sex

Condoms and Teens

April 16, 2012

This post was inspired by my seventeen year old sister. I’ve been very open with her about sex and sexuality for a while now. She’s having a very different experience than I did at her age. When I was a teen, I had no actual experience; all the knowledge I had about sex and sexuality [...]

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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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Do you want to “Cop” a feel?: Fantasy Role-Play isn’t against the Law

March 25, 2011

Recently I was showing affection to my partner in a parking lot– get your mind out of the gutter, we were just kissing in public. As we were kissing a police cruiser drove up and parked next to our car. I was joking with my partner that we were going to get a ticket for [...]

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Safeword Role-Play (or Intro To S/M For The “Vanilla” Couple)

March 18, 2011

A girlfriend of mine (and fellow mother) related a story to me about a recent sexual encounter she recently had. **Explicit content** –  relatively speaking  :) She and her partner were having sex one evening.  The two of them proceeded to get a little rougher in their play than normal. It was at the point [...]

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A “Shout Out” to Middle America

October 6, 2010

Thank you to those of you that have been reading this blog. I am grateful for the feedback you give. In communicating with some of the people reading my blog, one friend writes “Most of the people between NYC and Malibu are rather prudish by the coast’s standards. I’d soften it a bit so Middle [...]

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My Kid Skipped The “Where did I come from?” Question!!!

September 24, 2010

My girls (We’ll call them Marcia & Cindy) know that I’m studying sex at school. Actually, when you Marcia tell it, she says her mom is “studying people’s bodies”, which I guess is age-appropriate. Anyway, I have a number of “school supplies” in my home and, because my focus is helping parents talk with their children [...]

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…with a Bullet

September 22, 2010

True Story.  This is how it all started: I’m in the bathroom one morning brushing my teeth. In walks my eight-year-old Marcia. She is bored because she’s already ready for school and she’s looking for something to pass the time. She absentmindedly opens a drawer where the hairbrushes are and sees my bullet vibrator (I [...]

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Introduction to The MamaSutra

September 21, 2010

So this is it. I’m blogging some of the crazy, hilarious, poignant and precocious conversations that I’ve been having with my eight- and six-year-old daughters and other parents, mostly mothers. Some of these conversations have been awkward, but all of them have been learning opportunities. Teaching moments if you will. To give you a little [...]

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