This Couple Contacts Me From South America…
“…We know we need sex therapy, but there isn’t anyone in our country we can talk to,” read the email. “We’d like to speak with you by skype so you can help us fix our sex problems. Will you do this...
View Article32 Helpful Things You Can Learn From Porn
Pornography is not meant to be sex education. It’s fiction, period. Nevertheless, with the enforced ignorance of abstinence-only sex “education,” most families’ and couples’ discomfort discussing sex...
View ArticlePhilip Roth Retires, Undefeated
After 31 novels, Philip Roth has announced his retirement. With all due respect to the person who channeled Fifty Shades of Grey, Roth is America’s greatest sex writer. He covered sexuality in almost...
View ArticleHow Does Your Body Know What Feels “Sexy”?
Why does spanking (or holding hands, or oral sex, or masturbation, or gentle love-making) make one person feel alive, while it makes another person feel dreadful? Or to put it another way, when both...
View ArticleTen Things Humanists Need to Know About Sex
This weekend I spoke at the annual meeting of the American Humanist Association. I started by explaining why humanists need a better understanding of sex: 1. Some people are scared about sex, and are...
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