Good Clean Reads

"We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. "-Steve ElberAs a culture, our diet often suffers from the overwhelming demands of schedule and time constraints; we pick up food on the run and call it a meal. Even when we take the time to prepare a meal at home, we often eat it in front of a screen, eating quickly and mindlessly. Taking the time to taste our food is a luxury many of us don't know we are missing.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anatomically the breasts shield our heart. Our breasts are far more than the sexualized female adornments that get most of the attention. They are truly amazing organs, hardwired to some of our deepest sensual response, and designed to nourish and sustain new life.

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While every season brings a certain loveliness for the home, gatherings, and the birds and bees, we’d like to give a pleasant welcome to the Fall romance that comes with the Autumn season and that extra something it adds to love in the air.

As Fall, a proclaimed favorite season, starts appearing on social media timelines, or makes its way to the center of small talk conversations about brisker...

“Only work on stuff you love … when I don’t, I fight with my wife a lot more, I’m snippy with my kid.” Joe Swanberg, creator of EASY

 

Seems like every time I turn around this week, I have been hearing the word “easy”… from my phone which continues to light up with texts from old friends I haven’t heard from in years, “LOL, saw you on easy…”, to the shipping guy at UPS- who suddenly recognizes our...

According to recent research American heterosexual sex lasts only 7.3 minutes on average. What is the rush, people? If we compare sex to dining, Americans are the sexual equivalent of a fast food joint- an ‘In-N-Out’, if you will.

Sex, like food, is supposed to be savored. It should be a four course meal. You don’t just walk into a fancy restaurant and demand your main course. You take your time....

"Ultimately, the desire for a deeper human connection always wins out, for both men and women. " Hanna RosinOne of the questions I've been asked a lot lately is, why are so many millennials having bad sex? Which for the record, is not just true about millennials. However, it is alarming to hear that 44% of women between 16-21 to report anxiety, pain and little interest when it comes to...

In the Western world’s most famous story of forbidden love, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide rather than go on living apart. In Shakespeare’s version of the story, they are thirteen years old, which, along with Shakespeare’s poetic writing, can make their suffering seem like the dramatic stuff of theater rather than life.

But suicide isn’t just a tragedy; it’s also a reality. According to the...

“OK, so I am old fashioned … call me square.” Dr. Ruth

I grew up listening to Dr. Ruth’s frank talk on late-night radio in New York. Back then no one was talking about topics like masturbation or oral sex, and her straight answers to questions I didn’t yet know how to ask were both encouraging and comforting as I waded through the emergence of my own sexuality during my tumultuous days at Baldwin...

Why would you want to smell like everyone else? That's one of the questions we asked ourselves when we started to learn about the dangers of synthetic perfumes and fragrances. By "synthetic perfumes and fragrances," we mean most of the perfumes you see (and smell) when you walk into a department store. In 2015, department stores stocked 1,165 fragrance brands (nearly twice as many as they carried in 2002). But the thing is, 95% of the chemicals in most of these fragrances are derived from petrochemicals.