I’ve got another guest post for your reading enjoyment. Pleased as punch to introduce you to Mama K! (Cross-posted from moms in Babeland blog with the authors permission.) This post is about books and stories that help us to understand life, but that might not be so easy to digest. I remember falling in love [...]
I wasn’t raised with a religion… so I first learned about redemption via recycling PSA’s.The word had a very narrow definition associated with keeping streets clean and something about saving the planet. Minds like mine depend on metaphors for meaningful analysis, so for me, when the older definition of redemption started making appearances in the [...]
This post is written by another sex-positive parent, Julie Barr. Julie is a 42-yr-old mom of two sons, ages 13 and 8 years old. This post was originally published on the Good Vibrations magazine site and is cross posted with Julie’s permission. Last week I wrote about raising sex positive kids and touched on my dreams [...]
Read the full review here: http://www.sfbg.com/2013/01/30/starting-slow-and-ramping My favorite quote? Leaving the “get it up, get it in, get it off” mentality behind and moving into a receptive role can result in a new feeling of vulnerability. But men can expand the scope of what sex means to them by exploring the worldof prostate play. According to [...]
Check it out parents, how much do I love you? Recently I was asked to contribute some sexpert advice for Lovehoney.com on how to heat up your Valentine’s Day. This is what I said: “Parents, especially single parents, do not under estimate the erotic potential of a good sexting session. You can spell out your [...]
Forgive me if I’ve told you this story before. I’m halfway in to a bottle of old zin and reminiscing something fierce. When I was pregnant with my first baby, I went in to get the ultra sound that would tell us the sex. I wasn’t too concerned about it, I just wanted us both [...]
My 2013 looks about like this. No idea what’s going to happen next. It’s all very intense. I’m navel gazing, crystal gazing, searching for both the hidden meanings and the flags waving right in my face. This is what I know so far. I don’t want to work alone. I know for some people being [...]
Here is how I define high-quality sex education: 1. Enthusiastic consent is the primary focus of all sexual activity 2. All partners are seen as equally deserving of pleasure 3. Negotiations are based in non-violent communication 4. Dismantles unrealistic expectations of sexual performance 5. Acknowledges a spectrum of sexual preferences and sexual appetites 6. Provides [...]
Happy New Year! 2012 will go down as a year of extreme highs and lows. If your 2012 was mellow and consistent, take a moment to congratulate yourself for having enough shock absorbers in place to ride the quakes! You must have put in some work to create and sustain stability in such turbulent times. [...]
So I came of age in California during the 1990′s and we had some seriously awesome sex ed. By the age of 15 my entire peer group knew to use condoms to prevent pregnancy and stop the spread of HIV. Every teenager I came into contact with understood the importance of condom use. There was [...]
