Out From Under

Remember that study which found that the average duration of — no, the “best” — North American sex was 13 minutes? With the majority of women saying three minutes was “adequate”?
Did you, like me, find that just a tad odd? Women, who have been trying for decades to get men to SLOW DOWN, are now [...]

Bathrooms, washrooms, toilets … they’re pretty utilitarian places. They have a primary function (excretion),  a secondary function (hygiene) and a few tertiary illicit ones (sex, drugs, and sundry god-knows-what’s, limited only by the creativity of humankind’s various depravities).
And once in a while they even extend to humour:

(No idea where this is, nor who took the [...]

According to a recently-published study, American and Canadians think the best sex lasts 15 - 20 minutes.
Gee, wow. A whole 20 minutes? Be still my heart.
Is this just me, or does that seem a bit … miserly? I mean, sure, there’s a good, solid place for good, solid meat-and-potatoes sex. No fuss, no muss, just [...]

Everyone is familiar with the works of Georgia O’Keeffe. We have one print in our home. My kids always liked it, and would speculate, as they do with all the abstract art in our home, just what it could be.
And the guesses were sweet, entertaining — and wrong. Then came the day when each of [...]

I had a group of teens in my home a while back for a birthday party. One girl, who’s in a theatre troup that gives sex and sexuality presentations in junior and senior high schools, was telling the group how a certain principal had not allowed them to present part of their show. “It was [...]

Vibrators are IN. Every savvy, independent modern woman has one or several, and sees no reason to hide that fact. Which is a good thing.
Though they’re a trendy sign of free, self-determined and autonomous female sexuality, vibrators and their ilk are nothing new. Back in the Victorian era, doctors would routinely bring women to “hysterical [...]

There was a time when flirting was a social skill. A required one. If you wanted to be included in the dinner parties of your social set, the ability to flirt was a prerequisite.
These days, flirting is a bit suspect. Flirting is the province of single people. Married/partnered people, so goes the common wisdom, do [...]

She’d been single for a couple of months. The air in the kitchen was thick with words and laughter as we prepared dinner. She paused in mid-sentence, and considered the carrot she was peeling for our salad.
“You know you’ve been single too long when a carrot makes you horny.”
You sure do — wholesome, bland, baby’s-first-food [...]