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| After almost ten years writing about how sexuality is talked about by the mainstream media I know which publications and websites to avoid and which to read. Most of the time when there's sex in the New York Times it's in the fashion section and I know I shouldn't pick it up. Sometimes, like this week, I can't help myself. ~ Cory |
| Gender, Desire, and the Impoverishment of Heterosexual Privilege in the New York Times
About half way through writing about this piece I describe the article this way: it's like trying to reproduce a pointillist master work when all you have is finger paints. Most therapists are remarkably ill equipped to explain or describe human experience. You wouldn't think that was the case, but here it is again. | How Can I Worry Less and Enjoy Intercourse More?
An About.com reader writes, "I haven't had a relationship that included heteronormative sex in almost ten years, The last time I tried it with a partner it hurt, so we stopped. Maybe it's a lube thing. But sometimes I wonder if it could be that my hymen was never fully broken. I'm hoping that I'll soon be taking the plunge again, and I'm wondering if you have any suggestions about making it less of a big deal." | When You Want More (or Less) Sex Than They Do
Sex drive discrepancies, the therapeutic term for when one of you wants sex more or less than the other, are common. I think we start by looking to the world around us and how it informs our expectations and actions. But if you aren't also talking with your partner about what's going on, making change will be difficult. | Sexual Intimacy Is...
Is it an ingredient of good sex? A result of it? Is it a measurable activity or an experience that's impossible to describe. It wouldn't matter if we all had exactly as much of it as we wanted, but we don't. Which calls on us to at least try and define it for ourselves. | |
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