The V-Word

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” -Bertrand Russell

I have come to believe that much of what parades as sexual dissatisfaction between couples is actually a manifestation of fear. Most people through no fault of their own have had little education concerning their sexuality or their access to pleasure. Laden as the topic is with shame and...

“I have understood the population explosion intellectually for a long time. I came to understand it emotionally one stinking hot night in Delhi….The temperature was well over 100 degrees and the air was a haze of dust and smoke…The streets were alive with people. People eating, people washing, people sleeping, people visiting , arguing and screaming…. People begging. People defecating and...

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes the storyline and problem solving that can and often does dominate life can consume it. We can’t see the light changing in the sky or hear the birds in the morning. We miss out on lighthearted exchanges happening around us because we are too consumed with the...

“Fantasy is all about potential,” writes award winning erotica author and editor Kristina Wright. Combining her education in humanities and her curiosity about human sexuality, she is the perfect guide in exploring written fantasies in the form of erotica. As author and editor of several anthologies including Fairy Tale Lust and Dream Lovers, her work invites us all into the freedom to explore the...

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”  -Oscar Wilde

I know my marriage is an anomaly. Happy marriages are rare. For as much as we all long for a relationship that we can grow old in, we don’t really believe in them. I think this might be because many people confuse the early “in love” experience of relating with the ongoing effort of creating a love...

Discover the power of sexually liberating yourself by listening to the courageous and bold voice of Pamela Madsen, author of  Shameless: How I Ditched the diet, Got Naked, Found true pleasure…and somehow got home in time to cook dinner. Listen to how you can tap into your deepest desires, get over your body image and fill yourself up with real pleasure of the body.  Pamela’s fresh and humorous
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“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” -Sasha Azevedo

Lately I am learning how to not be a barometer for my children’s experience. I am unwinding the long-growing tentacles that have connected their experience to my own. Instead, I am looking for the teachable moments where I can be helpful, where my own experience can offer something useful. I am looking for the...

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ” -Martin Luther King, Jr

Rarely is the idea of creating a peaceful world described as an action verb- with all the same understanding and intensity that we employ in waging war. The idea of peace has this almost fairy tale feel, like it is something that would just descend on us or that...