What Kind of Lube Should I Use? - Good Clean Love

What Kind of Lube Should I Use?

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!

 

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Learning to Feel – In Sickness and in Health… - Good Clean Love

Learning to Feel – In Sickness and in Health…

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein

I was watching the Warriors get killed in game 4 when suddenly I felt a lump develop in my left ear. It was the middle of the 2nd half of the game. I was fine in the first half of the game and then suddenly I wasn’t. Throughout the evening, my ear...

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Pride Month Fun Facts: 5 Interesting LGBTQ Insights - Good Clean Love

Pride Month Fun Facts: 5 Interesting LGBTQ Insights

June is Pride month, a nationwide celebration of the contributions gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people have made to our lives and culture. We wanted to learn more about gay pride history, so did a little Google self-educating. Here are some interesting bits of information on the history of pride month:Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan.
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Learning to Feel: The Stanford Sexual Assault - Good Clean Love

Learning to Feel: The Stanford Sexual Assault

“I was not only told that I was assaulted, I was told that because I couldn’t remember, I technically could not prove it was unwanted. And that distorted me, damaged me, and almost broke me.” –Stanford Rape Survivor

Sexual assault is so common that it occurs every two minutes in this country to one in six women (and one in 33 men). Until this week, it’s rampant existence has remained largely out...

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What does it mean to learn to feel? - Good Clean Love

What does it mean to learn to feel?

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For me, learning to feel means learning to relax.

Sometimes when I feel rushed or busy, I try to pull myself away from the edges of my body, of my life, into a narrow zone where nothing, especially emails, can reach me. I’m protected there, but I’m also contracted and tense because trying to block things out. I feel like I already have too much to do — experiencing my own sensations would be too...

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Learning to Feel - Good Clean Love

Learning to Feel

“The whole world is you, yet you keep thinking there is something else.” -Hsueh-Feng

Lately, I have been taking a class with one of my all-time favorite spiritual teachers, Sally Kempton, about tapping into the pulsing vibration of the universe. She recently shared a story about her teacher, the well-known guru Baba Muktananda, about when he was visited by some Franciscan monks. The monks said to...

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The San Francisco LGBT Center Ð and why we do cause marketing - Good Clean Love

The San Francisco LGBT Center Ð and why we do cause marketing

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June is Pride month, which means that cities all over the nation are hosting events to celebrate sexual diversity and equality. At Good Clean Love this month, we are donating 10% of proceeds from online sales to the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Community Center as part of our commitment to cause marketing.

The SF LGBT Center is an inspiring organization. Their mission is...

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Yam Lube: Homemade Personal Lubricant Recipe Guide - Good Clean Love

Yam Lube: Homemade Personal Lubricant Recipe Guide

A few months ago I got an email from Jane Fonda through an introduction from one of our investors.  She closed her note: “Can you help? Love Jane. ” Of course, I can help.  So I sent products and catalogs, answered questions and researched yam lubes. For any fans of Grace and Frankie, the story of two older women whose husbands, long-time law partners, leave their wives for each other, you will know why I was trying to learn about Say Grace Yam Lube. Actually, we had gotten calls about organic yam lube, which it turns out is not really made of yams, but yam extract which is a natural estrogen replacement.
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The 4 Best Benefits of Masturbation - Good Clean Love

The 4 Best Benefits of Masturbation

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

Of all the sexual acts on the planet, masturbation leads the way as not only the most commonly practiced and safest ways to have sex, but also as the one that most frequently and reliably ends in orgasm. Not terribly surprising when you consider who...

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Is Masturbation in a Relationship Healthy? Explore Insights - Good Clean Love

Is Masturbation in a Relationship Healthy? Explore Insights

It’s been over 20 years since May was named National Masturbation Month by a group of hip sex stores in response to the firing of then Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders for suggesting that masturbation would be a healthy addition to educational curriculum. It was a reasonable suggestion given the cloak of shame and secrecy that masturbation has long carried, being derided and not considered “real sex”. And yet, solo sex is, without question, the most common of all sexual acts on the planet and arguably one of the safest. Masturbation has long been referred to as the cornerstone of partnered sexual capacity.
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