, Lisa Beth Kovitz,
Phil S. Stein, Ronnie KoenigDate: Mar 22 2007Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pmLocation: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St., NYC
Jay Michaelson is an award-winning writer, educator, and student ofcontemplative practice. He is a columnist for The Forward,the chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture,and the [...]
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Posted in advice, relationships, roundup on Mar 3rd, 2007
Erin Bradley: Miss Information (Nerve)
Em & Lo: Ralphina Macchio: “My boyfriend’s being a crybaby because I can beat him up.”
Judy McGuire: Date Girl: Desperado (Seattle Weekly)
Dan Savage: Savage Love
Cory Silverberg: Ruining Sex for the Next Generation
Mistress Matisse: Word to the Wise (The Stranger)
Tristan Taormino: Hard to Swallow (Village Voice)
violet blue: Gay for [...]
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Posted in relationships, sex toys on Mar 1st, 2007
…My job intercepting folks recently split from a date and a favorite sex toy, as well as my own trials deciding where to store and how to transport my own favorites, has allowed me to develop what I would like to put forward as “Best Practice Guidelines for Sex Toy Custody Cases.” While some of [...]
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The trouble with chicks is that I don’t understand them. It doesn’t matter whether a woman is 13 or 55, they all act the same. One minute you’re their best friends, the next you’re persona non grata. Just today I lost a girlfriend because she thinks that I want to steal her [...]
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…We got back to her room and honestly I’d only intended to kiss her. But the way she opens to me, the way she invites me in, every time, at every movement, with every gesture of her body, she doesn’t turn me away, doesn’t close me off, so when kissing becomes making out, making out [...]
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Jessica Guynn, Chronicle Staff Writer
While it may be tough for the middle-aged of Silicon Valley to find a perfect partner, it’s never been easier for the young and the restless in the high-tech industry to make a love connection.
Members of this uninhibited generation can hit the launch-party circuit or hook up with the opposite sex [...]
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Posted in dating, relationships on Feb 14th, 2007
…No one knows for sure, of course, but I have a theory. I think it is the “Speed” factor.
No, I am not suggesting drugs were involved. I am talking about the Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves movie in which Bullock is a bus driver and Reeves is a police officer, and they are trying to prevent a [...]
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Posted in dating, love, relationships on Feb 13th, 2007
Do you have one of those relationship dealbreaker lists? You know, the list that describes the qualities you have to have in a man, along with the qualities you simply won’t tolerate?
If you’ve taken the time to write such a list, I’m impressed!
Now put it away.
Then, being as [...]
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Posted in advice, dating, marriage, relationships, sex on Feb 12th, 2007
1. How To Avoid Feeling Jealous Over Really Dumb Things
2. How To Remember That Wherever You Go, There You Are
3. How To Embrace The No-Fault Breakup
4. How To Have Sex If You’re A Sex Columnist
5. How To Find A Lasting Relationship For Yourself If You’re A Dating Coach
6. How To Get Married While Remaining Single
7. [...]
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