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!

“I do not ask to know,  I do not ask to see,  I ask only to be used.”  -Sufi Prayer

Today is my last day of my last year of the forties. Tomorrow is the first day of a new decade for me and so it seems only right that I start with the beginner’s mind. These last weeks of my 49^thyear have been a jumble of success and pain. I have been recognized outwardly as a success by large groups of...

“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”  -Voltaire

Orgasm transforms our physical bodies into a vessel of energy. Our cellular physical boundaries fade as our bodies become the vehicle that transports us into experiences that connect us to universal energy, our spiritual source. Studieshave confirmed that as many as one in twenty individuals experience a...

I don’t know why I get so turned on by the things I do, which are so weird I am not even going to say what they are.  I have this same fantasies over and over again.  In fact, I can’ t even get turned on at all when I block my mind from thinking of this fantasy.  Then I just feel nothing.   I am so embarrassed I would never tell my partner about it.   What should I do?

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This year, Good Clean Love would like to announce their first annual “Disguises of Love” Costume Contest! This Halloween, send us your photos of you or you and your sweetheart in your most creative costume. The winner will receive a 4oz bottle of Indian Spice love oil to keep those nights spicy and warm all winter long. Send your photos to ana@goodcleanlove.com by November 7th and we’ll announce...

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”  –Madeleine L’Engle

Growing up your orgasmic potential is where the meaning of maturity gets really interesting. Befriending and relating to our erotic selves is a lifelong process that expands our relationship to pleasure and matures our access to and experience of orgasm. Like millions of other women,...

by Anastasia Strgar

Over the weekend I attended a seminar about how to revolutionize education in American schools. In this seminar, the speakers discussed the institutionalized nature of the American school system- how the average new teacher quits after 5 years, even sooner if working in inner city schools surrounded by children who know the names of different types of pot or guns before they...

“The only real voyage of discovery exists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”  -Marcel Proust

I have lost all of my routines. All the good habits that anchored my days like regular mediation and my ability to write daily have collapsed in the face of deep and abiding pain. Our pain and suffering is the greatest teacher we have in this life. It makes us listen more closely to our...

By Dr Tammy Nelson

Many couples have trouble finding the energy to keep up an exciting sex life. Stress, exhaustion, kids, boredom – they can all lead to lack of enthusiasm in the bedroom. One way to recharge your love life is to make a date for sex. Carve out a time for sex in your schedule and put it on your calendar. Make it the same day or night every week. Does that sound spontaneous? Not...