Sex and Parenting

Naughty Christmas Cookies? Is that Sacrilege?

January 5, 2012

This year was the first year in a long time that I made and decorated Sugar Cookies for the Holidays with my girls.  I used to bake a TON but pretty much gave up after needing to go gluten-free; This year I decided to give gluten-free baking a go (Spoiler Alert: Huge Success!).  My daughters [...]

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Sweet Transvestite from … Suburbia??

December 28, 2011

I recently wrote about Parental Displays of Affection.  In it, I talked about how we tend to desexualize our parents. A guy friend of mine was a big fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Actually he still is.  He told me he used to go to the late night shows with his friends in [...]

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Their First Banana Hammock

October 21, 2011

From time to time, my daughters and I check out new music on iTunes. Well, the other day, we started with looking to see what was new on the Top Charts. That day, the song that was number one on the Singles Chart for Music Videos was LMFAO’s “Sexy And I Know It”. In iTunes [...]

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PDA – Parental Displays of Affection

October 19, 2011

Once people become parents, a lot of us generally don’t allow ourselves to be sexual beings anymore.  Why is that? When we were young and as we grew up, some of us desexualized our own parents (and sometimes our siblings as well).  That is, we removed all aspects of thinking of them as being or [...]

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Self-Love Part 2: How Can Something So Good, Really Be So “Wrong”?

October 18, 2011

Ok, I have a confession to make. Writing the blog entry I did on Masturbation a year ago was so incredibly difficult for me. I realized before I hit send that I had bitten off all my fingernails and tugged at my eyelashes. What is up with THAT?  It really makes me wonder what my mom [...]

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If she’s not having fun, you have to stop

October 14, 2011

My training as a sexologist makes me aware of people, things, and situations around me that have a sexual component to them.  The latest is a situation that I’ve observed for a while now and I could not put my finger on it as to why it concerned me. Let me explain: I have a [...]

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Dating, Love, and Sex – A Triple Threat For Most Parents

September 14, 2011

Marcia, who is now in fourth grade, has a crush on a kid in her class!  And so it begins… If you are a parent, I’m sure you get more than a little nervous thinking about your children growing up and starting to date and falling in love. If you are like me, you probably [...]

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Sex and the Single Mother…and her Kids

August 24, 2011

There are lots of challenges to being a single mother; Dating when you have small children is one of them. I’m very protective of my girls, as I’m sure you are of your children, as well. I’ve started dating a new guy who I really like.  We’ve have been able to see each other often [...]

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Talk To Your Kids About Sex Before Someone Else Does

August 4, 2011

My kids get a bit confused when they hear stories about the lies we tell children about sex to “protect” them. They just don’t understand what the big deal is. A few months back, I was reading an article about sex (shocker, I know…). Marcia was looking over my shoulder at what I was reading [...]

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Are Men God’s Gift to Women? No, the Clitoris is.

July 27, 2011

Does anyone else find it odd that there is little or no discussion of the role of the clitoris in sex education in general? Does anyone (besides my sex educator friends and colleagues) know the extended physiology of the clitoral structure? See pic at right. Why is this? Do you know how utterly amazing the [...]

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