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!

“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle

This wisdom has been spoken since the beginnings of recorded human history. The lesson that has been known and passed down by every great leader in history is that it is through the disciplined devotion, work and practice of mastering oneself that we meet our greatest achievements. It is an evolutionary...

“The only thing about masturbation to be ashamed of is doing it badly.” –Sigmund Freud

Whatever else the holiday weekend may offer, don’t forget to honor the fact that May has long been declared national Masturbation Month. Good Vibrations launched the annual celebration of self-pleasure in 1995 to protest the firing of Clinton appointed U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders. Conservative...

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” -Albert Einstein

The best thing about life these days is that I have no idea how a day is going to end up. Believing in possibilities and moving towards every new option and meeting as though it could be a game changer has completely altered...

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Gustav Jung

The remedy is always inside of you. This has become a growing awareness as I have been working to articulate and grow my dreams for Good Clean Love. When I am doing my own internal work and can clearly see what I am intending and feel worthy of it, the...

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” -John N. Mitchell

Today I had the great privilege of interviewing one of the people who has most deeply inspired my positivity quest. Barbara Fredrickson, author of the book Positivity, which is my basic textbook on changing my mind is also the best toolbox I know of for how to increase your positivity ratio and dis-empower the...

Change your thinking and change your life. This week’s enlightening discussion with Barbara Fredrickson, a Psychology Professor and lead investigator at the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (a.k.a. PEP Laba) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We discuss her research and book, Positivity and provide the basic tools anyone can use to make their life and...

“You only get one chance. You have one journey through life; you cannot repeat even one moment or retrace one footstep. It seems that we are meant to inhabit and live everything that comes towards us.” –John O’Donahue

I have been struggling lately, confronted by the reality of an opportunity that I have been waiting for and dreaming about, yet still feel unprepared to carry out. I have known...

“He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger” -Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a sure sign when the day becomes a collection of physical injuries. Today a ping-pong table fell on my forearm, which remarkably held it up and a car door slammed into my ankle with about the force of the ping-pong table....

“For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life seems full of all kinds of events that mark the time indelibly; that I know will soon be remembered by before and after. Some of them, like senior prom and high school graduation...