Have you ever tasted something and needed a second taste to decide if you liked it or not? I was recently out at a restaurant with a friend and we traded tastes of our food. While the initial sample of their entree was ok, I could tell that I needed a second taste to decide […]

There are lots of things we can do to make the world a better place. We can reduce our consumption of irreplaceable resources, we can develop our capacity to bring compassion to our relationships, we can support people in crisis or need- there’s plenty to be done. And there’s one thing that I think has […]

Sex addiction is a slippery slope, but perhaps not in the way you might think I mean. One of the big difficulties we have in talking about sex addiction is the lack of clarity around what we’re talking about. People get into habits or get hooked on all kinds of things: shopping, food, drugs, sex, […]

Following up on my post What Do You Want?, I think it’s important to think about how we think about pleasure. Our relationship to pleasure is the foundation that shapes how we decide what we want and how to talk about that with someone else. I doubt that it’s a surprise to anyone when I […]

Via About.com:Sexuality OK, so maybe not everyone geeks out about vibrators as much as I do. It’s one of the hazards perks of my job after all. And after years of talking about how people use vibrators based on anecdotal evidence and customer feedback, it’s great to have some numbers. According to two new papers […]