MgWade, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 11:49am
Here's the deal. I am an ordinary middle-aged (yikes! when did that happen?) woman of middle America. I went to college during the seventies. Everyone I knew tried marijuana; most of us tried lots...
Delilah Night, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 2:07pm
I was 19 years old before I learned that urine does NOT leave the body via the vagina. I successfully repressed that humiliating memory until a few months ago when we began to think about...
Elmo Painter, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 2:13pm
Hello Everyone,
I have an overwhelming need to spread extremely important information to you right now. My hands shake as I type this. More and more stories of gay teenagers being bullied into...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:11pm
September 26, 2010 – San Francisco – Folsom Street between 7th and 12th was packed with leather men and women, kinksters, fetishists, and tourists for the 27th annual Folsom Street Fair. The event...
Midori, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 12:00pm
Some sort of a shift is happening in the general social consciousness about women and kink. For a change, it seems to be a good shift this time.
Albeit a small sampling, my travels and teaching...
Margaret Wade, Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 4:11pm
Women past childbearing age are the ones leading the changes toward a better world all over the globe says Jean Houston. She claims that 85% of the founders of change movements – planting trees,...
Greta Christina, Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:35pm
"It's sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach... and some seeds."
"I swear by almost nothing for breakfast. Mugs of hot water!"
"The other day I realized as long as I'm in this business, I'...
Kamela Dolinova, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 11:58am
Sex at Dawn, the new book on prehistoric human sexuality by Dr. (of psychology) Christopher Ryan and Dr. (of psychiatry) Cacilda Jethá, has already gotten heaps of media attention—with good reason...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 9:50am
Like children, older adults in our society are perceived to be at greater risk for abuse and exploitation, and therefore in need of specialized protection and intervention. Last week I wrote about...
Amy Marsh, Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 3:27pm
Resignation is not consent. Weariness and terror are not enjoyment. What seems compliant is not necessarily voluntary. Symptoms of the Stockholm Syndrome are not equivalent to a submissive’s...
Midori, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 11:52am
What do you see when you look at the world through the eyes of another gender? What’s revealed in the process of shifting between the masculine, feminine or all the other gender variants? With many...
Clarisse Thorn, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 4:23pm
There's been a lot of buzz about male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa lately. Because of the data supporting MC as an anti-HIV measure among heterosexuals, it has gained the support of major...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 2:15pm
During rush hour last Thursday night, an explosion erupted, and fire tore through a 10-acre section of the Glenview neighborhood of San Bruno. My boyfriend, grandmother and I watched, horrified, as...
Delilah Night, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 12:45pm
There's something powerful about a first positive pregnancy test. If the pregnancy is wanted, it is a moment of awe, fear, and triumph. If the pregnancy is unwanted, it is a terrifying sword of...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 10:37am
Move on over, Dr. Ruth! When a specialist in human sexuality says, as Dr. Ruth did recently, "there is nothing new under the sun," it’s time to move on, as she has, to other areas of interest. As...
Theresa, Monday, August 30, 2010 - 1:16pm
Too often, senior citizens in the U.S. experience both physical and emotional indignities. Neglect and elder abuse are topics of great concern for healthcare professionals and social workers, but...
Eve Minax, Friday, August 20, 2010 - 2:35pm
Consistent and clear communication is the key to all relationships, regardless of what any given partnership looks like. In this video interview, Reid Mihalko and Eve Minax discuss some key...
Asher Bauer, Friday, August 20, 2010 - 12:32pm
Late in July, Erin Vaught started coughing up blood. She did what anyone would have done and went straight to the ER. But Erin Vaught didn’t get treated just like anyone else when she went to Ball...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 10:00am
Diluted barium washed across silver leaf creates a muted rosy glow, giving an old world patina to newly gilded furniture. The vapors are also extremely unpleasant and persistent. You don’t just...
