Out From Under

I believe we have to become less squeamish. I believe we need to enjoy our sexuality, not in some macho “lookit how sexy I am”, notches-on-the-bedpost way, but a simple, contented, strong and confident resting in our femalehood. I believe we should take satisfaction in our bodies, no matter what their size, shape and idiosyncracies [...]

“He is a boy, and he has a penis. I am a girl, and I have a vagina.”
Standard conversation for three-year-olds. The boy/girl distinction is a biggie at this age, and some nice, careful, conscientious mommy has given her the correct terms. Except she hasn’t, has she?
What the child is talking about is the stuff [...]

Someone out there thinks I have a penis. Quite a few someones, actually. Moreover they firmly believe it’s insufficient, or at the very least, it’s malfunctioning. Often both.
They’re an interesting peek into the world of male insecurity, these Get a Bigger Dick ads. First of all, it is universally accepted that anything less than — [...]

Here’s the funny thing from last week’s study.
Gottman and Levenson also found that when gay men initiate difficult discussions with their partners, the partners are worse than straight or lesbian couples at “repairing”–essentially, making up.
Okay, that bit’s not particularly funny, but hang on, it’s coming …
No one is sure why gay men are worse at [...]

Upon weathering his own painful breakup of his relationship of seven years, John Cloud tackled the research — couple research on homosexual relationship. Among other interesting tidbits, he discovered this:
John Gottman, a renowned couples therapist who was then at the University of Washington, and Robert Levenson, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, [...]

Attractive girl, 26/157, graduate in Dentistry from UK University and working in London inviting proposals from Professionals working abroad. Caste/region no bar.
What is marriage all about, anyway? Why do people do it? (Those who are allowed, of course, but where I live, all unmarried adults are allowed.)
I married for love the first time. [...]

There are sex shops in every city, of course, but while they’re steadily improving as sex becomes more mainstream*, most of them still earn their seedy, grotty, porn-ish reputation.
(*”sex becomes more mainstream”: aren’t I just the mistress of irony?)
Of those which rise above seediness, the majority have gone from tacky-sex to tacky-commercial. Big box sex [...]

Belgium has had gay marriage since 2003, the second country in the world after The Netherlands. Canada came third, in 2005.
In 2005, Belgium saw what is perhaps a first: a civil union of three. Belgian marriage cannot comprise three partners, but apparently a civil union can.
Although it comprises one man and two women, it’s not [...]

Some while back I read a discussion of a study which had investigated and compared the sexual patterns of American vs. western European women. (Sadly, that’s all the detail I can recall; I’ve tried to find the study with no success. So you’re relying on my memory here, you poor things.)
What I do remember is [...]