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For the most part, sexuality research focuses its energy on issues pertaining to health and disease/pregnancy prevention, social welfare and policy making. And though all of these issues are of great importance, we sometimes forget the other, more pleasing (and pleasurable!) side of sexuality—good, old-fashioned sex! Sexual activity has taken on many misnomers over the years, with presidential exploits and exposed celebrities causing their fair share of sexual moral panics. But it’s time we turned some attention back to what got us all here in the first place!

Strategies for Staying Sexual After Menopause

Strategies for Staying Sexual After Menopause

When was the last time you heard a joke suggesting that sex invariably goes ever downhill or totally crashes after menopause? Like yesterday? This concept was boldly reaffirmed—without reference to reliable research—at a conference on menopause held by the National Institutes of Health in 2005! So, if you ask your doctor about sex

The Joy of Sex: Where Have All the Hairy Men Gone?

The Joy of Sex: Where Have All the Hairy Men Gone?

The new ultimate revised edition of The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort is finally here, thirty-seven years later. Here’s a review from The Washington Post. The reviewer is a woman who was not around for the first The Joy of Sex. Though she gives comparison of the new and old edition fair treatment, she can’t possibly

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

Genital Beautification: Plastic Surgery or Mutilation?

“It doesn’t look right,” said forty-two-year-old Carla Westman*. “Like I’m uneven, like one side is larger than the other and as I’ve gotten older, I think one side is stretching.  Before I could close my legs and you couldn’t see anything but now one side peeks through just a tiny bit more than the

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How to Have the Best Sex of Your Life after Fifty

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Richard Burton's Kama Sutra Quest

Richard Burton's Kama Sutra Quest

One man's determination brought sexual enlightenment and the oldest sex manual in the world to Victorian England.

Sex in a Bad Economy

Sex in a Bad Economy

With the stock market in peril, big brother style bailouts, and thousands upon thousands of Americans losing their jobs and homes, finding a silver lining in this dismal situation is less probable than your yearly bonus.But a crazy thing happened when the entire world’s economy came tumbling down last month; people got their love thang

Western Sexual Mysticism

Western Sexual Mysticism

Few people know of the long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. These traditions, unlike Hindu and Buddhist forms of Tantra, which were often distorted, commodified, and trivialized upon transmission to the modern West, have remained largely untouched. This is because they were entirely unknown.

Why I'd Rather Sleep with an Old Guy

Why I'd Rather Sleep with an Old Guy

Rippling, hard muscles. Firm six pack. Tight, round butt. He undresses you hurriedly. Your pulse is racing. You open your eyes to see a chiseled twenty-five-year-old face with the look of fiery hunger burning in his eyes. He wants you desperately. You want him madly. Your kisses are delicious and wet and deep and full. Your passion builds. Your

Viagra y mas Viagra es lo que usan los jovenes

Viagra y mas Viagra es lo que usan los jovenes

 Para quienes se creyeron el ‘’Proyecto’’ de los Laboratorios esto es una fuerte sorpresa y hasta una desilusión, pero los jóvenes son los mas fuertes compradores de Viagra en todo el Mundo, aún por encima de las personas mayores de 45 años. La moda se extiende por los Colegios y las Universidades mas que como una’’bola

Soldiers

Soldiers

Thousands of troops have been injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The soldiers—most of them young men under 25—are vulnerable to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. But they don't just need physical and mental rehabilitation. Many deserve to learn how to regain a healthy sexuality. Is sex over? Injured vets want answers An