The V-Word

In anticipation of Wendy Strgar’s forthcoming new book, Sex That Works, we’re sharing an excerpt from Wendy’s first book, Love That Works: A Guide to Enduring Intimacy, which is based on her years of writing on Making Love Sustainable. . Critics have called Love That Worksan essential handbook for the daily practice of learning to cultivate the renewable resources of loving relationships and...

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert Heinlein

Momentously. Fantastically. Stupendously… We are now all in it together. Hooray! Everyone can now be legally married- if only the right to marriage was sufficient for sustaining marital bliss. But alas, making a life together that works over time remains one of the elusive goals for our...

Pornhub, the largest online porn site, wants to be the first to make porn in space, and they’re crowdfunding $3.4 million from Indiegogo to pay for it.

On their Indiegogo page they write,

One way or another, there are many elements about life in space that need careful consideration and research…especially sex. As such, Pornhub is teaming up with top ranking adult studio Digital Playground in...

 “Only connect.”  -E. M. Forster

I grew up as part of the “Me Generation” and although I didn’t understand its implications at the time, in hindsight I sometimes wonder how our collective singular focus on our own needs and desires impacted the lifestyle and relationship choices which we currently find ourselves a part of. Was it the “Me Generation” that fostered the ease and frequency of...

June’s been a good month for press for Good Clean Love! Both Cosmopolitan and Mic.com highlighted how great it is that sexual health is becoming a family business and more importantly, a conversation that is perfectly okay to have among family members. Didn’t catch it? Check these out:

First up, Founder Wendy Strgar’s daughter talks to Cosmopolitan about what it was like growing up in this very...

My father has always been a quiet, introspective man. Though he says little, the things he says say a lot. His presence around the words he chooses to speak say even more. But my father is a lot more than just quiet and introspective. He's generous. He's kind. He's hardworking and he's curious about the world. His curiosity is one of the life lessons he has imparted to us, showing the value of continuous learning.

We describe our food as having flesh, making clear its libidinal qualities–we put this flesh in our mouths, publicly take it into our bodies, make more of ourselves by its nutriment. Our food’s flesh is made of what it has digested–water, sun, minerals in the soil, other flesh. Meat has flesh; so does fruit; fruit can be “meaty,” and a well-cooked mushroom might be meaty, too. Eggplant, tomato,...

“…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

Boys are different than girls and, fundamentally so, from the moment of conception. Beginning with earliest brain development, evolving into core function, what makes the male...

“I’m not doing this to be interesting. I’m doing this to live.” -Caitlyn Jenner

I have been following Bruce Jenner’s transition since it first appeared in People magazine months ago. Emerging from the Kardashian empire, it seemed like just another press stunt, but the recent Vanity Fair cover of Bruce’s total transformation into Caitlyn at age 65 is actually nothing short of stupendous courage....