Amy Marsh, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 4:15pm
It was an ugly death for such a pretty boy. Neighbors complained of the smell. Police clambered into the canyon and soon found the corpse, rotting in a heat wave, a distilled water bottle between...
Amy Marsh, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:06pm
After the fall of original sin, Adam and Eve wore aprons of fig leaves to cover their naughty bits. In Western art the effect of this biblical story is so pervasive that we accept the convention of...
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...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 12:01pm
We could call it POK for short—a support group for parents of kinky teenage and adult children. Of course, if it were called Parents and Friends of Kink, we could then call it P-FOK. "Hey, hon, I’m...
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...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 6:47am
Ecosexology is to sexology as ecopsychology is to psychology. Ecosexology merges environmental consciousness with an expanded inquiry into human sexual behavior. But unlike ecopsychology,...
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...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 10:00am
Implications for Modern Times
World history, as seen through the eyes of a sexologist, could be viewed as a massive, continuous stomping of sex-positive people and cultures by sex-negative ones....
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 9:00am
Restoration. Sovereignty. I strongly associate these words with sexual healing. But these words also ripple through me today in a special way. Today, July 31st, is Restoration Day in Hawai’i,...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 10:00am
I'm in the Puna district of Hawai'i island—and all night long the neighbors were having noisy sex. Group sex. Lots and lots of sex in the fitful humid night. So here I am, sleep deprived at dawn,...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:34am
Master Sunyata Saraswati has said that Tantra is “not for wimps” and I can certainly agree. My own path has been anything but wimpy. It was precipitated by a spontaneous ten-month long kundalini...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 6:00am
I took my thirteen-year-old son and his friend to lunch today and, as a sexologist, it is my firm (get it, firm?!) belief that this should entitle me to at least five continuing education credits...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 9:17am
Imagine the Venus of Willendorf as a giant Macy’s Parade balloon. As the prehistoric goddess soars aloft we can appreciate her form and the logic of her proportions. Now imagine inflatable breasts...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:21pm
“Next year, I want a float,” I yelled in Dr. Zientara’s ear.
“What? I can’t hear you!” he yelled back.
I took a deep breath and e-nun-ci-ated, “I WANT A FLOAT!”
“Okay,” he said. (Wow, that...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 12:35pm
Pirates are like Texas. Everything is bigger: hair, frock coats, weapons, amount of leather in a boot... and lust. Everyone aspires to a lustier (and bustier!) swagger. Voices boom, beards billow,...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 8:13am
When I tell people I’m working on a pirate column, the first thing they say to me is, “Arrrr.” So I say “Arrrr!” back. I suppose they could have said, “Ahoy” and I could have said, “Avast, ye...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 7:14am
(Or: Everything I Needed to Know About Sex, I Learned from Science Fiction.)
I have a special fondness for Countess Cordelia Vorkosigan, who has got to be one of the best science fiction heroines...
Amy Marsh, Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 8:51pm
“...the sensations of being flogged do not feel painful. In fact I tend to wear my handlers out, they can't take me over the edge. The nerves on my back are so overstimulated from just wearing a T-...
