Out From Under

Are you female? If so, your orgasm is not essential, you know.
Are those fighting words?
If I were hearing those words from my sex partner, they sure as hell would be.
But if they’re coming from a scientist, a female scientist, and she’s talking in evolutionary terms, not relational, not personal? (This post is inspired by her [...]

“Gravity control is a matter of time.” That’s what their tag-line says, repeated with great confidence at the bottom of each page on the site. I’m not a scientist, so I can’t evaluate its content. As a writer I can say it reads like a grade-B informercial or high-end spam. I’m dubious.
But the idea of [...]

I type as I sit with my feet in a basin of warm water. After I’m done here, I’ll be giving myself a pedicure. This is all part of a decision to pamper myself at the end of a harried week. The next six weeks will be a long stretch of still more harried. So, [...]

I once wrote a post elsewhere in which, among many underwear options, I mentioned the thong. In this case, it was a man-thong (posing pouch, banana hammock, call it what you will) and I poked a teeny bit of tongue-in-cheek fun at it.
Holy crap, some people are seriously passionate about undergarments.
Thongs (for male or female) [...]

All you need is love!
Love is a many-splendored thing.
Love makes the world go round.
How many more of those could we come up with? Love, love, love. We talk about it a lot, we sing about it constantly. We read about it, write about it, seek it in our daily lives. Some people seek it more [...]

Guaranteed sex. Required. Promised, even. Every day. Every single day, come hell, high water, or headaches.
Good idea? Bad idea?
Two couples, each experiencing a bit of a marital lull, each came up with the same solution: daily sex for a pre-determined period of time. 101 days for one couple (the Browns, Annie and Douglas), and a [...]

The Middle Ages. Time of feudalism, of the rich and the poor, and nothing in between. Time of strong church presence in society. If you’ve ever watched Monty Python’s Holy Grail — happy peasants frolicking in sun-drenched fields with inept but well-intentioned knights trotting about on horses?
It was nothing like that.
The Middle Ages: no plumbing, [...]

I knew it would hurt. I’m not an idiot. I picture the procedure (as described in fairly graphic detail by a helpful girlfriend). It’s obvious you can’t have that happen without pain.
However — and here I haul out that tried-and-true test of female fortitude — I have had three babies. More to the point, three [...]

In 1492 (if memory serves me) Columbus discovered America.
What a time of discovery, the Renaissance! A resurgence of art, music, architecture and literature, the like of which hadn’t been seen in western Europe for several hundred years. Sculpture, painting, gracious buildings, symphonies, poetry, essays. Political and philosophical thought moved in bold new directions. Science blossomed.
And [...]