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Yoga, Aging, Intimacy & Sexuality

Touching is a vital human need and an essential ingredient for healthy relationships. Studies have shown that without touching, many animals – including humans – will die in childhood. Being … Continue reading

July 3, 2010 · 19 Comments

Men, women, sexuality and jealousy

The evolutionary view of jealousy is that men are particularly concerned with a mate’s sexual infidelity, and women are particularly concerned with a mate’s emotional infidelity.

November 23, 2009 · 6 Comments

Earthlings seek loving compatible partners

When we buy into gender based stereotyping we are buying into dehumanizing each other, because both men and women need and want the same things in long term relationships.

August 21, 2009 · 7 Comments

The Beauty Pageant Disease

Beauty contestants are victims of a need for fantasy made flesh. What supports the image of attractiveness is our willingness to have them perform as masturbatory props.

May 4, 2009 · 13 Comments

A Week of Love

It is so easy for couples that have been in relationship for some time to get to a point where they begin to take one another for granted. It was time to recreate intimacy and we finally decided enough was enough and devised the “week of love” plan.

April 30, 2009 · 13 Comments

US support for sexual and reproductive rights

On April 1st, 2009 the U.S. government decisively broke from its recent past [under the Bush Administration] by reaffirming its “deep commitment” to “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the protection and promotion of reproductive rights” at the 42nd Session of the Commission on Population and Development, at UN headquarters in New York.

April 7, 2009 · 10 Comments

Love the one you're with

My husband and I were best friends for a very long time before we became intimate.  Ours was not a relationship based on being swept off our feet and becoming … Continue reading

February 10, 2009 · 58 Comments
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