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Today was a satisfying day on the Delta.
Rice is the principal form of food for half the world. And we saw its entire life cycle in just a half day.
We started by taking a boat to a small village. We gingerly walked the edges of a rice field...
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The Mekong Delta was already hot and humid at 8:00 on a winter morning.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
After driving south from Hue I checked into the Golden Sands Hotel in Hoi An, and was ushered into a suite about 35 feet from the South...
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My next two seminars for therapists (and physicians, social workers, and other clinicians) will be May 1 and 2 at the beautiful Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Once again, I’m an invited speaker for the annual meeting of the California...
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The grownups are really after young people lately, trying to contain all that darn interest in sex.
We’ve seen a dozen cases around the country of prosecutors trying to jail teens for sexting (“To prove that sexting can ruin your life, we’re...
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Massachusetts state representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein has introduced a bill making it a crime for anyone over 60 to pose nude or sexually for a film or photo. The person taking the photo—whether a lover, artist, or commercial porn maker—would...
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If you had told Socrates or Queen Victoria that one day there would be an inexpensive little gadget that would prevent pregnancy while allowing you to enjoy sexual intercourse, they would have said “No waaay!”
Well, “Waaay!” That gadget is...
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We’re told there’s an epidemic of teens sending nude photos of themselves to a friend or lover, who then sends it to every other teen on the planet. The original kid then responds with naive surprise and deeply hurt feelings.
Adults typically...
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Each month Marty publishes the electronic newsletter Sexual Intelligence,TM which examines the sexual implications of current events, politics, technology, popular culture, and the media. For an archive of his original articles, lots of Q/A about...
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The 9th annual Sexual Intelligence Awards® honor individuals and organizations who challenge the sexual fear, unrealistic expectations, and government hypocrisy that undermine love, sex, and relationships—and political freedom—today.
Previous...
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I have scars older than Bristol Palin. I have a pair of shoes, several garden tools, and a hundred cassette tapes older than Bristol Palin. You get my point.
You’ll recall that the Palin Kid created a brief moment of bizarre theatre 6 months...
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The Topeka and Shawnee County (Kansas) Public Library’s Board of Trustees voted last week to restrict minors’ access to four books about sex, deeming the material “harmful to minors.”
For my comments on this at the Legal Satyricon—one of the...
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There’s just too many things happening in the world of sex to comment on every single one. Thus, we introduce the Sexual Intelligence Roundup, through which you can follow sex-related events that are fun, aggravating, confusing, or all three....
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I’ve been a sex therapist for 28 years. That’s 30,000 sessions discussing desire, orgasm, and everything in between.
New patients and new friends alike often smile and say “I’ll bet you’ve heard just about everything when it comes to sex.” And...
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Last night I braved the snow, wind, and ice to speak at the University of Cincinnati, part of their Sexploration Week.
The students who attended seemed pretty engaged–almost no one text messaged or snored during my talk. One group who didn’t...
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This Sunday, 100 men in the prime of their lives will repeatedly line up and violently run full speed into each other. For the entertainment of 100 million people (and several million dollars and world-wide fame), they will risk permanent...