Good Clean Reads

Lubrication is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make intimacy more enjoyable. And even though our bodies naturally produce lubrication, it isn’t always enough. Hormonal changes, stress, medication, or simply wanting a little more glide are all good reasons to reach for lube!

Lately, all I see is the social fabric shredding around me. It began with one of my oldest therapeutic relationships. This is a doctor I have been seeing for close to 14 years; acupuncture, naturopathic and polarity therapy all rolled into a therapeutic hour of deep listening and honest reflection. I always left his office feeling healed and witnessed. I walked in last week and barely recognized...

Susan Crain Bakos has written close to 2 dozen volumes on the orgasmic experience over the last two decades and believes we express our core identities through our sexuality. Listen as she shares her unique perspectives on the crossroads of life, love and orgasm as well as her no-fail Orgasm Loop technique for achieving orgasm. Susan recently discovered that she is dying of cancer and we discuss...

“What if our kids really believed we wanted them to have great sex…What if they really believed that we want them to be so passionately in love with someone that they can’t keep their hands off them?  What if they really believed we want them to know their own bodies?”  -Al Vernacchio

Taking Sex Education out of the dungeon that it has lived in over the last 30 years is an epic step towards...

“Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.” -Unknown

There is not another single human act that so fully embodies gratitude at its peak as the moments of profound lovemaking. This is where we know most...

For Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman, two of the most beautiful things in the world are food and the human body – not necessarily in that order.  Their coffee table book,  La Figa: Visions of Food and Formexamines the relationship between food, touch and the ingredients that make life delicious. Their project, five years in the making, is a combination of sensuous human shapes decorated in food,...

“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible.  The Life Force experimenting with forms…you for one, me for another.  The Universe has shouted itself alive.  We are one of the shouts.”  -Ray Bradbury

I have been struck by the power of the life force of late. It is a force that animates everything we do, but we hardly recognize it as such, except...

Ever wonder about the increasing popularity of body piercings,  don’t miss this informative and surprising view of the art and science of body art by Elayne Angel who wrote the definitive guide The Piercing Bible. With over 40,000 piercings in every imaginable place, Elayne shares her unique perspective of how body art ritualizes important life passages as well as how it has been practiced...

“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here, right now… with its aches and its pleasure is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, and fully alive.”   -Pema Chodron

One of my favorite movie scenes comes from the old Wim Wenders’ film “Wings of Desire” when Peter Falk is speaking to the air, to an angel he senses next to him. He bubbles...

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.”   -The Bible

The more that I pursue projects that I love, the more that life says yes. I feel like I have discovered a basic precept of success. That really we are moved by what we love and that the...