The Buzz!
Yes, dear readers, just because we can… I want to initiate something new called: What’s the Buzz? This is a repository for the fun and bizarre.
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“Pleasure is Holy”
— How These Latinas Broke Free From Purity Culture By Jessica Hoppe The story of how I lost my virginity — a tale I long held onto — was a lie. A fiction as false as the construct itself, I fabricated the narrative to please my boyfriend. Before we got together, he expressed that my …
How to Overcome Religious Shame in Your Sex Life
By Lindsey Ellefson If you were raised to see sex and sexuality as a source of shame and embarrassment, you might notice that such feelings tend to linger, no matter how educated, open-minded, and open-legged you consider yourself today. If you come from a religious background, it’s probably even worse. Fortunately, many religious leaders and …
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How to Make Sex More Dangerous
Refusing to provide children with medically accurate sex education isn’t ideological — it’s negligent. By Andrea Barrica I cried the first time I saw a naked man. As a young woman growing up in a conservative Catholic household, I couldn’t even look at my own genitals, and thought I would go to hell for masturbating. …
‘Sex Invades the Schoolhouse’
Fifty years ago, panicked parents helped spread sex-ed programs to schools across the country, even as panicked critics mobilized to stop them. By Conor Friedersdorf [E]arlier this month, The New York Times Magazine published “What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn,” a feature that probed the frontier of sex education: a 10-hour course for high …
LGBTQ kids are missing out on sex education—and it’s up to schools to change that
by Ana Valens [L]ast year, California officially mandated LGBTQ history lessons in public schools, vowing to teach “the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans” and their impact on both the state’s and the country’s history. This was a victory for LGBTQ rights, because it’s a rarity; in most states—in all but nine to …
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Are you getting any closer? A pocket-sized primer on female sexuality
By Clarissa Fortin Stay curious between the sheets, friends. Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality by Sarah Barmak (Coach House Books, 2016; $14.95) If it weren’t for Sarah Barmak’s Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality I might have gone for years of my life without ever finding out what my …
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My Complicated Relationship With Religion and Sex
By Amy Mackelden Religion and sex have been intertwined for thousands of years. Religion often inspires guilt about sex. That guilt needs to go away. I was raised Christian, which involved Catholic school, Baptist church and consecutive nights at Bible study. The recurring message throughout all of the teachings was that sex is wrong, wrong, …
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REVIEW — Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
In celebration of black history month. The best way to destroy a culture is to deny, suppress, or appropriate that people’s history. A culture without its art, without its myths, without its heroes will soon wither and die. For millennia indigenous peoples all over the world have suffered this kind of cultural rape at the …
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My Sex Positive Doctrine
Have you ever wondered about the term, sex positive? [I]f you’re like me, you see it all over the place, especially on sex-related sites. I confess I use it way more often than I should. It’s become one of those industry buzzwords that has, over time, become so fuzzy around the edges that it’s now …
Celibacy vs. Abstinence…There Is A Difference
Name: Richard Gender: male Age: 26 Location: Duluth MN I’ve been practicing periods of celibacy and the way that I practice celibacy is by not ejaculating. I’ll still have fornication with my girlfriend and things like that but without ejaculation. My question is that I notice that when I end a period of celibacy by …
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Review: An Intimate Life: Sex, Love and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner
Hey sex fans! I have another swell sex-positive book to tell you about today. Anyone who frequents this site will already be familiar with my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Cheryl Cohen Greene. If ya don’t believe me type her name into the search function in the sidebar to your right and PRESTO! Not only …
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Tricks Of The Trade – Part 2
Today I continue the series I started on Monday. You will remember from Monday that a friend of mine, who is writing a book about male sexuality for women, asked me if I could be her go-to-guy for a bunch of questions she had about pleasuring a man which she wants to include in her …
Add Some Buzz To Your Fuzz
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Hey sex fans! It’s Product Review Friday! And this week we feature yet another innovative product from the creative folks at Perfect Fit Brand. And when PFB sends us products to review we know we’re in for something special. As you all probably know the Perfect Fit Brand is responsible for The …
Another review of my book
Another review of my book, this time in marvelous E-zine — Oysters & Chocolate. Click on the O&C logo above to view the interview. ———————————————————————————————————————————
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