The V-Word

Noel Biderman, CEO, Ashley Madison shares his thoughts in avoiding infidelity, offering valuable relationship advice. Visit Saturday at 9am PST to listen to the full interview. https://gclstatic. com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Noel-Biderman-Preview-Podcast. mp3Noel Biderman, CEO, Ashley Madison shares his thoughts in avoiding infidelity. Effective communication in relationships is a key aspect of building trust in a relationship and maintaining healthy relationships. . Noel Biderman, CEO, Ashley Madison shares his thoughts in avoiding infidelity, offering...

 “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” -Sophocles

Yesterday, I interviewed Neil Biderman, the founder and CEO of Ashley Madison, the online affair portal that boasts 19 million profiles in 26 countries. Every day, the business of cheating generates 26,000 new users and over $91,000. His empire, built on what isn’t working in human intimacy, is booming. Our conversation was lively; he was...

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” -French proverb

A couple of weeks ago when I was in a training at the Ceres Project they told us that they spend 25% of their time appreciating both what they have accomplished and the incredible amount of volunteer time, donations and good will that allowed it to happen. I was seriously struck by the 25% number and started to feel a little guilty about not being...

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every ending is a beginning.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never been a good quitter in life and so it is not surprising that my relationship to endings is challenging. Still, this midyear cycle is always poignantly full of them with school year endings, graduations and all...

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

I have been making love with the same man for some thirty years, and although I can honestly say it has gotten amazingly and increasingly better over the decades, it is important to add that this improvement was in direct proportion to the work and willingness we brought to growing up sexually. To be fair and honest, my...

Last week when I was immobilized from an emotional neck injury that required me mostly to lay on my back, to move slowly with great attention and to embrace how painful living in a body can be, I learned a few things that I feel determined to hold onto now that my body is fully functional. The first and most important lesson is the utter and complete sense of gratitude I have for all the millions...

Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, on jaguars, trekking through South America and love.

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Stop Female Genital CuttingThe deep abiding mistrust of female sexuality makes the world go round. For us in the West, we know this space as an inability to orgasm, the loss of desire and the fear of getting too close. But in the cultures that make up Africa and the Middle East this mistrust holds a razors edge over the genitalia of millions of young girls. In these cultures, just retaining the physiological capacity for pleasure makes one unclean, unmarriageable, and unable to take their place in their community. This required and brutal rite of passage, often referred to as female genital mutilation or female circumcision, has been performed on more than 140 million women living on the planet.

I have been with the same partner for many years and have tried to make our relationship work, but it seems like the longer I am with him the worse I feel about myself. He makes fun of me when I say what I think and then thinks I am ridiculous because “I can’t take a joke.” We used to have some good conversations but now I can almost never find the right time to talk about anything. I don’t want...