Out From Under

Ever heard of sympto-thermal?
Not a kind of underwear, no. Birth control, you know — pregnancy avoidance. Back in the day, when I was tired of polluting my body with fake hormones, wearied by the diaphragm and the goo and too cheap to buy condoms — and, let it be said, when a pregnancy would not [...]

Heterosexuals want to have sex with the opposite gender. Homosexuals want to have sex with the same gender. Equal-opportunity bisexuals enjoy sex with either.
And that’s it, right? One, the other, or both?
Nope. There’s a fourth option. A fourth orientation: asexual.
Asexuals, according to Dr. Cynthia Graham, a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, are those [...]

picture: Carlos Arias for www.tantrachair.ca
What is the first thing that you notice about that picture? Well, okay, there are lots of things to notice. But after their perfect skin tone (Photoshop, how we love thee), his chiselled abs and rugged 5 o’clock shadow and her luscious blond locks, and the total and complete lack of [...]

Remember that list of states which prohibit (or interfere with) the sale/ownership of vibrators? It’s one shorter, as of last Tuesday, February 12.
In 1979, it became illegal to buy, sell, advertise, or even give or lend sex toys in Texas. (This last gives me some pause. Just which of your stash would you be willing [...]

It’s Valentine’s Day, and a young woman’s heart turns lightly to thoughts of … chocolate! Well, mine do, at any rate.
Some out there make a great show of eschewing Valentine’s Day. Sophisticated and oh, so worldly-wise, they rise above the dictates of crass commercialism. Their love is real and pure and true. Or maybe it’s [...]

Got a guy in your life? I’ve found him the perfect Valentine gift. It will have him puffed up with pride, assured that you share his priorities, that you’re totally in synch about what’s really important, that you admire every aspect of his manliness.
Every aspect, every bulging vein, every wrinkle, every pulse …
Introducing “Clone-a-Willy“.
Yes, [...]

Monogamy and infidelity. Just like the old song says about love and marriage, “you can’t have one without the other”. Well, you can’t have infidelity without the assumption of monogamy, at any rate. Can you have monogamy without infidelity?
Stats on the rates of infidelity vary widely. (Because people lie about this, don’t they?) Men stray [...]

How to give a cat a bath. Go follow that link, watch the clip, then come back.
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Okay. Been and gone?
Isn’t she just the cutest little thing?
But what exactly is she doing? Besides giving a cat a bath, that is? Because really, that cat-bathing is smoke and mirrors. Is this porn? Is this exploitation? Is it [...]