Good Clean Reads

I’ve never really had a long-distance relationship. Sure, I was pen pals with a guy stationed in Iraq, but I’d never actually met the guy. Needless to say I am not skilled at the phone sex or sexting thing. 

S1:E14 | Sept. 3, 2020 | 43 min.Understanding the reality of your fantasy can help you understand your emotional needs in intimate situations. Author and social psychologist Justin Lehmiller joins...

S:1 E:13 | Aug. 27, 2020 | 37 min.Follow Wendy's discussion with nationally board-certified Clinical Sexologist and world-renowned Master Sex Coach Patti Britton. In this episode we discuss with Dr....

The height of summertime heat is plum season for me. Almost 20 years ago, we planted a plum tree inside a newly built garden deer fence, a gift for my 40th birthday. The plum tree now has come to define not only that space, but also the sweet golden plum meaning of summer. It is now close to a decade that the over-abundance of plums have become my annual ritual of decocting homemade plum brandy. 

Kink 101 with Author and Activist Tristan Taormino | S1:E8

There is no time like long summer nights to cultivate the uniquely, profoundly human capacity for pleasure, especially sexual pleasure. Our pleasure response transforms our relationship to each other and even to life itself.  Focusing on pleasure not only changes how we see our opportunities for intimate connection but also invites us into a deeper relationship with our erotic soul.

S1:E7 | July 16, 2020 | 31 min. Wendy talks to poet, teacher, and storyteller Mark Nepo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening: Having the...

Most people accept breathing as an autonomic process that doesn’t require much thought. It turns out that, although our breath will rise and fall without our direction, adding a little agency and consciousness to our breathing goes a very long way in improving our health.

I have had sex thousands of times with the same man. We have been married for close to four decades. Our sex life has been the blessing that has kept us working through the challenges and that, even now, makes our shared grief digestible. Of all of the skills I have developed over the years of building Good Clean Love, sustaining our sexual life, growing up erotically, and sharing intimacy over the span of decades is why I keep writing these columns.