“We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.” Orison Marden

One of the saddest of all statistics on our collective sexual health is about how little time we spend on it, with the average sexual act lasting only 7-12 minutes.

Sexual foreplay is the moments when the arousal mechanism in the limbic brain gets to align with the...

If someone close to you asked you to describe your ideal sexual experience, what kind of encounter would you describe? How would it begin? Who (and what) would be involved? Where would it take place? Most importantly, how would it feel?

For some, the answers to these questions may be easy to articulate. For others, not so much. Being able to voice our deepest personal needs and desires is not...

“It’s not like consent is this big mystery. It’s not about controlling young people… it begins with a sense of responsibility about our own sexual needs that does not hurt or compromise anyone else’s.” – Wendy Strgar

I remember last summer sitting in a room full of 20-something kids, many of whom I had known since middle school. We were working on a project that has since evolved into our Make It...

“We applaud Good Clean Love® for pushing for modern animal-free test methods that are relevant to humans.”  Dr. Amy Clippinger, Director of PETA’s Regulatory Testing Department

Animals are us. And they understand us much more deeply than we often get them.

I was the mother who never said no to another pet. Always intrigued by the wonder that different animals would bring to our home, I would often...

“Fireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art…which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.”  Jan Struther

I still remember the 4^thof july celebration when I was turning 17…the first kiss of the summer just as the fireworks were going off....

Tantra, in spite of its glorified reputation as a technique to give you the most ‘mind-blowing sex of your life’, is actually a centuries-old philosophy based on the principles of masculine and feminine energies in nature. Tantra teaches that all of life – from the pure to the profane – is here on purpose, and that engaging withallof life is the most powerful component of our spiritual evolution....

“..that a boy is, in large part, hard wired to be who he is.  We can’t change who he is.  We can teach him how to develop who he is with confidence, and toward a direction that contributes to our world.” Michael Gurian

There is a surprising truth to the unique love that girls have for their fathers and that boys hold for their mothers. And it is through witnessing this generational love that my...

“Sex that works depends on our being able to trust ourselves, and our ability to trust ourselves depends on understanding who we are and how we relate to the people around us.”  Wendy Strgar, Sex That Works.

It bodes well for my new book, Sex that Works, to launch on the first day of Pride month. For nearly 5 decades, the LGBT community has commemorated the Stonewall Inn Protest of 1969 each June....

“The real vulnerability is not from taking off our clothes together, but in baring our hearts to one another…”  Wendy Strgar, Sex that Works

“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.” — Thomas Szasz

Although there is no chapter dedicated specifically to effects of masturbation on health in my new book Sex that Works, I refer often to why self-pleasure is so essential to moving towards a healthy relationship with pleasure itself. In fact, sex...

“The simple act of being completely attentive and present… is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.”  Sharon Salzberg

Mother’s Day has always been a difficult holiday for me. As a daughter who struggled most of my life with my mother’s lackluster attention for me and as a mother who overcompensated for all the things I longed for in childhood but was often overwhelming for my own...

“If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second” – Edward Bellamy

I was turning 33 the year that I could not get pregnant. My previous pregnancies were not first timers but having unprotected sex whenever we wanted made the trying more fun. But this time, by the 8^th or 9^thcycle we had tried everything that had worked before – herbal teas, lying in bed with my legs up the...