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...
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'...
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...
Margaret Wade, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 3:30pm
"Sexual healing" is more than the name of a pop song that might get you laid. In recent years, sexual healing has become a true healing modality for numerous serious practitioners. Non-medical...
Midori, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 12:30pm
Are you a good sexual citizen of the world?
Yes, I believe we can be better sexual citizens—and it has nothing to do with how accomplished of a bedroom performer you are or how cultured (or...
Paul Krassner, Friday, August 6, 2010 - 9:00am
To read Part 1 of this 1962 interview with an underground abortion provider, go here.
Q. Do you find that many patients, after an abortion, have feelings of guilt or regret?
A. Yes, I generally...
Paul Krassner, Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 3:22pm
The following interview is a very important piece of history. When Paul Krassner first published it in the June, 1962 edition of his underground newspaper, The Realist, the Roe v. Wade decision was...
Jiz Lee, Friday, July 30, 2010 - 5:50pm
I can't say enough good things about Lyon-Martin.
Lyon-Martin is where I've gone for my personal gyno visits, and where I've gone with poly lovers for STI testing. It's at the heart of one of my...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:00pm
Yes, absolutely: Chubby people need—and deserve—love. Sure, an unhealthy obsession with weight and dieting has taken its toll on many a person's health. I'm aware of studies that show that...
Eve Minax, Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 4:50pm
Recently Eve Minax welcomed Barbara Carrellas to her parlor in San Francisco to discuss Barbara’s Urban Tantra training course for professionals seeking to use tantra as part of their their own...
Megan Andelloux, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 1:57pm
The Holiday season: a time to gather and schmooze, to swap stories and drink. When this writer wasn't partaking in the traditional eggnog-enraged family fights, I was able to hang with a few...
Megan Andelloux, Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:20pm
P
eople often ask me, with unsettlingly wolfish zeal, to share my "weirdest" stories from working as a Gynecological Teaching Associate. They want to know the most grotesque, pervy, horrorshow...
Megan Andelloux, Friday, November 20, 2009 - 12:37pm
There was a time in my life when I didn't want to have sex… at all. Being a sex educator, this presented some challenges. Was my work a farce? Was I a phony? If I didn't want to screw around,...
John Leavitt, Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 9:44am
How Sex Works:
Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel,
and Act the Way We Do
By Sharon Moalem
Harper Collins
26.99, 288 pp.
Back during the beginning of railroads, many stations had a book lending...
Megan Andelloux, Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:02pm
Many people hold a deep respect for my work as a gynecological teaching associate (GTA)—or at least they do once they find out what that means, exactly. GTAs are the women who use their bodies...
Megan Andelloux, Friday, October 23, 2009 - 10:42am
The doctor put her fingers in her ears…"La, la, la, la, la, I don't hear you!" Her colleague chuckled, cleared his throat and suggested that I move onto other more "palatable...
Charlie Glickman, Monday, October 19, 2009 - 3:45pm
As some of you may know, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a document produced by the American Psychiatric Association. It serves as the official list of how we...
Megan Andelloux, Friday, October 9, 2009 - 2:07pm
"This has nothing to do with sex."
—City of Pawtucket town clerk's office
After my column a few weeks ago, I left many of you...
