2015: The Sexual Year In Review

Against all our efforts to make it so, time is not linear. It's important to mark time with rituals like New Years, but it's a mistake to confuse our need to make sense of something with the thing itself.  Which is one reason why the job of a sex educator can often feel absurd and Sisyphean.  

But I’m hardly immune from the desire to make sense and mark time (my  knees are making it impossible for me NOT to do that) and however you think about time, wherever you are, I hope that you are as safe as you can be and as near to love as possible. Two more days until there’s a whole new year to greet. ~  Cory

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us 2015: The Sexual Year In Review Against all our efforts to make it so, time is not linear. It's important to mark time with rituals like New Years, but it's a mistake to confuse our need to make sense of something with the thing itself.  Which is one reason why the job of a sex educator can often feel absurd and Sisyphean.   But I’m hardly immune from the desire to make sense and mark time (my  knees are making it impossible for me NOT to do that) and however you think about time, wherever you are, I hope that you are as safe as you can be and as near to love as possible. Two more days until there’s a whole new year to greet. ~  Cory Cory Silverberg Sexuality Expert Sex and Gender Activists and Artists We Lost in 2015   Each year I share the stories of some of the activists, educators, and artists who dedicated their lives to sexuality and gender.  These are people who don’t usually get the big obituaries, but we would do well to remember what they did when they were with us. READ NOW Top Ten Sex Questions of 2015   It’s a completely unscientific exercise but this time of year I like to look back and see which sex questions seemed to stick most with readers.   It’s a skewed sample, but for what it’s worth here are the most popular sex questions of 2015, follow the links to get the most popular answers. READ NOW Writing Your Sexual Story   When poet and philosopher George Santayana wrote that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” he probably wasn’t thinking about sex.  But I’d argue that it applies to our sex lives as much as anything, and while it might be uncomfortable or painful to look back, it’s hard to know how much past events are controlling you without thinking about them at least a little. READ NOW Should the Past Stay There?   I’m dating a girl I’m really into and think it could be serious. We’ve started talking about our sexual pasts and I almost told her about a few drunken fooling around situations with other guys. I’ve never told any of my girlfriends about it, but I’ve also never been this serious about a girlfriend before.     READ NOW Featured Articles • The Four Biggest Marriage Fails • Questions You MUST Ask Yourself Before You Leave Your Marriage • 5 Ways to Check That You Have Time for a New Friendship • 10 Things Not to Do If You Want to Make Friends at Work • New Year's Sexual Resolutions • Don't Bother Trying Marriage Counseling Unless You Do This • Did Bess and Harry Houdini Have a Magical Marriage? • 8 New Year's Eve Date Ideas Advertisement About Sexuality  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Sexuality newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.