Today, May 27, 2009, is the first ever World Multiple Sclerosis Day, a day dedicated to uniting MS organizations and individuals world wide in the name of mobilizing a truly global movement to end MS.

As someone who has MS and is also a sexuality educator, my contribution to a new global movement for MS awareness is to work with NSRC to provide the best (U.S. based) resources I know of to support the (sexual) lives of people with MS and those who are intimately...

Last week I interviewed one of the greatest sexuality educators and lifelong learning experts of our time, Peggy Brick.

For over 10 years, Peggy has trained thousands of educators, health care professionals and community advocates about sex in mid and later life and the importance of expanding our concept of “sex ed” to include the entire life-course. She's been teaching sex education across the lifespan since high school over 3 decades ago. Founder of the Consortium on Sexuality and Aging, Peggy is a pioneering, visionary leader whose passion and remarkable ability is revolutionizing sexuality education itself.

In 2003, Peggy, Jan Lunquist and SIECUS produced the groundbreaking book New Expectations: Sexuality Education for Mid and Later Life. I’ve used this book and recommended it for years as one of the most well respected and...

“525,600 minutes…how do you measure a year?

….Measure in love” –Rent

At age 7 I knew that Valentines Day was my favorite of all holidays. Pink was my favorite color and I couldn’t wait to get those ridiculous heart shaped candies, cherry ring pops, chocolates and love notes from my family, friends and….yes, even  my crushes at the time. All of that and I hadn’t yet even discovered my love for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Love, Actually (my two favorite movies), renaissance poetry, bubble baths, fine dining or sparkling wine….not to mention those cheesy valentine’s day cards you get from your pet cats or dogs (God, I still LOVE those!). I couldn’t have yet known then that one day my passion for the love holiday itself would take entirely new meaning because of a new movement called V-Day and another called

Continuing the fine tradition of highlighting innovative sex products (see blogs on Gpod, sex and iPhone, and iGasm), we wanted to highlight a new toy on the market – a cyberdildonics device called RealTouch (caution: explicit content, not work-place friendly). It is also known as a “treadmill for your penis.”  What differentiates this cyberdildonics device from other run-of-the-mill penile treadmills is its ability to sync its action to your favorite porn movies.

The ad campaign features two segments – for straight and gay males. All you have to do is connect the Realtouch to your computer, start your favorite video (presumably bought from RealTouch) and experience near-live action within 5 feet of your computer. Here are some of my favorite features:

• Live out your wildest sexual fantasies while you deepest desires unfold on the screen in front of you.
• Let’s you break all of the rules without breaking any...

I believe in sexual pleasure—yours and mine. From hawking sex toys to telling teens about the clitoris, I have spent my adult years proselytizing on the subject of pleasure. And no wonder; desire and pleasure--especially for women--are the stepping stones to sexual knowledge, rights and justice. For teen women, as Deb Tolman revealed in Dilemmas of Desire, knowing when you want to have sex is the pre-cursor to knowing when you don’t, and helps women assume self-protective behaviors. For adult women, desire and pleasure allow for a more equitable and satisfying relationship with self and others.

So let me say it again. I want you to get off, I encourage you to get off. In fact, go get off right now and get back to me.

Hi. Feels good, right? Which is why it might come as a surprise that I am so angry about a recent study looking at sexual dysfunction in women. Decreased libido=decreased pleasure=not so good, right? Sometimes, but that’s not where the real problem lies.

The study, published in the November 2008 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, aimed to examine self-reported sexual ‘problems,’ such as decreased desire, arousal and orgasm,...