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!

by Elizabeth Spannuth

When I was going through my divorce about 6 years ago, I realized that I have had a guilt complex for a good portion of my life. I don’t know where it came from, but it’s always been there. I have felt guilty for saying no, guilty for saying yes and guilty for saying maybe. I don’t know why it took me so long to recognize it, but once I did I saw how it had influenced so many...

Welcome to the newest reader-friendly contribution page. Since we at Good Clean Love are always striving to see the good in life and to cultivate gratitude in our lives every day, we’d like you to join us! In honor of our favorite movie, and one of the most obvious movies about small gratitude- It’s A Wonderful Life,we want to hear what you’re grateful for in your wonderful life! Whether it be big...

Join best selling author and sex educator Lou Paget share the secrets of a great sex life which she has learned in her world wide sexual seminars. With a keen ability to listen for the questions under the questions, Lou provides not only the tips and techniques that can improve your sex life right now, but is able to provide the assurances and calm that allow for a deeper look into the mystery of...

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.” -Hafiz of Persia

Gratitude is actually the most basic and simple of all positive practices, but most of us want to complicate the simple; we just can’t believe it is that simple. A recent revelation in my summer of gratitude demonstrated this clearly. It seems so basic as to...

“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” -Oprah Winfrey

I could jump for joy, it seems that finally I have turned the gratitude corner. My persistent focus on finding the grateful perspective on everything is taking...

I believe in passionate marriages, even as more and more books come out in support of the idea that monogamy is nothing but a political structure; I beg to differ. Done right, making love to the same person for decades can be an exploration of depth and surprise that is literally mind blowing. I know this is not the norm in our culture but I also feel it is important to bear witness to the wonder...

by Anastasia Strgar

I’ve been riding horses since I was 8-years-old. Through my tumultuous adolescence, my horse Pegasus stayed by my side, amidst failed friendships, breakups and general teenage angst. Horseback riding became a sort of meditation for me; I could just be myself, and learning how to ride dressage taught me a lot about being confident, expecting the unexpected and facing each...

“I believe that the world was created and approved by love that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.”  -Wendell Berry

Love saves us. Although this line of thinking is usually reserved for religious parables, the truth of life bears out that love is the singular source that enlightens, inspires and guides us to the very...

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” – Cicero

I began the summer of gratitude challenge to learn how to experience the world through the magical filter of thanksgiving. As I have consciously stopped the insidious habit of taking the details of my life for granted and focused on them as gifts, I have become both more joyful and more able to actually...